Post-renovation and builders cleaning in Melbourne

From the state the trades left it in to dust-free, presentable and ready to occupy or hand over.

Photos are the fastest route to a number. Larger builds and handovers get a site inspection instead.

A renovated Melbourne kitchen on handover day: marble island and splashback spotless, oak floors clean
The same kitchen mid-renovation: protective film on every surface, boxes and ladders through the room, painter still working
The same kitchen, the morning the trades left.
  • Family-runOwner-operated from Southbank, by the people who do the work
  • 7 days, 6am to 10pmWe work around trade schedules and handover dates
  • Quoted from photosSend images, get a written scope and a price
  • 5.0 on GoogleFrom 14 reviews, as at 3 August 2026

Three different jobs that look the same from the outside

A homeowner moving back in, a renovator handing a project to a client, and a site manager chasing a certificate of occupancy all need dust gone. What they need scheduled, documented and signed off is not the same thing.

A Melbourne apartment mid-renovation, furniture under dust sheets and the skyline through the windows

Homeowners

You’ve finished the renovation and you want your house back

The trades are out, the mess is not. We clear the fine dust that keeps reappearing, get the kitchen and bathrooms usable, and leave the place fit to move furniture back into.

Post-Renovation Cleaning
A finished new-build kitchen and living area after the builders clean, floors and island spotless

Renovators and interior professionals

You need the clean to match the standard of your work

Your client sees the finish, not the framing. We do the detailed final clean that makes a completed build or extension photograph and present the way it should, on the date you need it.

After-Builders Cleaning
A completed two-storey new build in Melbourne with a tipper truck out the front on handover clean day

Builders, developers and site managers

You need it clean for handover, on the day it’s booked

Rough clean, final clean and touch-up before the client walkthrough. We work to your programme, in stages if the trades are still moving through.

Builders & Handover Cleaning

The parts of a renovation clean that get skipped

Anyone can wipe a bench. Renovation dust is finer, it is abrasive, it travels, and it comes back after a single pass. This is the list we actually work through.

Room by room first, then the detail work nobody looks at until the light hits it.

Kitchens

Inside every cupboard and drawer, splashback, rangehood exterior, appliance exteriors, sink and tapware.

Bathrooms and laundries

Grout haze, silicone smears, screens, tiles, tapware and exhaust fan covers.

Windows and glass

Internal glass, frames, sills and the tracks where debris collects.

Floors

Vacuum then wash, with the edges and corners done by hand rather than by machine.

Doors, frames and skirting

Including the top edges nobody looks at until the light hits them.

Fixtures and fittings

Light fittings, switches, power points, vents, handles and rails.

Residue removal

Paint spots, plaster, adhesive, stickers and labels on new fixtures.

Hard-to-reach areas

High ledges, above cabinetry, behind doors and inside wardrobes.

Dust settles twice.

On a heavy renovation clean the airborne dust drops again after the first pass. Our scope allows for a return over the finished surfaces, which is why a job quoted honestly takes longer than most people expect.

Six steps, and you know where you stand after step three

Scope and price in writing before anything is booked. Nothing open-ended once you have accepted the quote.

The Renovation Cleaning team working through the kitchen and living area of a new build
Our team working the ground floor of a new build, top to bottom.

See the full process

  1. Step 1

    Send photos

    Five or six images of the worst areas, plus a rough idea of size and how many levels. Two minutes on your phone.

  2. Step 2

    We assess the scope

    We look at the state of the site, what the trades have left behind and what the surfaces will need. We’ll tell you if it’s more than the photos suggest.

  3. Step 3

    Quote or inspection

    Straightforward jobs get a written quote. Larger builds, staged work and commercial handovers get a site inspection first.

  4. Step 4

    Schedule

    We book to your date, whether that is the move-in, the handover or the client walkthrough, and confirm access, power, water and parking before the day.

  5. Step 5

    Clean

    We work the site in order, top to bottom, wet areas last, so we’re not carrying dust back into rooms we’ve finished.

  6. Step 6

    Walkthrough

    We walk the property with you or your site contact before we pack up. Anything raised gets fixed there and then.

Anyone can wipe a bench.

Renovation dust is finer than household dust, it travels through the whole house, and it settles twice.

What we can actually prove

Our own job, our own photos. The same kitchen before we arrived and on handover day. Scroll to wipe it clean, or drag the line.

Kitchen mid-renovation: island bench and splashback under protective film, boxes and ladders through the room, painter still working
The same kitchen finished and cleaned: marble island and splashback spotless, oak floors clean, ready to move back in
BeforeA kitchen renovation in Melbourne. Film off, residue gone, detailed to move-in standard.After

Six things you can check

We would rather give you six things you can check than a page of adjectives.

A family business, not a call centre
Renovation Cleaning is run by Mimmo and Nancy from Southbank, with more than ten years in the cleaning industry behind it. When you ring the number on this page you are speaking to the people responsible for the job, not a booking service that subcontracts it out.
You check the work before we leave
Our Final Walkthrough Guarantee: half an hour before we finish, we walk the property with you room by room and fix anything that isn’t right, on the spot. Nothing is left to a phone call the next day.
Insured for $10 million
We carry $10 million public liability insurance, and a certificate of currency is available on request. Ask for it with your quote.
5.0 on Google, from 14 reviews
Fourteen reviews, every one of them five stars, verified 3 August 2026. It is a small number and we would rather say so than round it up. See our project record.
We scope before we price
A renovation clean quoted without seeing the site is a guess, and guesses get revised upwards on the day. Photos or an inspection come first, every time.
We work when the site is free
Seven days a week, 6:00am to 10:00pm. On live sites that usually means starting before the trades or working the evening before a handover.

Inclusions, exclusions, timing and payment

The disputes in this trade almost always come from one of these four things being assumed rather than agreed. Here is where we stand by default; your written quote confirms the version that applies to your job.

ItemStandard position
Included as standardDust removal throughout, internal glass, cupboards cleaned inside, bathrooms and kitchen detailed, floors vacuumed and washed, fixtures and fittings, doors, frames and skirting, residue removal from hard surfaces, rubbish generated by our own cleaning removed.
Optional extras, quoted on requestWindow cleaning (including exteriors and tracks), carpet steam cleaning, pressure cleaning of driveways and external surfaces, renovation rubbish and debris removal, oven interiors, tile and grout restoration. Ask for any of these when you send your photos and they go on the same quote.
Not includedRepairs to damage caused by trades, and cleaning of areas still occupied by trades or their materials. Those we schedule as staged work instead.
TimingQuoted in hours or by scope. A renovated kitchen and bathroom typically runs into a full day; a whole-home builders clean is usually multi-day and staged. We confirm the hours on your quote. We do not start an open-ended job.
AccessWe need site access for the booked window, working power and water, and the property clear of trades and their materials in the areas we’re cleaning. Where that isn’t possible we schedule in stages instead.
PaymentFull payment secures your booking. Prefer to split it? Pay 50% to book and the balance when the team arrives on the day. Card, bank transfer or cash. Your written quote confirms the amount before anything starts.

The Final Walkthrough Guarantee. Half an hour before we finish, we walk the property with you room by room. Anything missed, or not cleaned to standard and still cleanable, gets fixed on the spot. We don’t leave until it’s checked. That is the guarantee: you sign off on the clean while we’re still on site, not after we’ve gone.

What people ask before they book

How much does a post-renovation clean cost?

It depends on the size of the property, how many levels, how heavy the dust is and what residue the trades have left. That is why we quote from photos or an inspection rather than publishing a rate that would be wrong for most jobs. Send photos and you will have a scope and a price in writing.

Why can’t you give me a price over the phone?

We can give you a range once we understand the job, but a firm number without seeing the site is how people end up with a quote that changes on the day. Photos take two minutes and remove the guesswork for both of us.

Do I need to be there while you clean?

No. We only need access, power and water. We do ask that you or your site contact are available for the walkthrough at the end, in person or by phone with photos, so anything you want changed gets done before we leave.

The trades haven’t completely finished. Can you still come?

Yes, but we would schedule it as staged work rather than a final clean. Cleaning a room the trades will return to means paying to clean it twice. Tell us what is still outstanding and we will structure it around them.

How far in advance should I book?

As soon as you have a move-in or handover date, even if it might move. Renovation dates slip constantly and we would rather hold a window and adjust it than try to find you one at short notice.

Which areas of Melbourne do you cover?

We work across metropolitan Melbourne from our base in Southbank. See the areas we serve, and if your suburb is not listed, ring us, because it usually comes down to the size of the job rather than the postcode.

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