Builders cleans in our home town
Batemans Bay is where Capital Coastal Cleaning started, and a builders clean here's a job we know cold. When a new unit, a reno or a shop fit-out hits handover, the place looks finished but it isn't clean. There's plaster dust on every ledge, silicone smears on the new glass, paint flecks on the tiles, sticker glue on the windows and a fine grit through the whole build that a broom just pushes around. We come in after the trades and turn it from a building site into a place someone can move into or list, on the handover date you have to hit.
We're a small local crew, Tyson, Shanice and Lisa, started here in 2023, so when a builder or an owner in the Bay rings us we're usually only minutes from the site. That matters on a builders clean more than most jobs, because the clean is the last thing before keys change hands and the date doesn't move.
New units along Beach Road and the Promenade
A lot of the new building in the Bay is units and townhouses, and the addresses along Beach Road and around the Promenade are some of the ones we see go up and get handed over. A fresh unit clean is its own beast. The dust from cutting and sanding settles into the window tracks, the kitchen drawer runners, the top of the robes and the aircon vents, and it keeps drifting down for a day or two after the trades pack up. We work top down so we aren't re-dusting, wet-wipe every surface rather than spreading the fine stuff, and pull the new appliances out to get behind them.
Because these units sit right on the bay, the new aluminium window frames and the big glass sliders are the make-or-break. Builders glass comes with silicone overspray, plaster splatter and the haze off the cutting, and the first salt off the water will bond to all of that if it isn't stripped properly. We detail the glass and the frames and the tracks at handover so the place shows clean from the balcony, not smeared when the sun hits it.
Salt and the new glass at handover
Sitting right on the Clyde River and the bay means the new glass and aluminium on a finished build cop salt spray from day one. On a builders clean that's a bigger deal than people expect. If you leave construction silicone or plaster film on a new shower screen or a window and then salt settles over it, you get a cloudy bonded layer that a normal wipe won't touch later. We get the glass back to bare clean at handover, screens, sliders, frames and the window tracks where the grit and salt both collect, so the new place starts fresh instead of already looking weathered.
This is the same coastal problem we deal with on every Bay job, just at the worst possible moment for it, the first impression at handover. Getting it right at the builders clean stage saves the owner or the agent the cloudy-glass call a fortnight later.
Renos and fit-outs around the CBD
Not every builders clean is a brand new build. A good slice of our post-construction work in the Bay is renos in the older units and the family homes up behind the CBD toward Hanging Rock, plus the odd shop or cafe fit-out in town. A reno clean is messier than a new build because you're cleaning new work that sits next to the parts of the home people are still living in or moving back into. Dust travels well past the room that got done, so we seal off and clean the whole zone, not just where the chippy was.
On a fit-out we work to the trades schedule and the handover or opening date, do the rough clean once the big mess is out, then the detail and final clean so the space is ready to fit furniture or open the doors. We bring our own gear and low-tox products, which suits a job in an occupied home or a small business where you don't want harsh fumes hanging around after we leave.
Rough, detail and final to your date
We run a builders clean in the stages that actually match how a Bay site finishes. The rough clean comes first, once the bulk of the construction rubbish and the heavy debris is gone, to knock the place back so the last trades can work in a cleaner space. The detail clean is the slow one, where we get into the tracks, the skirting, the silicone lines, the appliance gaps, the sticker glue and the paint flecks, the spots a quick pass always misses. The final clean is the white-glove pass on the handover date, glass, floors, surfaces and fittings, so it's presentation-ready.
You don't have to book all three. Plenty of builders in the Bay just want the final clean before handover, and owners doing a small reno often want the one detail and final. Tell us where the job is up to and what the handover date is, and we'll tell you straight which stages it needs and whether we can hit the date.
Built to rent out or list straight away
The Bay runs hot on holiday lets and rentals, so a fair few of the new builds and renos we clean are headed straight onto Airbnb or into the rental market the week they're finished. That changes what a builders clean needs to be. A place that's about to take guests or go to a first rental inspection can't have a single ledge of plaster dust or a smeared slider, because the first photos and the first walk-through set the tone. We clean a new short-stay or rental to a move-in finish, not just a building-site tidy-up.
If the new place is going up as a holiday let near the water, we can also slot straight into the changeover routine afterwards, since fast guest turnovers are already a big part of our week here. And if it's a new rental, the same crew can come back for the end of lease cleans down the track, done to the REINSW exit standard and backed by our bond-back guarantee, a free re-clean within 72 hours if the agent flags it.
How we leave the site
When we walk off a builders clean in the Bay the dust is gone for good, not just moved, the new glass and frames are stripped back to clean and ready for the salt air, the floors are done, the silicone and paint and sticker glue are off, and the place is ready to hand over, photograph, list or move into. We're police-checked, fully insured and hold a 5.0 from 110 Google reviews, so a builder or an agent can hand us the keys to an empty new build without a second thought.
We're open 7 days, which suits handover dates that land on a weekend. Give us a call on 0479 184 498 with the address and the handover date, and being based right here in the Bay we'll tell you whether we can get the site clean and presentation-ready in time.
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Capital Coastal Cleaning is owner-run by Tyson, who started the business here in Batemans Bay in 2023. A small, police-checked local team, the same faces each visit, and our name on every job, from Durras to Moruya.
