Builders cleans for new Broulee builds and beach-house renos
A lot of the building work we get called to in Broulee is people doing up the old fibro beach shacks into something they can live in year round or put on the holiday-let market. The block by the causeway gets knocked down, a new double-storey goes up facing the surf beach, and once the trades are off site someone has to get the plaster dust, silicone smears and paint flecks off everything before the owner or the first guests walk in. That's the job we do. A builders clean isn't a normal house clean. We're pulling sticker residue off brand new glass, wiping render dust out of window tracks and getting the fine grit off every sill, ledge and skirting in the place.
Because Broulee sits right on the coast, a new build here's usually heavy on glass and aluminium to make the most of the island and beach outlook. That's great to look at and a real job to hand over clean. Plaster dust mixed with the salt air sticks to new windows fast, so we don't just give the glass a quick once-over, we get the frames, the rubber seals and the tracks as well so the first proper southerly doesn't show up every mark the builders left behind.
Getting a holiday rental guest-ready straight off the tools
Broulee runs hard on short-stays around the island and the surf beach, and a fair few of our builders cleans here are owners trying to have a freshly finished place listed and booked before the summer rush. That changes how we work it. A handover clean on a place that's about to take paying guests has to be sharper than a clean where the owners are moving their own gear in, because the first review is brutal if there's grout haze in the new bathroom or a film of dust on the kitchen island.
We know the changeover season in Broulee better than most because we're already running turnovers around the island and down through Mossy Point and Tomakin all summer. So when a reno wraps in spring, we know the clock the owner is working to and we get the build clean done in time for them to start taking Christmas and Easter bookings. We treat that final builders clean as the photo-ready clean too, because the listing photos usually get shot the same week the trades finish.
The three stages, from rough to handover
On bigger Broulee jobs we work it in stages rather than turning up once at the end and being swamped. The rough clean happens while the trades are still coming and going, clearing the worst of the debris, offcuts and gib dust so the next crew isn't working in a mess. The detail clean comes once the fit-out is in, when we get into the cabinetry, the new appliances, the wet areas and all the edges where dust collects. Then the final clean lines up with the handover date, when the place has to be spotless for the owner, the agent or the first guests.
If you're only after the one final builders clean before handover, that's the most common booking we get in Broulee and we're happy to do just that. But on a full new build near the surf beach, staging it usually works out better and cheaper than leaving everything for one massive last day.
Salt air, sand and brand new finishes
The thing that catches a lot of owners out is how quickly a brand new Broulee place starts copping the coast before they have even moved in. New aluminium sliders facing the beach pick up salt almost straight away, and if there's still construction dust sitting in the tracks it turns into a gritty paste that's no fun to shift later. We clean it out properly at handover so the new joinery isn't wearing salt and plaster from day one.
Sand is the other one. Even on a fresh build, the trades walk beach sand and yard dirt through the place for weeks, and it works its way into new carpet and gets ground into freshly laid floors. On a build with new carpet going into the bedrooms we'll clean the carpet as part of the handover so it's genuinely clean underfoot, not just vacuumed over the top of builders grit. That matters more here than inland because the sand never really stops coming in once a Broulee house is lived in, so you want it starting from a properly clean baseline.
Renos and fit-outs around a town that's still being used
Plenty of the work isn't full new builds but renos and fit-outs on places people are halfway living in, or holiday homes that get a bathroom or kitchen done in the quiet months. Those jobs are fiddly because the dust and silicone offcuts spread well past the room being worked on, and the owner wants the rest of the house back to normal, not coated in fine plaster. We seal off and clean the work zone hard, then go through the connecting rooms so the whole place feels finished, not just the new bit.
We also do the smaller commercial fit-outs that pop up around Broulee, a new shopfront or a refreshed holiday-let block, getting the building dust and paint off before the doors open. Because we run the Broulee, Mossy Point and Tomakin loop as one trip, we can usually fit a fit-out clean in without a big wait or a travel surcharge dragging the price up.
Local team, insured, and we stand behind it
Capital Coastal Cleaning is a small Indigenous-owned team out of Batemans Bay, just up the road. It is Tyson, Shanice and Lisa doing the actual work, not a rotating crew of subbies, and we're police-checked and fully insured, which matters on a building site where you're the last ones in before handover. We use low-tox products, so a brand new home isn't reeking of harsh chemicals when the owner or the first guests arrive.
We're open seven days, which suits building handovers because they never seem to land on a convenient weekday. If you're working to a settlement or a guest check-in date, give us a call on 0479 184 498 and we'll line the clean up to the day the trades are off site.
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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.
