Builders cleans for the kind of building that happens at South Durras
Building in South Durras is its own thing. You're squeezed between Durras Lake, the beach and Murramarang National Park, so a lot of the work is knockdown-rebuilds or second-storey additions on old beach shacks rather than a flat estate block. By the time the builder hands over, the place has had months of plaster dust, paint overspray and silicone smeared on glass, and it's destined either for the short-stay pool or to be someone's lake-and-bush retreat.
A builders clean is the bit between the trades packing up and the keys changing hands. We come in after the last coat and fit-off and take the site from dusty shell to a home you can move guests or family into the same week. At Capital Coastal Cleaning we've done this across the Eurobodalla since 2023, and South Durras is part of our northern coastal run with no travel surcharge, even though it sits right at the far edge past North Durras.
Lake, beach and bush dust all at once, before you've even moved in
Most builders cleans deal with construction dust. A South Durras one deals with construction dust on top of the three things that already make this spot hard to keep clean: fine sand off the beach, salt carried up off the lake and the open water, and gritty bush dust off the national park. On a fresh build it's worse, because the site has been open to the weather for months with no screens and no seals while the trades came and went.
So when we do the final detail, we aren't just wiping off plaster. We get the brand-new window tracks, flyscreen channels and door seals genuinely clean and dry, because if grit and salt sit in there on handover day, the first southerly off the lake bakes it in and the new aluminium marks within weeks. On a place backing onto the park we also go over the deck framing and eaves, where leaf litter and dust collect and get missed in a rushed sweep.
Getting a new South Durras short-stay ready for its first guest
The short-stay scene here's strong, and a lot of new builds and big renos in South Durras are aimed straight at it. People build or extend specifically so the place can earn through the holiday periods, which changes what a builders clean needs to be. The owner wants to photograph it and have a guest walk in days later, so every finish has to look showroom, not just construction-clean.
We strip the silicone haze and adhesive off the new shower screens and splashbacks so the glass is properly clear, pull the stickers and film off appliances and windows, clean inside the new cabinetry and rangehood, and get the flooring sealed-clean rather than just swept. We polish out the paint flecks the painters left on tiles and tapware, and do the light fittings, switches and skirtings where fine dust hides. The goal is that the first guest, and the listing photos, see a finished home, not a tidied-up building site.
Built to a handover date, working around the trades
Builders work to a deadline and so do we. On a South Durras job we work back from your handover or first booking, and we're happy to come in stages, a rough clean to clear the rubble dust so the next trades can work, a detail clean as rooms are finished, and a final clean once the last fixture is in and the painters have gone. On a tight lake block with one access point, that staging matters, because you can't have ten people and a clean crew on site at once.
Because South Durras is right out past North Durras at the top of our run, we plan the day around the drive rather than darting back for a forgotten room. We would rather walk the site with you first, agree exactly what handover looks like, and knock it over in one proper visit. We're open seven days, so a weekend handover isn't a problem.
Carpet and floors, the right time to do it
New carpet and new hard floors both cop it during the back end of a build. Carpet cleaning is something owners around South Durras already book after the busy holiday stretches, and on a new build it's the same idea, you want the carpet lifted and reset before anyone really uses it, not after. We clean the new carpet to pull out the fine construction dust that vacuuming alone leaves behind, and do the final mop and detail on tiles, timber and vinyl once the dust-making trades are finished for good.
Sequencing is the trick. There's no point cleaning carpet while a chippy is still cutting architraves down the hall, so we slot the floors in as the last wet job, after the dust settles and before the styling for the photos arrives.
Local crew, low-tox products, and a guarantee where it counts
It's the same small local team on every South Durras job, Tyson, Shanice and Lisa, all police-checked and the business fully insured, so you know who is on your new site. We're Indigenous-owned and Batemans Bay based, with a 5.0 rating from 110 Google reviews, and we use low-tox products, which matters in a freshly built home already off-gassing from new paint, sealants and flooring. The last thing a new place needs is a wall of harsh chemical smell on top of that.
A builders clean itself isn't a bond clean, so it doesn't carry the end of lease bond-back guarantee, that one is for our exit cleans done to the REINSW standard with a free re-clean within 72 hours if the agent flags it. But plenty of South Durras owners build to rent, and when a tenant later moves on, we're the same crew you call for the end of lease. Either way you can reach us on 0479 184 498.
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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.
