Builders cleans for a town that builds for the holiday market
Tomakin sits at the mouth of the Tomaga River, between Broulee and Batemans Bay, and a fair chunk of the building work here's aimed squarely at the holiday-rental scene. People buy the old fibro beach shack near the water, knock it about or pull it down, and put up something with a second living area and a deck that sleeps eight over summer. Capital Coastal Cleaning gets called in for the bit at the end, the post-construction clean that turns a dusty handover into a place that's ready for guests or ready for the agent's photos.
A builders clean in Tomakin isn't the same job as a builders clean in a town full of permanent family homes. Here the deadline is usually a booking. The owner has a check-in date locked in, the trades have run a week or two over, and the place has to go from plaster dust to guest-ready with almost no gap. We work to the handover date you give us, not the one we'd prefer.
River-mouth dust and salt make the final clean harder than it looks
Tomakin homes cop sand and salt year-round, and that doesn't stop just because the place is a building site. Fine construction dust mixes with the salt that drifts in off the river mouth and the beach, and it settles into a film that smears rather than wipes off. New aluminium window frames, the sliding stackers that open onto the deck, and the big panes of glass that everyone wants facing the water all hold that film, and on a new build it's layered over silicone smears and the odd paint speck.
We do the glass and frames properly, not a quick once-over. That means the tracks where the sliders run, the rubber seals, the frame edges and the manufacturer stickers and labels that get left behind. On a coastal new build that glass is the whole point of the house, so it's the first thing anyone notices and the first thing we get right.
Rough, detail and final, timed to your handover
A proper builders clean runs in stages. The rough clean clears the heavy debris, the offcuts, the plaster lumps and the dust that hangs in the air so the next trades aren't working in a mess. The detail clean gets into the parts a hammer never touched, the inside of cupboards and the new kitchen drawers, light switches, skirtings, the top of every door. The final clean is the one that happens right before handover, once the last trade has packed up, so nothing new lands on a surface you've already cleaned.
On a Tomakin job we'll often line the final stage up tight against a changeover or a first booking. If the place is going straight onto the short-stay market, there's no point us finishing three days early and letting river dust resettle. We time the final pass to your date so the place is sharp when the guests or the photographer walk in.
Dust, paint, plaster and silicone, off every surface
The grind on a builders clean is the removal work. Plaster dust gets everywhere and it has to come off, not get pushed around. Paint splatter on tiles and tapware, silicone smears along the new shower screen and the splashback, sticker glue on the appliances, grout haze on the bathroom floor, all of it has to go before the place reads as finished. We use low-tox products through the whole job, which matters more than usual on a holiday let where the next people through are often a family with little kids who'll be barefoot on those floors within the week.
New bathrooms and kitchens get the most attention because that's where a new build either looks finished or doesn't. We detail the shower screens so they're clear, scrub the grout haze off the tiles, and get the silicone lines clean so the joinery looks like the showroom shot the owner was promised.
One trip for Tomakin, Mossy Point and Broulee
We run Tomakin, Mossy Point and Broulee as one loop, so if you've got a new build or a reno finishing here we can usually slot it in without the long-trip mucking about. That matters on a builders clean because the dates move. The waterproofer runs late, the benchtop gets delayed, the handover slips by three days, and a cleaner who is already working your end of the coast can shuffle with you instead of bumping you a fortnight.
Being across this stretch also means we know the kind of stock that goes up here. The new beach houses and the renovated shacks near the river and the surf beach are mostly built or done up to go onto the rental market, so we know to leave them genuinely guest-ready, not just builder-clean, with the floors done last so the first footprints are the guests'.
A local team, ready for the handover deadline
Capital Coastal Cleaning is a small local team, Tyson, Shanice and Lisa, based up the road in Batemans Bay and working the whole Eurobodalla coast. We're Indigenous-owned, police-checked and fully insured, which builders and owners both like to hear when they're handing over keys to a site near the end of a job. We started in 2023 and we hold a 5.0 from 110 Google reviews, and we're open seven days, which is what a builders clean often needs when the handover lands on a weekend.
If your Tomakin build or reno is coming up to handover and you need the dust gone and the place guest-ready, give us a call on 0479 184 498 and tell us your date. We'll work back from it.
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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.
