From pre-rough through final clean and re-cleans, for general contractors, developers, property owners and property managers. What turns a completed build into a space that is ready for handover.
Post-construction cleaning is the last trade on site and the one the client actually sees. Elite Service Solutions handles construction clean up for general contractors, developers, property owners and property managers across Tampa Bay, from pre-rough through final clean, plus the re-cleans that decide whether a handover goes smoothly.
Debris clear-out before the finish trades start, so the next crew is working in a space that can actually be worked in.
After drywall, paint and mechanical, before finishes go in. Bulk debris, construction dust, and the surfaces that would otherwise trap it permanently.
The detail pass. Glass and frames, fixtures, millwork, hardware, restrooms, and floors brought to handover condition.
The re-clean after the punch walk. Settled dust, trade damage, and anything the walkthrough flagged. Scheduled as part of the job, not argued about after it.
Construction cleaning is a sequence, and compressing it into one visit at the end is the most common way a handover slips. A pre-rough clear-out lets the next trade work. A rough clean after drywall and paint removes the bulk debris and dust that would otherwise be sealed into the finishes. The final clean is the detail pass: glass, fixtures, frames, floors, and every surface the client will run a finger along.
Dust is the real problem on a final construction clean. It settles out of the air for days after the work stops, which is why a building signed off on Friday can look dusty again on Monday. The re-clean exists for that, and pricing it into the schedule up front is cheaper than arguing about it at walkthrough.
They sit at different points in the trade sequence and do different jobs. A rough clean happens after the messy trades finish, meaning drywall, paint and mechanical, and it removes bulk debris and construction dust before finishes are installed. That lets the next trades work on a clean substrate, so flooring bonds and paint does not trap grit. A final clean is the detail pass immediately before handover: glass, fixtures, frames, hardware, switch plates and floors brought to the condition the client will inspect. Order matters more than either pass on its own. A final clean done before the last trade leaves gets undone by that trade, and that is the single most common reason a handover slips. Most jobs also need a punch-list touch-up after inspection, quoted separately because its size cannot be known in advance.
Cost guides such as HomeGuide and Fixr put interior post-construction cleaning between roughly $0.15 and $0.60 per square foot, with the rough clean at the low end and the detail-heavy final clean at the top. Treat those as context rather than a quote. What actually moves the number is which phases you need, how much glass and millwork the finish schedule left behind, whether trades are still on site, and how hard the completion date is. We price per phase after seeing the drawings or the site, so the re-clean is in the schedule from the start instead of being argued about at handover. Call 727-245-0123 with your dates.
Whoever the construction contract says, and it is worth checking before anyone assumes. A general contractor normally owes the project debris removal and a broom-clean or rough-clean standard as part of the build. The detail pass that makes the space presentable — glass, fixtures, millwork and floors — is often outside that standard, and it belongs to the owner or the incoming tenant unless the contract names it. We take this work from both sides: general contractors bring us in as the last trade, and owners hire us directly when the build contract stopped at broom-clean. If the cleaning clause in your contract is one sentence long, that is usually where the gap is.
Construction dust stays airborne for days and keeps settling after the work stops. This is normal and it is exactly what the punch-list re-clean covers. Building one into the schedule is standard practice on any job with a real handover date.
As early in the schedule as you can. Crew size is the constraint on a fixed certificate-of-occupancy date, and a job booked a week out is easier to staff correctly than one booked the night before. Call 727-245-0123 with your projected dates even if they are still moving.
The buyer for new construction cleaning is usually a superintendent or project manager working to a certificate-of-occupancy date, not a facility manager with a monthly budget. So what matters is crew size on short notice, working around trades still on site, and hitting the date.
Most of this work sits in Riverview and along the U.S. 301 corridor. Two corridors under active widening, against thousands of housing starts a year, keeps producing newly completed buildings that need a final clean.
We clear the debris that belongs to the clean: packaging, dust, trade leavings and site rubbish. Structural demolition debris and anything requiring a licensed hauler is a separate scope, and we will say so up front instead of discovering it on site.
A finished building needs cleaning every night once it is occupied. Contractors who bring us in for construction cleanup often hand us to the incoming tenant or the property manager for the recurring janitorial contract. It is the easiest handover there is, because the crew already knows the building.
The trade uses several names for the same work, and all of them describe what this page covers. What changes a quote is the building, never the phrase.
