Post construction cleaning checklist

This scopes a post-construction clean before the crew arrives. Enter the floor area, the rooms and areas, the cleaning phase, the cleaners, the rate per cleaner and your crew's pace in square feet per cleaner-hour, and the page returns the checklist items for that phase, the cleaner-hours, the elapsed time with the crew, the labor cost and the cost per square foot. A rough clean after drywall, a final clean before handover and a touch-up after the punch list are three different jobs, and the page sizes each.

The phase decides the list

A rough clean removes construction debris, dust and stickers so the finishing trades can work; a final clean is every surface, fixture, window and floor to handover standard; a touch-up puts right what the punch list disturbed. The page counts the items per phase and adds the per-room items, because a final clean of a nine-room house is a longer list than a rough clean of the same shell.

Pace is yours, and it is the whole estimate

Square feet per cleaner-hour is the figure that turns area into hours, and it varies with the phase, the finish and the crew. Put in your crew's real pace for this phase rather than a rule of thumb, because the hours, the cost and the price all hang off it.

Cost per square foot is the number to quote against

General contractors and builders ask for a price per square foot for a final clean. The page prints your labor cost per square foot from your own rate and pace, so the price you quote sits on a number you can defend rather than on what the last builder paid.