A contractor’s final sweep clears the debris you can see. What it leaves is drywall dust, which is fine enough to stay airborne for hours and settle into every vent, track and cabinet interior in the building. Homeowners across Arvada, Thornton and Littleton call us weeks after moving into a new build, puzzled that the place keeps getting dusty. It is not getting dusty. It was never finished.
Why Drywall Dust Is a Different Problem
Ordinary household dust is mostly fabric fibres and skin, and it settles where you can see it. Drywall dust is gypsum ground to a powder finer than flour. It stays suspended long after the work stops and settles into every horizontal surface and open cavity in the house.
That means it is not sitting on the floor waiting to be swept. It is in the supply vents, on top of door frames, inside the window tracks, in the cabinet and drawer interiors, and on the tops of the upper cabinets nobody can see. Run the furnace for the first time and the system pushes what is in the ducts straight back into the rooms — which is why a new build seems to re-dust itself.
What the Job Actually Covers
A post-construction clean works top down and starts with the dust that will fall later: light fixtures, fan blades, the tops of doors and frames, and vent covers. Vents come off and get cleaned rather than wiped around.
Then the interiors — every cabinet, drawer and closet, and inside the appliances. Window tracks and sills get vacuumed and then wet-cleaned. Paint overspray, adhesive residue and grout haze come off glass, tile and fixtures. Floors are done last and usually more than once, because the first pass lifts dust that then resettles.
Why We Will Not Quote It Instantly
Every other service we offer has a published price by square footage. Post-construction does not, and the reason is honest rather than commercial: square footage does not predict the work.
Two 2,500 square foot jobs can differ by many hours depending on how much overspray the painters left, whether the tile was sealed before the haze was removed, and how much debris is still on site. Pricing that instantly would mean padding every quote to cover the worst case, or under-quoting and coming back to renegotiate. We would rather hear the scope and give you a real number.
Book It Before the Furniture, Not After
The single biggest factor in how well this goes is timing. An empty house can be cleaned completely — every wall, every cabinet interior, the full floor area, the backs of closets.
Once furniture is in, perhaps a third of those surfaces are permanently out of reach, and the dust left behind them keeps circulating. If you are closing on a new build, the window between the builder handing over and the movers arriving is worth protecting even by a single day.
Remodels Need It Too
This is not only a new-construction service. A kitchen or bathroom remodel in an occupied home produces the same dust with nowhere to escape to — it travels through the whole house, not just the room with the plastic sheeting over the door.
For remodels we generally clean the work area and the rooms adjoining it, plus the return vents that have been pulling dust through the system for the duration of the job.
If you are finishing a build or a remodel anywhere in the Denver metro — Arvada, Thornton, Littleton, Aurora or the city itself — tell us the scope and we will quote the real job rather than a number picked off a square-footage table. Call (720) 677-8799 or send the details through raprocleaningservices.com.
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