cleanliness of your home when handed over...

totally unacceptable

Personally, I would hope that the house is construction clean. But hta, i mean that a reasonalbe effort has been made. I say that because peoples definition of cleanliness changes. Things like paint on tiles, bricks cleaned, rubble removed, plaster dust removed should all be cleaned.

Things like dirty windows (outside that is) and a little bit of dust cannot always be prevented, subject to surrounding construction. We saw the cleans arrive when we left, and tld them not to bother cleaning the outside windows as they would be worse (dust in our area at the time was shocking).

We went through the house and vaccuumed, cleaned shelves and mirrors again, because we wanted to do it to our standards before we moved furniture and clothing in.

Yes i understand that... i don't expect the house to be 100% clean - immaculate - but i would expect the floors to be swept, the sliding door/window tracks to be dirt free, etc.... it's just filthy the way they've left it

Congratulations on your handover Clath, I still think that the builders clean should be of a much higher standard -

I have a friend who is a builder, and once or twice he has got his wife to do the clean when he couldnt get the cleaners in time, and she worked all day getting the house perfect. He doesnt do handovers until the house is spotless...

Come on you builders, lift your game!

My SIL use to do new home cleans for all the major builders in Melbourne. They are treated appalling by the building companies and are paid a pittance. She was getting 50c a window that could take up to 45 mins to clean. The builders make a mess when the cleaners leave and often they are expected to come back and clean it up for no charge.

She had to fold it in because financially it wasnt worth it. Too many others always under cutting you and doing very poor cleans...it is the new home owner that pays the price. The cleaners are barely being paid award rates and this is why problems begin. For the sake of an extra $100 or so, we would all have much better cleaned homes.

Mrs B

Personally I'd expect it to be reasonable clean (rubbish removed, paint splatters removed etc) but we will either spend a day with the Dyson ourselves or pay someone to clean it top to bottom before we move in...

And for those who are going to wait till the flooring and carpeting are done before doing a clean, you might want to at least sweep down the floors before they come in, I remember reading (I'm sure it was on here) a few horror stories of carpet and flooring being laid over grit/sand and other bits of loose rubble which will make noises when walked on ....

Fiona

Brittany... you are so right!!!

Our handover inspector told us the house was cleaned that day, but i no for a fact that it wasn't. He * to my face, just like he did with other things while carrying out the inspection... he thought cause i'm a chick i wouldn't know anything... but he was so wrong!!! And he'll know it when it comes to next week's inspection... i'm gonna be sure to tell him!!!!!!!!!!!

joaninhac, you should request to have another cleaning done before accepting the hand over. That's what we did.

Becareful though, in our builder's acceptance form there's a clause saying "we confirmed there's no crack/scratches in all windows/basin/vanity/benchtop/shower screen.....". I complaint about this, as the house wasn't properly cleaned yet, how do we check and confirm if there's no scratches.

I just spent this weekend just gone cleaning everything in my house dusted the walls down , vacumed the concrete before the carpet went down, inside of cupboards skirts took me 5 hrs reckon id make a good builders c leaner

I now have a clean home to move into.