After builders cleaning in Merton

Merton asks for building work to stay within 8am to 6pm on weekdays and 8am to 1pm on Saturdays, with none on Sundays or bank holidays. The noisy last jobs, sanding the floor or cutting the worktop, fall inside those hours, and the crew comes once they are done and the trades have gone.

The Wimbledon Championships change the plan in SW19 for a fortnight each summer. Each year the council publishes road-by-road event restrictions (dates on the council site): no-parking roads, permit-only roads and suspended bays. Skip licences near the event can be refused or time-limited too. If your works finish around then, book the clean for the week after, or check your road on the council's list before you pick a date.

The crew does not take away rubble, offcuts or old fittings. That belongs with the builder or a licensed waste carrier, and Merton reminds anyone hiring a skip that the firm must be registered with the Environment Agency and that whoever produced the waste has a duty of care for it.

Residents doing small jobs themselves can use Garth Road household reuse and recycling centre in Morden. It is for Merton residents only and cars must book. It takes plasterboard and dry paint tins, but limits hardcore, rubble and soil to six 80-litre bags per vehicle every six months, and refuses commercial waste, asbestos and liquid paint. A booked van can bring up to 250kg over six months, on weekdays from 8.30am to 1.30pm or Saturdays from 9am to noon. A builder's van full of rubble is commercial waste, so it will not get in.

What the crew deals with is the residue: construction dust cleaning on every ledge, then paint spots on floors and smears on new wall tiles, lifted where they will come off.

Merton's conservation areas run from Bathgate Road to Wool Road and include Wimbledon Village, Wimbledon North, John Innes Merton Park and Cricket Green in Mitcham; Article 4 directions in parts of them date from 1986, 1990 and 2007. John Innes Merton Park, a garden suburb whose roads were laid out in 1870 and 1871, has Article 4 directions, so original doors and windows tend to stay and the crew treats them gently. The older houses of Wimbledon (SW19) need the same care; the inter-war terraces of builders cleans in Motspur Park, laid out as short blocks of four, have plainer detail.

Converting a family house into a small HMO now needs planning permission anywhere in the borough: seven wards were covered in November 2022 and the other 13 from 24 March 2026.

The biggest building programme is Clarion's rebuild of the Eastfields, Ravensbury and High Path estates, about 3,300 homes over 15 years; Merton approved up to 2,272 homes for High Path's final phases in June 2023. Morden's town centre regeneration is allocated 1,822 homes in the Local Plan, and the London Plan gives the Wimbledon, Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon area room for 5,000. Eastfields sits in Mitcham. New flats on those sites will need handover cleans: kitchen and bathroom cleaning, labels off the glass and the dust out of every unit.