After builders cleaning in Swinton, M27

Loft and extension jobs often happen with the family still living in the house, so the dust reaches rooms the builders never touched: the sofa, the beds, the clothes rails, the tops of the wardrobes. The crew cleans every hard surface it can reach in every room, but it does not move personal belongings, food or crockery, so clear the surfaces and cupboards you want cleaned inside, and keep the bedroom doors you want left alone shut.

A sofa that sat under the dust for weeks is a separate job: sofas and mattresses after the works can be booked at the same visit, from £57 for a two-seat sofa. Carpets are vacuumed as part of the builders clean. A new kitchen or bathroom gets the most time, with inside the units, the splashback, the taps and the grout lines all done; the page on kitchen and bathroom cleaning has the list.

A 3-bed semi after a loft conversion or a new kitchen usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours: £332 all in, which is £30 per cleaner-hour plus £32 for equipment and detergents. An older 3-bed terrace that has been gutted needs 3 cleaners for 5 hours, £482, and a 4-bed semi with a dormer loft and a rear extension 3 cleaners for 4 hours, £392. Our prices show the full table.

The builder clears the rubble and the old plasterboard. Lumns Lane in Clifton takes plasterboard that residents have pulled out of their own homes, but plasterboard removed by a paid tradesperson is business waste there and at every other centre. Swinton and Wardley is covered by Salford's second small-HMO Article 4 Direction, so turning a house into a shared let needs planning permission. Permit fees and parking rules for the city are on after builders cleaning in Salford. Crews also cover Worsley (M28) to the west and Eccles to the south, and to the east Prestwich, which is in Bury and follows Bury Council's rules.