Post-construction cleaning with JAS starts at $650. That figure covers the first 1,000 sq ft; above it the rate is $0.55 per square foot. So a 1,200 sq ft condo remodel lands around $760 and an 1,800 sq ft house around $1,090 — arithmetic on published figures, then confirmed by a reviewed quote before anything is scheduled.
Almost every answer to this question is a national average with no formula behind it, which stops helping the moment your job is bigger or dustier than average. Here is the formula, what it buys, and what decides whether one visit finishes the job.
The published formula
The floor is $650 and it covers the first 1,000 sq ft — published on our post-construction cleaning in Miami page. The other half of the formula, $0.55 per square foot above those first 1,000, is published on our post-construction quote page. Run through a calculator:
- 1,200 sq ft · $650 + 200 × $0.55 · about $760
- 1,800 sq ft · $650 + 800 × $0.55 · about $1,090
- 2,600 sq ft · $650 + 1,600 × $0.55 · about $1,530
Those are published figures put through a calculator, not quotes. Post-construction is a reviewed-quote service: you send the details and we confirm the exact scope and price in writing before we schedule. Nothing is charged at booking, and we invoice after each completed visit.
Why it costs more than a deep clean
$650 against the $375 a deep clean starts at is $275 — subtraction on two published starting prices — and the gap is not a surcharge for the word “construction”. It is a different substance. Household grime is greasy and local: cabinet faces, grout, around the stove. Drywall dust is fine, dry and everywhere at once — window tracks, door hinges, switch plates, cabinet interiors, light fixtures and air vents, every one of them on the post-construction checklist. Dry, it moves; damp, it turns to paste. Surfaces get worked repeatedly rather than wiped once.
Height is the other half. Ceiling height matters more here than on any other clean: high fixtures, ceiling fans and shelf tops collect construction dust and need ladder work to detail properly. That is hours, not product. The full contrast with a deep clean is in how much a deep cleaning costs.
“Square footage sets the starting point. The dust level decides the hours.”
What actually moves your number
Size sets the baseline: square footage, rooms and bathrooms, and how much of the home the renovation actually touched. Condition is the bigger swing — a cosmetic refresh leaves a fraction of the dust of a drywall-heavy gut renovation. Access and timing close it out: elevator reservations and parking in condo towers, empty space or furnished, one final pass or a first clean plus a lighter follow-up.
Send those details with the request. A quote that never asked about your ceiling height, or about the twenty-second floor with its two-hour elevator window, is a quote that will change at the door.
What Miami does to a renovation clean
The building has rules, and they are part of the price
Much of Miami’s post-construction work happens inside towers. Condo build-outs and kitchen refits in Brickell and Miami Beach come with elevator reservations and front-desk rules: vendors registered at the desk, a certificate of insurance on file before a crew passes the lobby, the service elevator assigned by reservation and time slot, quiet hours on top. A crew arriving with ladders, drop cloths and vacuums turns a two-hour freight-elevator window into a real scheduling constraint.
What changes is who handles that paperwork. JAS carries $2,000,000 general liability with every cleaner background-checked; the certificate is requested by email with “COI” in the subject, and most return within 2 business hours. The building-by-building rules live in our apartment and condo guide.
The A/C never stops, so neither does the dust
Air handlers run twelve months a year here. That is why air vents are a line on the post-construction checklist and not an afterthought: whatever settled in and around the returns during the work has an obvious route back into the finished rooms the first time the system runs again. It is also the best argument for a second pass, which does not repeat the first — it collects what the system redistributed.
Humidity, salt air, and an open window
Renovation finishing happens with the windows and sliders open — paint, adhesive, sealant. In Miami that means freshly installed tracks and sills collect what is outside while the work is still curing: pollen with no off-season here, and near the water the salt film that shows up on slider glass and metal hardware. So sequence matters: the final clean belongs after the trades leave and the place is closed up, not the afternoon the painter is still airing it out.
The hurricane calendar
The calendar that governs here is June through November, not spring. If your punch list wraps just ahead of it, get the final clean in before the first storm-prep weekend: a shuttered, sealed house has nowhere to send whatever is still airborne, and it lands on the surfaces you just had detailed.
What it does not cover, and what the site needs
Bulk debris — lumber offcuts, drywall sheets, packaging, old fixtures — is the contractor’s haul-away. We take the site from broom-swept to finished. Beyond that the site needs construction finished and trades off site, working power and water, and safe access: a key, a lockbox code, or an on-site contact; in a condo, the elevator reservation and front-desk requirements sorted in advance. We clean finished spaces, not active job sites — and that is not fine print, it is what makes the price mean anything.
When to book it
Once the trades are done, bulk debris is out, and the dust has had a day or so to settle. Booking typically runs on a 24–48 hour lead time, so request your time as the punch list wraps up: the clean lands right before the walkthrough, the photos, or the move-in. And if the property is empty because someone is moving rather than because it was renovated, that is move-in / out cleaning, starting at $450.
Quick answers
How much is post-construction cleaning per square foot?
The published floor of $650 covers the first 1,000 sq ft; above that the published rate is $0.55 per square foot. On a small job the per-square-foot framing misleads, because the floor is the whole price: a 900 sq ft condo is $650, and that money buys hours in tracks, vents, hinges and cabinet interiors rather than floor area.
Do you haul away the construction debris?
Bulk debris — lumber offcuts, drywall sheets, packaging, old fixtures — is the contractor's haul-away. We take the site from broom-swept to finished: the fine dust, light debris and residue left on surfaces after the trades clear out. If bulk material is still on site, we will ask you to have it removed before we schedule.
Will one visit be enough after a gut renovation?
It depends on the dust level. After drywall-heavy work, airborne dust keeps settling for a day or two, so some clients add a lighter follow-up pass once it lands. We flag that in the reviewed quote instead of discovering it on site, so plan for the possibility on any job where a wall came down.
How far ahead do I book, and what if the contractor runs late?
Booking typically runs on a 24–48 hour lead time, so request your slot as the punch list wraps up. Nothing is charged at booking and we invoice after each completed visit; cancellation is free up to 24 hours before and $25 inside 24 hours — worth knowing on a job whose finish date can slide a day. Eligible completed visits come with a CleanCheck report.
The short version
$650 for the first 1,000 sq ft, then $0.55 per square foot, with a reviewed quote confirming scope and price before anything is scheduled. The number is made of hours, and after a renovation the hours live in tracks, vents, hinges, cabinet interiors and everything that needs a ladder. In Miami, add your building’s elevator window and the A/C that will redistribute whatever gets left behind.
This guide is part of the JAS operating playbook — written to answer in public the question the rest of the industry prefers to answer on a phone call.