It does not include hauling your renovation away. Bulk debris — lumber offcuts, drywall sheets, packaging, old fixtures — is your contractor’s haul-away, not the cleaning’s. It is also not repair work, not remediation, and not a second visit by default. What it is: a fine-dust pass over a finished space, item by published item.
This is worth reading before you sign something rather than after. Most disappointment following a renovation is not a crew that skipped something; it is two lists that were never held up against each other — your contractor’s and the cleaner’s. So here is ours read backwards: what falls outside the visit, and whose job each excluded thing actually is.
The rule underneath every exclusion
Our post-construction cleaning in Miami page publishes a readiness list before it publishes anything else: construction finished and trades off site, bulk debris removed, working power and water, and safe access — a key, lockbox code, or an on-site contact. Then one sentence that settles everything else: we clean finished spaces, not active job sites. Nearly every exclusion below is that sentence applied to something specific. If a thing is keeping the space from being finished, that thing is not in the visit. What is in it, item by item, is covered in what post-construction cleaning is.
Debris: what a truck takes, and what a vacuum takes
The split is published and it has no fine print: 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’ll ask you to have it removed before we schedule.
The line is drawn by the work itself. Lifting dust off a surface and carrying an old tub down a service elevator are two jobs with two different vehicles, and pricing them as one is the fastest way for a quote to stop meaning anything. So we ask for the bulk material to be gone before the date is set, rather than discovering it on the morning of the visit.
Read the checklist nouns — that is where the scope ends
The published checklist runs to thirteen items and each one is worded precisely. It rewards a literal reading, because the gap is almost never between what the crew did and what it was supposed to do — it is between the noun on the list and the bigger noun the reader heard.
- Air vent covers — the cover — the grille and what surrounds it. Not the duct behind it, which is another trade with its own equipment.
- Window sills + tracks — the sill and the track, where sanding dust piles up. Exterior glass above the ground floor is its own trade.
- Grout spot-treatment — spot-treatment on grout. Not sealing new grout, which is a finish step your tile installer owns.
- Under furniture (movable) — movable. Built-ins, mounted panels and anything that has to be unbolted stay exactly where they are.
- Inside cabinet faces — cabinetry wiped inside and out. Not unpacking, not lining shelves, not putting your kitchen away.
- Baseboards hand-wiped · Door + frame edges — wiped. Paint that lifts when the dust comes off was a paint problem before anyone arrived, and touching it up is the painter’s.
And something you notice reading all thirteen together: every one of them names an interior surface. A renovation clean, as published, is an interior list.
“An honest checklist reads the same forwards and backwards. If reading it backwards surprises you, it was never a checklist — it was a brochure.”
Repairs, the punch list, and the trades that own them
A caulk line that skinned over wrong, a paint touch-up, a door that binds, a switch plate that never went back on: those are punch-list items, and the punch list belongs to the people who built the thing. Which pass sits in whose contract is a question of its own, and we broke it down in the three phases of post-construction cleaning. The only honest thing a cleaning crew can do with a punch-list item is leave it alone.
Remediation is not on the list, and it is not a close call
A cleaning visit is not remediation, and no serious company should let you believe otherwise. Our Terms put it plainly: we reserve the right to refuse or stop service where conditions are unsafe for our team — such as mold, infestation, biohazards, or abusive behavior. And if we stop early for safety, a partial refund applies for the unworked portion. Renovations in Miami open walls, and sometimes what is behind one is the reason the renovation happened. If your project uncovered something that has to be treated before anything gets cleaned, the clean waits for the trade that treats it.
For the same reason we make no claim about what a product kills. The only honest source on a product is its label: that is where what it is approved for, and how to use it, is actually written. We talk about what is visible — dust, film, residue — because that is what a cleaning visit can show you.
What Miami adds to the not-included column
The building’s arrangements are yours; the certificate is ours
The service page asks you to have any elevator reservation or front-desk requirements sorted in advance. Booking the service elevator, holding the loading window and clearing quiet hours sit between you and the building: a cleaning visit does not include negotiating with a front desk. What we do hand over is the vendor file. Our insurance page publishes it: $2,000,000 general liability coverage · every cleaner background-checked, with a certificate of insurance available on request — email bookings@jascleaning.com with your subject line “COI” and the entity name, and most certificates are returned within 2 business hours.
Power and water are not optional, and in a tower they are not yours
The readiness list asks for working power and water, and on a condo build-out that is often the building’s calendar rather than yours: a scheduled riser shutoff, or a temporary construction feed nobody has switched over yet, leaves a unit that looks finished and cannot be cleaned that day. Worth confirming before you pick a date rather than after.
The A/C runs here nearly all year — and the checklist stops at the grille
In Miami the air handler barely rests, so sanding dust travels toward the returns and settles on the grilles. The published item is “air vent covers”, and it means the covers. What is inside the ductwork is another trade’s work, and a cleaning company that implies otherwise is selling you something it cannot show you.
Hurricane season can move the date, and that is not a cancellation
June through November, weather is a calendar fact here, and the Terms write it down: we may need to reschedule for weather, safety, or staffing reasons — we will tell you as soon as we know, and you never pay a fee for a reschedule we initiate. A storm week does not end up on your invoice; it ends up on the calendar.
The second pass is a choice, not a default
One visit is the default, and the service page says exactly when it is not enough: a light cosmetic remodel is usually one detailed visit; 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. That is flagged in the reviewed quote so there are no surprises. Put backwards, which is how this page reads: the follow-up pass is included when you scoped it, and not included when you did not.
The reverse is written down too. If the scope on arrival is materially different — additional rooms, or heavy build-up — we re-quote with you before doing extra work, never silently. So a post-construction visit does not include quietly absorbing a bigger job, and it does not include quietly billing you for one either. Scope is confirmed by reviewed quote before scheduling, starting at $650 for the first 1,000 sq ft.
Quick answers
Do cleaners remove construction debris?
Not the bulk of it. Lumber offcuts, drywall sheets, packaging and old fixtures are the contractor's haul-away — that is published on our post-construction page, and if bulk material is still on site we will ask you to have it removed before we schedule. What leaves with us is the fine dust, light debris, and residue left on surfaces after the trades clear out. Two different jobs, and two different vehicles.
Will you clean the inside of my air ducts after a renovation?
No. The published checklist item is "Air vent covers", and it means the covers — the grille and the surfaces around it, which is where renovation dust lands and where you can see it. Duct interiors are another trade’s work with its own equipment. In Miami, where the air handler runs close to year-round, that is worth being precise about instead of vague.
Isn't the final clean already inside what my contractor charged me?
Sometimes, and sometimes only the rough clean is. That question belongs to your construction contract rather than to us: the trade counts three passes and two honest bids can count them differently. Read your scope of work for the words "final clean" and "broom clean" — they are not the same promise, and the gap between them is exactly what people end up hiring separately.
What happens if the job isn't finished on the day of the clean?
We would rather move the date than clean around a working trade, which is why the readiness list is published in advance: construction finished and trades off site, bulk debris removed, working power and water, and safe access. If the scope on arrival is materially different from what you told us, our Terms say we re-quote with you before doing extra work, never silently — and if we have to stop early for safety, a partial refund applies for the unworked portion.
The short version
Outside the visit: bulk debris, repairs and punch-list work, remediation, duct interiors, exterior glass at height, sealing new grout, moving anything fixed in place, putting your cabinets away, your building’s arrangements, and — unless you scoped it — the second pass. Inside it: fine dust on a finished space, with the published checklist read literally. If you want one rule to carry: while something is keeping the space from being finished, it is not a cleaning job yet.
This guide is part of the JAS operating playbook — written backwards on purpose, because the list of what we do not do is the one that prevents surprises.