Construction cleaning guide
How to Choose a Construction Cleaning Contractor
Before appointing a construction cleaning subcontractor, check insurance levels, whether operatives are employed and inducted, whether project-specific RAMS and COSHH information are provided, how the cleaner fits into your programme, and how quality is evidenced. Price matters, but a cleaner who cannot mobilise to your dates or pass a site audit will cost more than they save.
Insurance and accreditation
Ask for public liability and employers' liability certificates, and check the levels against your requirements. Many principal contractors require £10 million on both. Ask about waste carrier registration if waste removal is in scope.
Employed or agency labour?
Employed operatives can be inducted, trained and supervised consistently. Agency labour changes week to week, which shows in both quality and site safety.
RAMS, COSHH and site rules
Your cleaner should provide project-specific risk assessments and method statements, not generic templates, and COSHH information for every product used on site.
Programme fit
Ask how quickly they can mobilise, whether they can clean plot by plot, and how they handle a completion date moving. Cleaning is often the last trade, so it absorbs everyone else's delays.
Quality evidence
Ask how completion is recorded, whether photographic sign-off is available, and what happens when the site manager reports an issue.
References that match your work
A cleaner who has done domestic end of tenancy work is not automatically ready for a live infrastructure site. Ask for references from projects of a similar type and scale.
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