Hi, our renovation is finally done except for air cond which will be after CNY. Now my house is full of dust and despite been cleaning it for 2 days, it's still dusty Also, my floor still got white cement/plasters that drop on the floor and hardened on floor. How do I get these removed and also reduce the dust? Does the usual part time maid services we employed can get these done?

You can try a part time cleaner service I use. Good and honest. PM if you need the contact but it depends on where you are though. May not come to your place.

You just have to continue cleaning.

They can remove the plaster bits?

We're planning to move in soon but I'm sensitive to dust, so I'm looking for faster way to clear the dust. In fact when we're cleaning I have to wear mask to reduce the irritation to nose.

I heard there are some pro specially handle this kind of cleaning. Very expensive?

Hmm interesting to know also someone with contact for good cleaner please share

New house or newly renovated house take many round of cleaning. Is not few time cleaning it will be clean. May take few months.

Try doing a search. Recall a least 2 guys offering their cleaning services in this forum.
If want cheaper alternative, get the Indo maids to clean. Anyway, after major renovation where hacking work was involved, it needs to be clean a few times before it can be considered habitable.

Clean yourself...believe me, it is better than hire maid...although tired, you will feel happier

good luck

I've searched but not much topic on this, and no contacts too.

OK. did a quick search and these are what I found

Cleaning Service

Cleaning Service 2

Believe there could be a few others.....

Anyway, IMHO, after major reno work, will need a few rounds of cleaning. So, in my case, I used the part-time maids

I was lucky, ask my main contractor to clean first round which include remove most of the cement, and major scrapping. Than ask maid come in to clean the grills, toilets and floor.

After that, took us (my wife and me) 3 weekends to slowly clean all the toilets, scrap the small cement / grout out from the tiles, white plaster and also some other tiny stuff.

After than run my US maid for few times a week to have the floor sweep clean.

Is not 100%, but I would say 90% clean now.

go buy cement remover or tiles acid and clean it yourself... all you need is brush, scrapper, mop, sarung tangan and shoe..

Thanks, these links are helpful. Going to contact them tomorrow.

You have a good contractor... mine don't care at all.

Do we need to wipe the newly painted wall?

Why wipe the newly painted walls? You could stain them in the process. Just use a duster to get ride of the dust, if any

Somethings he is good, some he is not. But we bring everything up to discuss and I am not the very fussy type. I "F" him, he "F" me.

I got wipe the walls cause too dirty. My contractor starts the painting before carpentary works and plaster ceiling, causing the dirty walls. So far no peelings.

Can wipe, I wipe mine too. Dust still stick. Dust find all places to stick around. Even on the small edge.

If painted wall is light in colour, not noticeable. If wall is of darker colour and the cloth is not clean, the dust could stain the painted wall.

Depend on they type of paint.

I ask one of the cleaning services advertised in the forum..and it wasn't a job well done. The maids worked really slow, barely cleaning and scrubbing, and complaining about the dust all the time. U gotta sit there and supervise and ask them to do it again n again and I scrub along with them for 4 hours. Anyway it's still dusty. So I had to redo again by myself. So better save ur money, and do it urself bit by bit. I guarantee it'll be cleaner than what u paid for.

This post has been edited by @Adele: Jan 4 2012, 12:06 PM

i wonder if you do spray waters inside the house against the wall, floor and every where? i found that to absolutely clean the floor, must spray it with water and some detergent...else there is no way to totally remove the dust by just mopping..

At first plan to do that, but neighbour auntie told us she did that and regret. Her walls ended up with unremovable water stains especially near the floor part.

Floor is ok, but not wall and wooden door. What happen if water slip into plugs? go into wood and expand?

This is what I did for dust:

First sweep with a good broom to remove the larger particles. Do the whole house twice and in a systematic manner. The process should be in such a way that you do not track back to the same room again just to get to an un-swept area; i.e it should be in one direction. Next, use a powerful vacuum cleaner to go over the same surfaces to suck up all the smaller particles. Then go over the same surface again with a Japanese wiper sheet which is very effective in picking up the smallest particles. Change the wiper sheet when it gets dirty. Use both sides. When you see that the wiper sheet no longer changes colour easily, it is time to go to the next step. Lastly mop the same surface with a mop that has floor cleaning solution. Make sure that as you mop along, you change the moping solution when the water color changes. When the water is relatively clear, your surfaces is considered really clean. I keep my house in pristine condition using this technique twice a month.

Haha... My wall is painted with Nippon Satin Glo. I'm planning to use a new mop (damp) to wipe the wall first. Then, use it to mop the floor. Lazy me....

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Added on January 4, 2012, 10:42 pmWow... Very detail cleaning. I think need whole day to do that.

This post has been edited by JollySheep: Jan 4 2012, 10:42 PM

I try to clean my self, 6 hour non stop on a small floor area, my arm joint swallon and paint for months, until now.. Visit "tit tak" 3 times also no improvement.

Entire house you become real KingKong

It take time and patient.

yes indeed u don't splash water onto the wood, and don't do that on a new wall too. But for the floor, splashing water and detergent onto it is the most effective way.. On on of my wall, I don't know which type of paint my contractor used, it is very smooth and easy to clean with wet cloth so that's what we do to wipe off the dust from the wall.

guys, how abt those cement powder trapped at windows railtrack ? how u guys clean that area ? my windows railtrack trapped with some small cement stones and powder and i'm thinking to get a vacuum cleaner to get rid of it...but wonder whether the vacuum cleaner can sucks the small cement stone or not...anyone experiences this before ?