The furnace ran through drywall sanding, cutting and trim work with a builder’s filter in it. Everything that produced is sitting in ductwork the homeowner will keep for thirty years. We clear it before possession, on your schedule.
It is the most persistent assumption in new construction, and it is backwards. In our experience a first clean on a newer home routinely pulls out more material than a routine clean on a house three times its age.
The furnace gets commissioned well before the house is finished, because the trades need heat. From that point it runs — through drywall hanging and sanding, through flooring cuts, through trim and paint — with a thin builder’s filter fitted, which is closer to a screen door than a filter.
Every one of those weeks, the system is pulling gypsum dust, sawdust, silica and insulation fibres through the returns and depositing them along the ductwork. None of it is visible at final clean, because none of it is in the rooms. It is inside the walls, in the runs, and behind the diffuser faces that got wiped down on the way out.
The homeowner takes possession, runs the system properly for the first time in a finished house, and starts noticing dust on surfaces within weeks. Sometimes it is fine lint-coloured film; sometimes it is a visible puff from a register on the first hard start of the heating season.
They do not conclude that the ductwork needed cleaning. They conclude something is wrong with their new house. That becomes a warranty call, a site visit, and a conversation that costs more in time and goodwill than the clean would have.
This matters more here than in most markets. Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and the western and southwestern edges of Edmonton have been building continuously for two decades, and a great deal of that stock is exactly the age where a never-cleaned system starts making itself known. If your community still has active lots, add ongoing site dust blowing in every time a door opens.
We are not going to tell you a new build is a health hazard. It is not. What it is, is a system carrying construction debris that will circulate through the home for years, and a predictable source of first-year callbacks that costs $265 to remove.
Blower compartment, coil area and return drops. The blower is where construction fines pack in hardest, and a loaded blower moves less air from day one of the homeowner’s occupancy.
Every supply run, return and diffuser on the system, cleaned under negative pressure so debris leaves the house rather than being redistributed into a home you are about to hand over.
We flag the builder’s filter if it is still in place and tell you what MERV that specific furnace can safely carry — useful information for the handover conversation.
Before-and-after images from inside the system, per home. Worth putting in the handover package — it is concrete evidence of a job most buyers never think about.
How many possessions a month, which communities, and how much notice you typically have. We price the programme rather than quoting house by house.
After the dust-producing work is finished, before the final clean and walkthrough. Cleaning earlier just means doing it twice.
Where sites are close together we do several in a day, which keeps cost down and makes tight windows workable.
Photos and completion record, addressed by lot. Ready to drop into the handover package.
It always does. Tell us and we move with it — no rebooking fee, no argument. Working to a build schedule means accepting that the schedule is the schedule.
Tell us the cadence and we’ll price the programme, not the house.
Tell us your volume and the communities you’re building in, and we’ll come back with programme pricing.
Volume pricing quoted on request.
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