Post-Construction Cleaning in Sintra

About our service in Sintra

The sequence carries the job. Rubble, spoil, packaging and offcuts are removed to an authorised disposal point — on a quinta that usually means several loads and a route across ground that a vehicle cannot always reach, so it is planned rather than improvised. Inside, we clean downwards: beams and ceilings, the tops of doors and shutters, deep reveals and cills, stone thresholds, skirtings, and the floor last. Nothing gets wet until the dry dust has been extracted. Lime dust and water make a paste that goes into the pores of an old stone flag, into the seams of a wide pine board and into the joints of terracotta, and in a damp house it stays workable long enough to spread everywhere before it hardens. Then the surfaces dictate everything. Old stone and lime plaster cannot take strong alkaline or acidic products; original timber floors take a damp cloth, not water; azulejo panels and painted lime finishes need a neutral approach and a light hand. Glazing and joinery are the slowest part, as always — shutters, deep frames, small panes, runners packed with dust and mastic — and they are cleared mechanically before the glass is touched, since grit in a runner turns the first wipe into a scratch. Where the works reached outside, stone steps, terraces and paving are stripped rather than rinsed. If there is ducted ventilation or air conditioning, the grilles and accessible parts are cleaned so the system does not hand the dust straight back. The honest limits, stated at the quote. Cement cured into porous stone is often there for good; paint dried into a grout line, silicone dragged beyond its bead and glass scored by a trowel or by protective film left in the sun are damage rather than dirt. We point them out before we work on that area. We also clean rather than complete — touch-in paint, missing grout, a badly seated skirting or an unfinished lime patch is the job of whoever did the works, or of our bricklayer service. And a heavy restoration keeps shedding dust for days out of grilles, gaps and beam tops, so a lighter second pass before furniture arrives is usually the sensible plan. We work Monday to Saturday, 9am to 8pm, closed on Sunday, and we book against the real end of the works, which on a house of this age moves more than most.

Scope of a post-restoration clean in Sintra:

Services Included

• Removal of rubble and spoil to an authorised disposal point, access route planned
• Dry extraction of lime, brick and stone dust from beams, ceilings and shutters
• Glass, shutters and deep frames cleaned with runners and rebates cleared
• Deep cleaning of stone flags, terracotta or old boards with neutral products
• Sanitising of kitchens and bathrooms plus stripping of steps and terraces

Areas We Serve

We travel out to Sintra vila, São Pedro de Penaferrim, Estefânia, Portela de Sintra, Colares and Monte Santos.

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