Cleaning in Tamansourt, Marrakech

Tamansourt is a new town in the north-west of the conurbation, on the route de Safi axis, beyond Sidi Ghanem and Al Massar. It is not a district of Marrakech: it is a self-contained urban entity, with its own centre, facilities and housing estates, but dependent on Marrakech for employment and services. For us it is part of the Marrakech surroundings: same services, same prices.

What makes it distinctive is how it is built. The development corporation does not sell finished homes: it puts serviced plots on the market — six-storey plots with commercial ground floors, three-storey developer plots, town-centre plots. It is then private buyers and small developers who build, each at their own pace and on their own budget.

The result on the ground is instantly recognisable: within the same block you find three- to six-storey buildings finished and occupied, others still at shell stage, and plots that are still bare. The sites do not follow one another, they coexist.

The floors are nothing complicated: ceramic tiling in almost every home, wall tiling, tiled terraces, lobbies occasionally in marble in the better-finished blocks. The only real variability comes from each builder choosing its own product: from one building to the next, the format, hardness and sensitivity of the tiling change, which rules out copying a protocol from one site onto its neighbour. No traditional floors.

On an aerial photograph, Tamansourt looks like a large-scale housing scheme. Commercially it is exactly the opposite, and that has to be said plainly because it is what determines how we organise ourselves.

In a conventional scheme, a single developer hands over a whole phase and orders the work in series: the units are identical, the pace is known, the protocol is set once and then repeated.

In Tamansourt, each building has its own client of record — often a private individual or a small developer putting up a single building. Each has their own calendar, their own level of finish and their own budget. There is no common principal with whom a pace can be agreed.

We draw a simple conclusion from that: there is no pace to negotiate, only dates to bring together. Our prices do not change with distance — those on this page are Marrakech prices, with no travel line in the estimate — and they do not go down with the number of units either: everything is worked out per m² of indoor floor area, with a minimum charge. What you gain by grouping is organisation. Two arrangements work:

1. The whole building. Six, eight or twelve units in the same block done one after the other, once the last tradesperson has left. It is the natural order from a small developer handing over. For a complete building, how the units are split and the scope are confirmed on photos or at a visit; unit prices stay those of the price list.
2. Grouping between neighbouring builders. Two or three sites in the same block, belonging to different clients of record, scheduled on the same day. Each receives their own estimate and pays only their own. It simply requires one of the builders to be willing to coordinate their neighbours.

A third consequence, less obvious: here, a flexible date is worth more than a date held to the hour. The estimate offers a visit from the next day onwards, and the date is always confirmed with our team; in Tamansourt it is that flexibility in the calendar that lets neighbouring sites line up.

What our post-construction cleaning covers in the new town, and what it leaves to the builder.

1. The homes, per m² of indoor floor area. 20 MAD/m² incl. VAT on standard tiles — most of what is laid here — and 30 MAD/m² on the marble of some lobbies and on any other floor. Minimum charge: 2,000 MAD for a studio, 3,000 MAD for an apartment or for a ground-floor shop unit. Many marks of paint, adhesive or cement: +20%; thick residue on almost every surface: +40%, after a diagnosis on photos. Included: floors and skirtings, bathrooms and toilets, stairs and a check of the finishes. How it runs is described on post-construction cleaning for blocks and developers.
2. The new joinery. Accessible windows are part of post-construction cleaning, with no separate line. On runs of openings still loaded with plaster, paint and silicone, what counts is the amount of residue, and it is declared with the rest of the unit. How glazing is treated straight out of a build is set out on window cleaning after building work.
3. The terraces, only if you add them: 10 MAD/m² on standard tiles, 30 MAD/m² on another surface. A roof terrace is done if it is flat, protected and reached by a staircase.

What we do not do: rubble removal. It must be out before we arrive, and we do not clear out; organising a tipping point for the estate remains the builder's business. Nor do we come back after new work.

For a buyer taking possession of a new home, it is the same service, at the same rate, on the floor area of their unit alone: daily housekeeping does not cover the aftermath of building work. It is described on restoring an apartment.

Indicative prices, in dirhams including VAT, confirmed after photos or a visit.

On site, nothing is difficult: wide roads, HGV access, turning space, plenty of parking. No break in the load, no carrying by hand, no gatehouse to talk round. The difficulty is entirely upstream, and it comes down to four checks made before the date is confirmed.

• Permanent water and electricity connections. On a new building they frequently come after the shell is finished. Without water and electricity available on the day, we do not work: a temporary site supply will not run our machines, and a trickle of water will not rinse a unit. We ask about the state of the connections, and we push the date back rather than turn up for nothing.
• The state of the access road. Some estate streets have not yet been surfaced. After rain, a loaded van does not go down them.
• Rubble and items to throw away, taken out before we come. Where no tipping point is organised, they sometimes stay at the foot of the building or inside a unit: we check that on your photos, since we do not remove them.
• The units actually finished on the day. Every tradesperson must be done: a flat where the joiner is still hanging doors is not ready, and a building with four units still locked cannot be done as a whole.

One climatic constraint on top of that, particular to a site that is still largely open: wind and dust levels are high. Window cleaning done three weeks before the homes are handed over has to be done again. It is scheduled as close as possible to the handover of keys.

What we commit to, and what we refuse to commit to, on this destination.

1. The date is confirmed with our team, after your photos. We do not promise immediate availability in the new town; a flexible date lets us bring neighbouring sites together.
2. The treatment is suited to each floor, identified on your photos. Since each builder has chosen its own product, what suits the tiling of one building is not copied onto its neighbour.
3. Handover is unit by unit, with a checklist signed per apartment and a free return on the point flagged if it is not up to standard. On a whole building, a single global handover document would hide the snags.
4. We do not promise to hold a handover date without having seen the site. Volume, stage of completion and connections are verified, on photos or at a visit; they are not declared over the phone. The duration shown by the estimate is for a team of 3.

EPUREVA is reachable seven days a week, works with certified products, covers over 195 clients and carries professional liability insurance. Tell us the number of units, their floor area, the stage of completion and the handover date you are aiming for, and start a quotation request. Every area served is listed on our working perimeter.