Post-construction cleaning in Annakhil, Marrakech

An Annakhil villa is almost always occupied during its building work. The site is limited to a kitchen, a wet room, a floor or a garden-side extension, and life carries on in the rest of the building. That changes three things compared with a site handed over empty.

• There is furniture everywhere else, and the trades have not sheeted it.
• There are occupants, so working hours, a bathroom to keep available, and a noise level that cannot run all day.
• There is a physical boundary to hold, and nobody has marked it out before us.

The first point has a clear price: a furnished home takes +15%, for protection and working around the furniture. The difference with a villa handed over empty is covered on a detached house handed over after building work, and the logic of a full reset after heavy renovation work is on restoration that follows a renovation.

This is the point clients discover too late. Cutting tiles or sanding render produces particles fine enough to stay airborne for hours and pass under doors, through electrical trunking, through ventilation grilles and up the stairwell. They turn up on top of cupboards, on skirting boards and in grilles at the other end of the house, even though the work zone was closed.

What we put in place before starting:

• containment of the handed-over zone with sheeting fixed floor to ceiling, with an access lobby, not a sheet draped over a door
• the zone put under relative negative pressure by extraction, so air is pulled outward rather than into the corridor
• fine-filtration wet-and-dry vacuuming — cutting dust is collected, not swept from one room to the next
• the neighbouring rooms affected, where migration has already happened: they are declared in the indoor area, at the same per-m² price as the work zone

The principle of dusting before washing, which holds on every site, is described on the full sequence of a post-construction clean.

When a site runs in three phases — the floor, then the kitchen, then the extension — the temptation is to have each zone cleaned as soon as it is handed over. We do not work that way, for two reasons.

We come when every trade has finished. A date booked before the end of the works is not accepted: the surfaces handed over first would pick up everything the later phases produce, and a visit after new works is not included in a clean already done.

The minimum applies to every job. On a villa, it is 7,500 MAD incl. VAT. Two jobs on two small zones means that minimum twice; a single job on the total area, once.

At 20 MAD per m² of standard tiles, it takes 375 m² of floor to go beyond that minimum. Below it, declaring one more room does not change the floor price. The full price list for post-construction cleaning lets you run the numbers for your own house.

An Annakhil villa is planted, irrigated and lined with palm trees: leaves, pollen, driveway sand and palm debris come in constantly. Building work adds its own dust on top of an outdoor supply that never stops.

Hence a sequencing rule specific to this area: when you add the terrace serving the extension, it is cleaned before the handed-over interior, not after, so that sand is not carried back onto clean floors. It is counted at 10 MAD incl. VAT per m² on standard tiles, 30 MAD/m² on another surface.

The gravel driveway, the garden and the poolside are not part of the service. The zone's reachable windows and patio doors, on the other hand, are included: no separate line for frames or small render splashes.

The area's specifically domestic constraints — gravel a heavy trolley cannot cross, low branches in front of openings, the family's presence — are detailed on our Annakhil area page. For an estimate, tell us the handed-over zone and its size: floor type, empty or furnished house, the date the works finish. The price is confirmed after photos or a visit.