About
One person, one van, and a standard I do not hand off.
I set Safee up in 2011 to do one thing well: take a building at the end of construction and hand it back in a state you can put people into. It is still me on site. When a job is too big for one pair of hands I bring in people I have worked with for years — I am there with them, and nothing is called finished until I have walked it myself.
- Not finished until it passes the handover inspection
- On site since 2011
How I work
Three things I do not compromise on
The same person. Whoever quotes your job is the one who turns up to do it. When I bring in extra workers they work alongside me, not instead of me — casual labour that changes every morning cannot know what has already been cleaned and what has not.
Sequence before speed. Dust top to bottom, finish residue next, floors and glass last. Work in any other order and it photographs well and fails the handover inspection.
Finished means finished. I do not leave a building half-done and invoice for the rest. My quote states what is included, what is not, and how long it takes — and if the handover inspection raises anything on my list, I come back and put it right at no extra charge.
Who does the work
The same person quotes it, cleans it and hands it over
The person who gives you the quote is the one holding the cloth, and the one who walks the handover inspection with you. There is no hand-off from a call centre to a crew to another crew, because there is nobody to hand off to.
I am also the one who coordinates with trades still on site, with the lift, with the residents’ committee and with the managing agent — so the cleaning does not stall on a call nobody made.
- One contact, on the phone and on WhatsApp — mine
- A short end-of-day report on larger projects
- A snag round included after the handover inspection
Have a project coming up to handover?
Send the floor area and the date, and I will come back with a range today.