How long after works to deep clean? (aka THE DUST AAARGH!)

[TooManyHappyMeals]

We're coming to the end of a major-ish renovation involving taking down some fairly hefty walls. Despite our best efforts to cover things and close doors etc, it has left dust on every single fecking surface of the house. When I wipe it away it reappears within a few hours so it's clearly still settling.

How long should we leave it after the end of the works to get a deep clean? Any experience? I had thought within a few days but I don't want to deep clean and then find more dust settles after that.

PS I'm on a tight timescale. Around 2 weeks between scheduled end of works and due date.

I hope there is no carpet on the floor as this will make things 1000% times worse.
The only way to deal with that kind of dust is to 'wet dust' everything, even the walls. It will keep settling for weeks otherwise.
Wear a mask, full body suit and a few buckets of water and start cleaning...

TBH ours took about 6 months

We realised even the walls were covered in dust, once we cleaned those it stopped settling everywhere else. I think it was just clinging there and then going back into the air again.

buy a builder's canister vac, with replaceable cartridge filter and replaceable bags. If you can't get replacements to fit, don't buy it.

Vac repeatedly.

After you thing it's clean, use a soft brush and broom on the walld, ceilings, lampshades, tops of doors, picture rails and crevices, and do it again.

Then start damp-sponging. Keep rinsing out the sponge. You will be astonished how much there is.

Don't use your domestic vac. Builders' dust will ruin it.

Once you think it is clean, wash your curtains, hire a carpet cleaner, unpack all your cupboards, wash them inside and out and wash everything before putting it back.

btw if you want to start cleaning things already, protect them from further dust by putting them in those big plastic storage crates with a tight-fitting clip-on (not folding) lid.

They will stack into towers.