Frequently asked
Specus Services is a licensed general contractor in Brunswick County, North Carolina providing cleaning, maintenance, and renovation to vacation rental owners, rental managers, commercial property owners, builders, and homeowners. NC General Contractor License #103919.
We provide cleaning, maintenance, and renovation together in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Most companies do one of those three. We hold all of them, which is why the crew cleaning your property is also the early warning system for what is failing in it.
Vacation rental owners, rental agents and management companies, commercial property owners and managers, builders and general contractors, and homeowners.
Yes. North Carolina General Contractor License #103919, building classification, which covers commercial buildings, tenant improvement, and mixed use. The license is held by HandyDan Home Repair and Remodeling, LLC, the parent entity Specus Services operates under.
Yes. Commercial cleaning usually happens after hours, and rental turnovers happen when the calendar says they happen. We schedule around your building, not around our route.
Brunswick County and the coast, including Southport, Oak Island, Holden Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Sunset Beach, Calabash, Shallotte, Bolivia, Leland, St. James, Caswell Beach, Boiling Spring Lakes, and Ash. Commercial and builder work extends into Wilmington and New Hanover County.
Beds stripped and made, linens laundered or exchanged, kitchen reset and dishes run, bathrooms cleaned and disinfected, floors vacuumed and mopped, trash out, consumables restocked, exterior furniture straightened, and a final walk with lights and thermostat set. Damage and missing items are photographed and reported before the next guest arrives, and every turnover includes a condition check of the systems and finishes guests are hardest on — so what is starting to fail reaches you as a note rather than as a complaint.
Yes, including overflow capacity for rental management companies whose in-house housekeeping is at capacity. We work to your checklist and your standard.
Because the property is not earning then. Work scheduled between November and March costs you no booked nights, and the improvements are in place before the next season's rate is set.
It runs in three phases. Rough clean removes debris and heavy dust after trim and before paint touch-up. Final clean covers every surface a buyer will open, touch, or look through, including cabinets, appliances, fixtures, glass, vents, and floors. Touch-up is the pass after the last trade and before the walkthrough. We price the phases separately and schedule them to your closing dates.
We perform third-party QI inspections near the end of construction and deliver a photo-documented list organized by room and responsible trade. We do not bid what we find — the list exists so you can hold your subs to their contracts. Having no financial interest in the length of that list is the entire value of a third party.
Both. We rake the lot, pick button caps and cut-offs out of the grass and beds, clear trade debris, and put it in the dumpster, including the street and neighboring lots. Most interior cleaners stop at the glass.
Yes. We hold IICRC Water Damage Restoration Technician certification (#70193958) in addition to the general contractor's license, which means the drying and the rebuild are handled by the same company instead of two. Source tracing, extraction and drying, removal of affected materials, mold and moisture remediation, and the rebuild afterward. Storm work runs from temporary dry-in through finished repair. We document the damage with photographs, moisture readings, and a written scope your adjuster can work from.
Yes. Rotted framing, joists, beams, sills, and band boards. Soft and sagging floors, floor system repair, pier and column work, and deck ledger connections. This is general contractor work, not handyman work, which is why the license matters.
An owner's representative works for you rather than for the contractor — reviewing the scope and the bid before you sign, observing the work at milestones, checking pay applications against actual progress, and running the closeout. Owners use one when the project is large enough that a mistake is expensive, or when they cannot be on site often enough to know what they are approving. It is common on commercial work and increasingly common for second-home owners building from out of state. Oversight and contracting stay separate — you never pay us to inspect our own work.
A documented walk of the property — envelope, systems, finishes, and anything beginning to fail — delivered as a photographed, written list separating what needs attention now from what can wait. Owners use it to budget, managers use it to justify spend, and buyers use it before closing.
Yes, and it is the arrangement we prefer. We walk the property, build a scope and a frequency around what it actually needs, and put it on a schedule. A plan is a written scope, a calendar, and a price — rather than calling somebody after something breaks.
Containment and dust control at the work area, negative air where the scope warrants it, floor and surface protection along the path in and out, daily cleanup rather than cleanup at the end, and sequencing around occupancy — after hours or in phases. Being the cleaning company as well as the contractor is precisely why this goes better.
Because the information moves. The crew in your property every week is the first to see what is failing, and they report it to the same company licensed to fix it. With three separate vendors, nobody has a reason to mention it and nobody is accountable for the property as a whole.
Yes. After-hours work and phased schedules in occupied buildings are normal for us, not an exception that carries a premium.
Yes. We work from your drawings and specifications, or we develop the scope with you if the project is not that far along.
Yes. Certificates of insurance are available on request before anyone works on your property.
It depends on the property, and that is not a dodge. A 2,000 square foot office cleaned three nights a week and a six-bedroom beach house turning over every Saturday are different problems, with different crews and different hours. Some work is priced by the square foot, some at an hourly rate per professional on site, and some as a fixed scope. On construction we will bid against your drawings and scope, or design-build it with you. The first step is always understanding what the property actually needs.
Call and tell us what you need. Most of the time we can give you a range on the phone and tell you what the next step is.
Send the address, the scope, and when you need it. We follow up, walk the property, and put a price on it. Integrity is mostly small things done the same way every time.
Service area. Brunswick County and the coast — Southport, Oak Island, Holden Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Sunset Beach, Calabash, Shallotte, Bolivia, Leland, St. James, Caswell Beach, Boiling Spring Lakes, and Ash. Commercial and builder work extends into Wilmington and New Hanover County.