From site dust to handover standard.
Builders cleans and sparkle cleans for commercial fit-outs, refurbishments and new builds across Sheffield and Yorkshire. Staged around the trades still finishing, worked to a handover date, with site inductions, PPE and risk assessments as a matter of course — and a team large enough to hit the date rather than explain it.
The handover date does not move. The trades do.
An after builders clean is a deadline with other people's work still going on around it. Three things in how we work exist for that.
Cleans sequenced to the programme
A builders clean while the second fix finishes, a sparkle clean once the trades are out, and a final touch before the client walks through. Each stage is scoped and dated against your programme, and re-dated when the programme moves — which it will.
A team sized to the date
Drawn from employed teams and a relief pool rather than agency labour, with a supervisor on site zoning the building and releasing areas as they are finished. Cleaners check in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, so the labour on the invoice is the labour that was there.
Inducted, RAMS in hand, PPE issued
Site inductions, HSE-compliant risk assessments and method statements written for the building, COSHH sheets for every product, and the PPE your site requires. We do not turn up on a live site without the paperwork.
Three stages, written down.
Not every project needs all three. The site visit decides which, and the scope is written for each stage.
While trades are finishing
- Bulk debris cleared to your skip or segregation
- Site dust removed from floors, sills, ledges, frames and fittings
- Protective films and tapes removed where instructed
- Windows and glazing first pass, inside
- Sanitaryware, kitchens and fitted units cleaned of dust and residue
- Floors swept, vacuumed and mopped ready for the next stage
Once trades are out
- Every surface cleaned to a finished standard — top to bottom, back to front
- Glass, mirrors and stainless steel polished
- Labels, stickers and adhesive residue removed
- Grout, silicone and edges detailed; paint spots lifted where possible
- Light fittings, vents, ducting grilles and high level within reach
- Floors machine-cleaned, buffed or sealed as specified
For the walkthrough, and after
- Final touch on the day of handover or client inspection
- Snag-list cleaning after the walkthrough
- External windows, entrance and signage
- Deep clean of washrooms and kitchens before occupation
- The first scheduled contract clean once the building is occupied
- Waste and recycling collection arranged
A builders clean often becomes the first clean of an ongoing contract. Contract cleaning → · every commercial service →
Whenever the programme says, including weekends before a handover.
After builders cleaning runs on the project calendar, not the clock. These are the patterns.
Staged through the programme
Builders clean, sparkle clean and final touch dated against your programme and re-dated when it moves.
Sequenced to the tradesWeekend and overnight
Before a Monday handover, a Friday-night start is the normal arrangement.
Timed to the handoverFloor by floor
Larger buildings zoned and released floor by floor so fit-out and cleaning overlap rather than queue.
Zoned and releasedReactive
A delayed trade, a flood, a re-inspection — called off against the agreed rates rather than argued about.
By arrangementSite inductions, PPE, permits and access are arranged before the first visit. Our people do not enter a zone they have not been inducted for.
A single-floor fit-out and a new-build school are different jobs.
After builders cleaning covers a wide range of projects. These are the ones we see most.
Office fit-outs and refurbishments
Floors, glass partitions, kitchens and washrooms to a standard the tenant walks into. Often the first visit of an office cleaning contract.
New-build and refurbished schools
Classrooms, halls and washrooms to handover before term. School cleaning →
Healthcare fit-outs
Treatment rooms and clinical areas cleaned to the practice's infection control policy before occupation. Healthcare cleaning →
Retail, hospitality and showrooms
Shop floors, kitchens and glass to an opening-day standard. Retail · hospitality · showrooms
Residential blocks and student accommodation
Communal areas and rooms to handover before residents arrive. Communal cleaning →
Industrial units and warehouses
Offices, welfare and machine-cleaned floors before the plant moves in. Industrial cleaning →
After builders cleaning is one of thirteen commercial services. See all thirteen or go back to commercial cleaning as a whole.
Consumables, waste and windows should not be three more suppliers.
Buildings rarely need only cleaning. Two parts of the business exist so that the rest does not become four more contracts, four more invoices and four more people to chase.
Consumables, waste and the outside of the building
Managed on the same schedule as the clean and billed on the same invoice, so usage is tracked against what the building actually gets through rather than a standing order that arrives whether you need it or not.
- Washroom supplies
- Sanitary units
- Waste & recycling
- Confidential waste
- External windows
- Signage cleaning
Staff, when the building needs more than cleaners
The same recruitment, vetting and HR that puts our cleaning teams in place, used to staff the other roles a site runs on — employed by us, covered by us when someone is off.
- Reception & front of house
- Caretaking
- Kitchen & catering
- Security
None of it is compulsory. Plenty of contracts are cleaning and nothing else — but if you are currently managing four suppliers for one building, raise it at the site visit.
Four steps from programme to handover.
A builders clean is priced from the site and the programme, not from the floor area.
Site visit
We walk the site with you — the areas, the stage the trades are at, the handover date, and what the client will inspect. A live site tells us more than a drawing.
Written scope
Each stage scoped and priced with the labour stated, dated against your programme. RAMS, COSHH and insurance come with it.
Mobilisation
Inductions, PPE, permits and access arranged; a supervisor assigned; the team sized to the date.
Delivery and handover
Zoned, released and checked off against the scope. Snag-list cleaning after the walkthrough, and the first contract clean if the building is ours to keep.
Sheffield first, and staffed locally everywhere else.
We are registered and based in Sheffield and most of our contracts are here. Further afield, a contract is staffed with a team recruited near the building and supervised on a regional route — distance is a logistics question, not an obstacle.
Yorkshire
- Sheffield
- Barnsley
- Rotherham
- Doncaster
- Leeds
- Huddersfield
- Wakefield
- Bradford
- York
Derbyshire
- Chesterfield
- Derby
- Dronfield
- Buxton
Greater Manchester
- Manchester
- Stockport
- Oldham
- Salford
- Bolton
- Bury
- Wigan
Nottinghamshire
- Nottingham
- Mansfield
- Worksop
Lincolnshire
- Lincoln
- Scunthorpe
Somewhere between those towns? Ask — the honest answer depends on whether we can recruit a reliable team within sensible travel of your site. See every location we work in →
The questions project managers ask.
Q.01What is the difference between a builders clean and a sparkle clean?
A builders clean is the first pass while trades are still finishing — debris, site dust, protective films, a first clean of glass and fittings. A sparkle clean is the finished standard once the trades are out — every surface, polished glass, labels and residue removed, floors machine-cleaned. Most projects need both, a few days apart; some need only one.
Q.02Our programme keeps moving. Can you?
Yes. Each stage is dated against your programme and re-dated when it changes, and a team sized to the date is drawn from employed teams and a relief pool. Tell us early and it is a re-plan; tell us on the day and it is still usually possible.
Q.03Do your cleaners work on a live site?
Yes, with the paperwork: site inductions, HSE-compliant RAMS written for the building, COSHH sheets for every product, and the PPE your site requires. Our people do not enter a zone they have not been inducted for.
Q.04What is not included?
Anything structural, anything under a permit, and anything a trade should have done — we do not scrape plaster off glass that should have been protected, though we will lift paint spots where possible. The scope for each stage is written so nothing is assumed.
Q.05Do you remove the waste?
Debris is cleared to your skip or segregation as part of the builders clean. Where the site has no waste arrangement, collection can be arranged as part of the job.
Q.06Can the builders clean become the first clean of an ongoing contract?
Often it does. The team who cleaned the fit-out know the building better than anyone, and the first scheduled clean follows handover without a gap. Contract cleaning →
Q.07How is an after builders clean priced?
From a site visit and the programme, per stage, with the labour stated. Floor area alone tells us very little — a fit-out with glass partitions everywhere and a warehouse shell of the same size are not the same job.
Q.08Which areas do you cover?
Sheffield first, then Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire — 25 towns and cities. See the full list →
Something not covered? Email hello@nowthencleaners.co.uk or call 0114 212 7030 — the office is reachable seven days a week.
Send the programme, or show us the site. The scope is written to both.
Half an hour on site, a written specification, a price with the hours stated — and a start date rather than a vague fortnight.