Commercial cleaning in Manchester, staffed in Manchester.
Contract cleaning for offices, professional practices, managed residential blocks and venues across Manchester and Salford — from Spinningfields and NOMA to Salford Quays and Trafford Park. Teams recruited in Greater Manchester and employed by us, supervised on a regional route, with relief cover and hours you can verify.
The biggest office and residential market in the North, almost all of it out of hours.
Manchester's commercial estate is dense and vertical: the financial and legal floors of Spinningfields and Deansgate, the media and tech buildings at NOMA, Ancoats and the Northern Quarter, the Oxford Road corridor of universities and hospitals, and the towers of managed apartments that have gone up along the Irwell and around Deansgate Square. Across the river, Salford Quays and MediaCityUK add office and media buildings with residential blocks alongside them.
Then there is Trafford Park — one of the largest industrial estates in Europe — and the distribution and manufacturing sites around the M60 and Airport City. Contracts here are as varied as anywhere we work, and the sector pages below carry the detail. What is particular to Manchester is access: alarmed floors, concierge desks, fob systems and keyholding are agreed during mobilisation rather than sorted out in week three.
Staffed near the building, supervised from the road.
A commercial contract is not delivered from a van that drives out from Sheffield each night. It is staffed around one building with its own team, which is what makes distance a logistics question rather than an obstacle. Here is what that means in Manchester.
Recruited near the site, employed by us
The cleaners on a Manchester contract are recruited within sensible travel of the building and directly employed by NowThen, then inducted on your site specifically. The same faces each visit, because they live nearby and they stay.
On a regional route, in person
Manchester and Salford contracts sit on a Greater Manchester supervisor route that also covers Stockport, Oldham, Bolton, Bury and Wigan. Supervisors audit against the specification in person; a building that needs an early or late check is what the route is planned around.
Relief cleaners, and hours you can see
Absence is covered by relief cleaners we employ for that purpose. Every visit is checked in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, so the hours on the invoice are the hours worked and an attendance question has a record rather than an argument.
What commercial cleaning in Manchester usually means.
These are the sector pages Manchester enquiries most often fall under. The building, not the city, sets the specification.
Offices
Daily and out-of-hours contracts from a single floor to a tower, with concierge and fob access agreed up front.
Office cleaning →Apartment blocks
Communal rounds for managed residential towers and student buildings, with a signed record of every visit.
Communal cleaning →Professional services
Law, finance and consultancy practices where paperwork is never touched.
Professional services cleaning →Industrial
Trafford Park and the M60 estates — welfare, offices and walkways scheduled around shifts.
Industrial cleaning →Hospitality and venues
Hotels, bars, arenas and event spaces cleaned before opening and after the last customer.
Hospitality cleaning →After builders
Fit-outs and refurbishments cleaned to handover on the programme date.
After builders cleaning →Every sector has its own page describing what the work involves. See all twelve sectors →
City centre, Salford, and the estates around the M60.
Contracts are staffed to the building. The question is whether we can recruit a reliable team near your site — and in Greater Manchester that is rarely in doubt.
City centre
- Spinningfields
- Deansgate
- NOMA
- Ancoats
- Northern Quarter
- Piccadilly
- Oxford Road
- Castlefield
Salford & Trafford
- Salford Quays
- MediaCityUK
- Trafford Park
- Old Trafford
- Greengate
Around the M60
- Airport City
- Wythenshawe
- Didsbury
- Stockport
- Oldham
- Bury
- Bolton
- Wigan
Nearby: Stockport · Salford · Oldham · Huddersfield · Sheffield. Every location we work in →
Four steps, and a price that comes from the building.
Nothing is quoted from a rate card. A site visit in Manchester is how it starts.
Site visit
We come to the building — the areas, the hours, the standard, and the things the last contractor kept getting wrong.
Written proposal
A specification and a price with the hours stated. Insurance and compliance documents come with it.
Mobilisation
A local team recruited and inducted, access arranged, RAMS written for the site. A start date, not a vague fortnight.
Supervision
Your building on a supervisor's route, a named contact who stays the same, and a specification that moves when the building does.
The questions Manchester buyers ask.
Q.01Are you actually based in Manchester?
No — we are registered and based in Sheffield, and we say so. What we do in Manchester is staff a contract with a team recruited within sensible travel of the building, directly employed and inducted on your site, and put the building on a supervisor's regional route. That is how every contract outside Sheffield is run, and it is the honest version of "local".
Q.02Is there a minimum contract size for Manchester?
Not a fixed one. The honest test is whether we can recruit a reliable team within sensible travel of your site and put it on a supervisor's route — which in Manchester, a city of this size, is not usually the problem. Small buildings are not a small priority; the site visit is shorter, that is all.
Q.03Can you clean outside our hours?
Almost always — evening, early morning, overnight or daytime presence, agreed at the site visit. Access, alarm codes and keyholding are set up during mobilisation and held under our procedures.
Q.04Our building has a concierge and fob access. Is that a problem?
No — it is normal here. Concierge liaison, fob issue, alarm procedures and keyholding are agreed with your managing agent during mobilisation, and cleaners check in and out with GPS-verified timestamps so the building's own access log and ours agree.
Q.05How is it priced?
From a site visit, against a written specification with the hours stated. Cleaners check in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, so the hours invoiced are the hours worked. Anyone who quotes a commercial contract without seeing the building is estimating your hours.
Something not covered? Email hello@nowthencleaners.co.uk or call 0114 212 7030 — the office is reachable seven days a week.
Show us the building in Manchester. The price comes from it, not a rate card.
Half an hour on site, a written specification, a price with the hours stated — and a start date rather than a vague fortnight.