Cleaning for sites that never fully stop.
Factories, manufacturing units, engineering workshops and warehouses across Sheffield, the Don Valley and the M1 corridor. Offices, mess rooms, welfare facilities and the production-adjacent areas that a shift walks through — scheduled around the rota rather than against it, with risk assessments and method statements written for the site before anyone sets foot on it.
On a production site, a cleaner in the wrong place is a safety incident.
Industrial cleaning is as much about where and when as about what. Three things in how we work exist for a building with forklifts, shift changes and a permit-to-work system.
Inducted, RAMS in hand, PPE issued
Every cleaner is inducted on your site — your rules, your zones, your permit system — and works to HSE-compliant risk assessments and method statements written for the building, not a template. COSHH data sheets for every product are supplied before it enters the site.
Worked around the rota, not into it
Mess rooms cleaned between breaks, offices after the day shift, production-adjacent floors during the quiet window. The schedule is agreed with your shift pattern at the site visit and changes when the pattern does.
A relief team, and supervisors on the road
A missed clean on a site that runs 24 hours is noticed by the next shift. Absence is covered by relief cleaners we employ for that purpose, and full-time mobile supervisors audit in person — including at 6am, where that is when the site is quiet.
The specification, written for a working site.
Production machinery, process equipment and anything under a permit stays with your own team or your specialist contractor. Everything a shift walks through is ours. This is the usual shape; yours is written at the site visit.
Welfare, offices and walkways
- Mess rooms and canteens — tables, worktops, sinks, appliance fronts, bins
- Toilets, showers and changing rooms cleaned, sanitised and restocked
- Site offices, reception and meeting rooms
- Locker rooms and drying rooms
- Pedestrian walkways, stairs and mezzanine offices swept or mopped
- Touch points — handles, push plates, turnstiles, hand-wash stations
- General waste and recycling emptied to your segregation
- Entrance and gatehouse presented
The reset
- Internal glass, partitions and viewing windows
- Fridge, microwave and vending exteriors and interiors
- Canteen deep wipe-down and floor scrub
- Washroom fittings descaled, shower areas detailed
- Skirting, ledges, sills and fire-door edges
Scheduled or called off
- Machine-scrubbed floors in warehouse and non-production areas
- High level — beams, ducting, light fittings and ledges, with method statements in advance
- Deep clean of canteens, welfare and washrooms
- Post-shutdown, post-refurbishment and builders cleans
- External areas, signage and entrance canopies
- Carpet extraction in office areas
High level, deep cleans and builders cleans can sit inside the contract on a calendar or be called off when a shutdown comes round. High level cleaning → · after builders cleaning → · every commercial service →
Whenever the site is quietest, which is different for every site.
A single-shift workshop and a 24-hour plant keep different hours. The pattern follows the rota, and it is agreed at the site visit.
Between shifts
Mess rooms and washrooms turned around in the changeover window, so the incoming shift walks into a clean canteen.
Timed to the changeoverAfter the day shift
Offices, reception and welfare cleaned in the evening once the day shift has gone — the most common pattern for single-shift sites.
After the last departureDaytime presence
A cleaner on site through the shift for larger plants — welfare kept right between breaks, spills dealt with, walkways kept clear.
Part-day or full-dayShutdowns and weekends
Deep cleans, high level and floor work scheduled into planned shutdowns, when the production floor is accessible and empty.
Planned into the calendarSite inductions, PPE, permits and access are arranged during mobilisation. Our people do not enter a zone they have not been inducted for.
A tool shop and a distribution shed are different contracts.
Industrial is a broad word. These are the sites it usually means, and what differs between them.
Manufacturing and engineering
Machine shops, assembly and fabrication. We clean the offices, welfare and walkways; the machinery stays with your team. Scheduling follows the shift pattern.
Warehousing and distribution
Large floors, mezzanine offices, driver welfare and a canteen that never closes. Machine-scrubbed floors and touch points around goods-in.
Food and drink production
Welfare and office areas cleaned to your hygiene policy, with product choice and colour-coding agreed to keep our equipment out of production zones.
Construction sites and site welfare
Cabins, drying rooms and toilets through the build, then builders cleans and sparkle cleans to handover standard at the end of it.
Depots and transport yards
Mess rooms, offices and driver facilities scheduled around vehicle movements. See also travel & transport.
Laboratories and clean-adjacent areas
Offices, corridors and welfare around controlled areas, with the boundary written into the specification and respected.
Industrial is one of twelve sectors. Public sector depots and offices have their own pages — or see all twelve sectors and 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, and a price that comes from the building rather than a rate card.
Anyone who quotes without seeing the site is guessing at your hours. This is what happens instead.
Site visit
We walk the building with you — the areas, the hours you need covered, the standard you are working to, and the things the last contractor kept getting wrong.
Written proposal
A specification and a price, with the tasks and frequencies set out plainly. Insurance certificates and compliance documents come with it, not on request later.
Mobilisation
Team assigned and inducted on site, access and alarms arranged, RAMS written for the building, consumables and equipment set up. A start date, not a vague fortnight.
Supervision
Mobile supervisors audit against the specification, your named contact stays the same, and the schedule flexes as the building changes.
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 site managers ask.
Q.01Do you provide risk assessments and method statements?
Yes — HSE-compliant RAMS written for your site, not a template with your name on it, and COSHH data sheets for every product before it enters the building. They are supplied with the proposal so your H&S lead can review them before mobilisation.
Q.02Will your cleaners follow our site induction and permit system?
That is a condition of the contract, not a favour. Every cleaner is inducted on your site — your zones, your permits, your PPE rules — before they work on it, and relief cleaners are inducted before they cover. Our people do not enter a zone they have not been inducted for.
Q.03Do you clean production machinery?
No. Process equipment, machinery and anything under a permit stays with your own team or your specialist contractor. We clean everything a shift walks through — welfare, offices, walkways, washrooms, canteens — and the non-production floors.
Q.04We run three shifts. When would you clean?
In the windows the site gives us — between shifts for welfare, after the day shift for offices, and into planned shutdowns for floor work and high level. The schedule is agreed against your rota at the site visit and moves when the rota does.
Q.05Can you do high level cleaning of beams and ducting?
Yes, with method statements in advance and the right access equipment for the height. It is usually scheduled into a shutdown so the floor beneath is clear. High level cleaning →
Q.06What happens if a cleaner does not turn up?
Relief staff cover it — cleaners we employ who hold no round of their own, inducted to your site before they cover it — and full-time mobile supervisors pick up anything the relief team cannot reach. Every visit is checked in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, so attendance has a record.
Q.07How is industrial cleaning priced?
From a site visit, against a written specification with the hours stated. A single-shift workshop with one mess room and a 24-hour plant with three are not the same number, and anyone who quotes without walking the site is estimating your hours.
Q.08Which areas do you cover?
Sheffield and the Don Valley first, then Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster and the M1 corridor, and across 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.
Walk us round the site. The specification is written to it.
Half an hour on site, a written specification, a price with the hours stated — and a start date rather than a vague fortnight.