Office cleaning in Sheffield, done before anyone arrives.
Daily, evening and out-of-hours office cleaning contracts for Sheffield workplaces — from a single floor to a multi-tenant building. Directly employed cleaners, full-time mobile supervisors, a relief team for cover, and hours you can verify rather than take on trust.
Nobody in your office sees the cleaning. Everybody sees when it has not happened.
An office clean happens at 6am or 7pm, with the building empty. The only evidence it took place is the state of the kitchen at nine o'clock and the meeting room when a client walks in. So the whole service comes down to one question — did somebody turn up, and did they do the job properly? Three parts of how we are built exist to make the answer yes.
A relief team whose only job is absence
When your regular cleaner is on holiday or off sick, the visit is covered by a relief cleaner we employ for exactly that. Not the cleaner from the building next door doing two sites in one evening. We carry that cost on the weeks nobody is off so that your Monday morning never depends on one person's health.
Mobile supervisors who check offices in person
Full-time supervisors are out across Sheffield every day, auditing against your specification and fixing what they find before you have to raise it. If a standard slips in a building you rarely walk through, that is who catches it.
Hours you can see, not hours we claim
Cleaners check in and out on site with GPS-verified timestamps. Your invoice is for the hours worked, and if anyone ever asks whether the cleaner was in on Tuesday, there is a record rather than a conversation.
The specification, written down.
Every office contract runs to a written specification agreed at the site visit — which tasks, in which areas, how often. This is the shape most Sheffield offices settle on. Yours will differ, and that is what the site visit is for.
The daily standard
- Desks, workstations and shared tables wiped down
- Kitchens — worktops, sinks, appliance fronts, dishwasher loaded or emptied
- Washrooms cleaned and sanitised, consumables restocked
- Bins emptied, recycling separated, liners replaced
- Meeting rooms reset — tables, chairs, glass, whiteboards
- Reception and entrance presented for the first visitor
- Touch points — door handles, push plates, light switches, lift buttons
- Floors vacuumed or mopped throughout
The reset
- Internal glass, partitions and door glazing
- Skirting, ledges, sills and high-touch furniture polished
- Fridge cleared and cleaned, microwave interior, kettle descaled
- Washroom fittings descaled and floor edges detailed
- Telephones, keyboards and screens cleaned with the right products
- Stairwells, corridors and back-of-house areas
Scheduled into the year
- Carpet and upholstery extraction cleaning
- Hard floor machine cleaning, stripping and sealing
- Deep clean of kitchens and washrooms
- High level — light fittings, vents, ledges above reach
- External windows, signage and entrance canopy
- Post-refurbishment and office move cleans
The periodic items can sit inside the contract on a calendar, or be booked when needed. Either way they appear on the same invoice as the daily clean. See every commercial service →
Around your working day, not during it.
An office is the one building where the best clean is the one nobody notices happening. Most of our Sheffield office contracts run on one of four patterns, and plenty combine two.
Early morning
Before the first person is in. The kitchen is ready for the first coffee and reception is presented for the first visitor. Suits offices with alarmed access and an early start.
Before the first arrivalEvening
After the last person leaves. The most common pattern for a Sheffield office — the building is empty, desks are clear, and the clean is a full reset for the next day.
After the last departureDaytime presence
A cleaner on site during working hours for larger offices and buildings with public footfall — washrooms and kitchens kept right through the day, not only at either end of it.
Part-day or full-dayOvernight
For buildings that are never quite empty — shift-based operations, 24-hour sites, and offices where the evening is still busy. Worked when the floor is quietest.
Agreed around your rotaAccess, alarm codes and keyholding are set up during mobilisation and held under our procedures — you are not leaving a key under a mat.
A two-room agency and a four-floor headquarters are different contracts.
Both are office cleaning. Neither is priced, staffed or scheduled the same way, which is why we do not quote from a rate card. These are the shapes we see most often across Sheffield.
Single-floor and small offices
A few evenings a week, one regular cleaner who knows the building, and a supervisor who checks in. A large share of our office work — and a small office is not a small priority.
Multi-tenant buildings
Common areas, lifts, stairwells and shared washrooms for the managing agent, with individual suites cleaned under their own specifications. One team, one invoice per client.
Headquarters and campus offices
Reception, boardrooms, staff restaurants and several hundred desks, usually with a daytime presence alongside the evening team and a named supervisor on the account.
Serviced and co-working space
High churn, hot desks and a kitchen that is used by sixty people who each think someone else will wipe it. Daytime cover and a tighter kitchen frequency than a conventional office.
Law, accountancy and finance
Discretion around confidential paperwork, out-of-hours access and the same faces every visit. Professional services cleaning →
Council and public offices
The compliance pack a procurement process asks for, supplied up front with the proposal. Public sector cleaning →
Office cleaning is one of twelve sectors we work in. Surgeries, schools, factories and sites each have their own page — see all twelve sectors or go back to commercial cleaning as a whole.
Hand towels, bins and windows should not be three more suppliers.
Most offices end up with a cleaner, a washroom company, a waste contractor and a window cleaner — four invoices and four people to chase. Two parts of our business exist so that it can be one.
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 your office 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 office needs more than cleaners
The same recruitment, vetting and HR that puts our cleaning teams in place, used to staff the other roles an office building 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 our office 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 your office rather than a rate card.
Anyone who quotes an office clean without seeing the office is guessing at your hours. This is what happens instead.
Site visit
We walk the office with you — the areas, the hours you need covered, the standard you are working to, and the things the last cleaner kept getting wrong. Half an hour, usually.
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
Your cleaner 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 office grows, shrinks or moves floors.
A Sheffield company, cleaning Sheffield offices.
We are registered and based in S10, and our office contracts run across the city — from the professional quarter around the cathedral to the business parks along the Parkway. Supervisors are on the road in Sheffield every working day, which is what makes an in-person check practical rather than a phone call.
City centre
- Heart of the City
- Cathedral Quarter
- Devonshire Quarter
- Castlegate
- Kelham Island
- Neepsend
- Cultural Industries Quarter
East & the Parkway
- Attercliffe
- Meadowhall
- Tinsley
- Sheffield Business Park
- Advanced Manufacturing Park
- Darnall
- Olympic Legacy Park
North, west & south
- Hillsborough
- Chapeltown
- Ecclesall Road
- Broomhill
- Sharrow
- Heeley
- Woodseats
- Dore & Totley
Office outside Sheffield? We clean offices across Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire — 25 towns and cities. See every location we work in →
The questions office managers ask.
Q.01How much does office cleaning cost in Sheffield?
It depends on the hours your office needs, which depends on its size, how it is used and the standard you want — which is why we price from a site visit rather than a rate card. A two-room office cleaned twice a week and a three-floor headquarters cleaned nightly are not the same number, and anyone who gives you one without seeing the building is guessing.
What you get is a written price against a written specification, with the hours stated. Because cleaners check in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, the hours on your invoice are the hours worked.
Q.02How often should an office be cleaned?
Most Sheffield offices settle on somewhere between two visits a week and every working day, and the deciding factors are headcount, whether there is a kitchen, how many washrooms there are and whether clients visit. Kitchens and washrooms are what set the frequency — desks can wait a day, a shared fridge cannot.
We will recommend a frequency at the site visit and it can change later. Offices grow, move floors and go hybrid, and the specification moves with them.
Q.03Do you clean outside our office hours?
Almost always. Most office contracts run early morning or evening so the building is right before anyone arrives and nobody is vacuuming around a meeting. Overnight and daytime cover are both available where the building needs them. Access, alarm codes and keyholding are arranged during mobilisation and held under our procedures.
Q.04Will we get the same cleaner each time?
Yes. Every contract has a regular cleaner or team who know the building — where the bins go, which door sticks, whose desk not to touch. Because our cleaners are employees rather than subcontractors, they stay. When your regular cleaner is off, cover comes from a relief cleaner we employ for that purpose, and your supervisor will know.
Q.05What is included in a standard office clean?
Every visit: desks and shared surfaces, kitchens, washrooms, bins and recycling, meeting rooms, reception, touch points and floors. Weekly or fortnightly: internal glass, fridge and appliance interiors, detailing, telephones and screens. Periodic: carpets, hard floors, deep cleans, high level and external windows. The full specification is above, and yours is written down at the site visit.
Q.06Do you supply hand towels, soap and toilet roll?
Yes, if you want us to. Washroom consumables, sanitary units, bin liners and janitorial supplies can be managed on the same schedule as the clean and billed on the same invoice, with usage tracked against what the office actually gets through. Waste and recycling collection, confidential waste and external window cleaning can be added the same way. It is optional — plenty of contracts are cleaning only.
Q.07Our office is small. Is it worth your while?
Yes. Small offices are a large share of our office work, and an evening visit a couple of times a week is a normal contract for us. The site visit is shorter, the specification is shorter, and the same supervisor and relief cover apply. You are not a lower priority because the building is smaller.
Q.08How do you vet cleaners who will be in our office alone?
Every cleaner is directly employed by NowThen — recruited, reference-checked, inducted and managed by us — our own employees, not agency staff. They are inducted on your site specifically, they check in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, and they are supervised in person. Where your office needs a specific level of vetting, tell us at the site visit and it goes into the proposal.
Q.09We already have an office cleaner. What is involved in switching?
A site visit, a written proposal, and a mobilisation plan with a firm start date so there is no gap between the last clean under your old contractor and the first under ours. Check your existing contract's notice period first — it is the one thing that sets the timeline. Where existing staff transfer under TUPE, that is handled as part of mobilisation and we talk you through it at the proposal stage.
Q.10What products do you use, and what about our environmental policy?
Refillable and recyclable cleaning solutions rather than single-use plastic, colour-coded equipment so kitchen and washroom cloths never meet, and COSHH data sheets for every product that comes into the building. Rounds are routed to cut mileage between sites. If your office has a supplier policy or a specific requirement — fragrance-free, a particular certification — raise it at the site visit and the specification is written to it.
Something not covered? Email hello@nowthencleaners.co.uk or call 0114 212 7030 — the office is reachable seven days a week.
Show us round. The price comes from the office, 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.