The Gunnerside opportunity
Why Buy a Laser Machine in Gunnerside?
Gunnerside grew as a lead mining village, and that history is written across the valley in stone. The cottages, the walls and the mining ruins up Gunnerside Gill are all stone that has stood in the weather for generations, and a laser cleaning machine gives you a way to work on that fabric that harsher methods cannot match.
Pulsed fibre laser cleaning removes soot, algae, corrosion and old coatings without chemicals or abrasives. On heritage stone and old metal, that is the whole point, because you clean the surface back without cutting into it or leaving residue behind. Our machines are aligned with BS 8221-1:2012, the standard used for listed and conservation work of the kind common in a village like this.
There is ordinary paid work here too, which keeps a business steady. The pub and cafes need kitchen door and extract cleaning, farms have rusted steel, gates and machinery, and older houses carry oak beams under dark old finishes. Seven revenue streams from one machine means heritage jobs and trade jobs together fill a working year rather than one short season.
Training and UK technical support come with every purchase, so working an hour and a quarter out from Leeds does not leave you isolated. If you want a laser cleaning business that can handle both Swaledale's mining heritage and its everyday stone and metal, Gunnerside gives you unusual and interesting ground to work.
From our Leeds studio we cover Gunnerside and the wider North Yorkshire area, 50 miles from Leeds, an area we run regular scheduled trips to. Operators working around Gunnerside also take on jobs in Bainbridge, Coxwold and Muker and the surrounding DL postcodes.
