Buy in Hawes
Buy a Laser Cleaning Machine in Hawes
Hawes sits at the head of Wensleydale, roughly 52 miles from our Leeds base, with limestone farmsteads, gritstone barns and weathered timber for miles around. A laser cleaning machine turns that scattered stone and wood into steady work.
Every purchase includes
- Hands-on operational training, delivered with the machine
- Safety and technical documentation
- UK technical support
- PPE kit and laser safety signage
- Mobile, van-ready configuration
Initial operational training and documentation, not an external qualification. Risk assessments, RAMS, site controls, competent operation, insurance and health and safety duties remain your responsibility as the operator.
Get a quoteThe Hawes opportunity
Why Buy a Laser Machine in Hawes?
Hawes is a long drive from most contractors, and that distance is exactly why a local laser cleaning business makes sense here. Upper Wensleydale is full of limestone farm buildings, gritstone field barns and older timber that has darkened over decades. Owners here often wait months for someone to travel out. A machine based in the dale answers that gap directly.
The seven revenue streams give you room to move through a quiet rural market. Heritage stone cleaning and Victorian sandstone restoration suit the older village buildings, oak beam and timber stripping fits barn conversions, and rust and paint removal covers farm gates, machinery and railings. Kitchen door stripping and graffiti work fill in around the edges when farm and heritage jobs are slow.
Pulsed fibre laser cleaning uses no chemicals and no abrasives, which matters when you are working on soft limestone, lime mortar and old oak. Nothing is blasted or soaked. The surface underneath is left intact, so you can quote confidently on a listed farmhouse or a conservation barn without worrying about damaging the fabric you are cleaning.
Every machine we sell comes with training and UK technical support, so you are not left to work out the settings alone. You learn the process, then take it out across Wensleydale and beyond. From Hawes you can reasonably reach Askrigg, Bainbridge, Leyburn and further down the dale, building a patch that larger firms rarely bother to cover.
From our Leeds base we cover Hawes and the wider North Yorkshire area, 52 miles from Leeds, with delivery booked in advance. From Hawes, the same machine can reach work in Ingleton, Middleham and Settle and the surrounding DL postcodes.
Working in Hawes
- One machine, seven services to sell
- Seven services quoted at professional rates, not material cost
- No chemicals, no waste disposal costs
- Suits BS 8221-1:2012 guided heritage work
- A UK supplier, with UK support after the sale
On the ground in Hawes
What Needs Cleaning Around Hawes
The buildings and surfaces around Hawes show exactly where a laser earns its keep in the upper dale.
- The Wensleydale Creamery works from stone and rendered structures that pick up grime, algae and traffic film like any other Dales building, all of which a laser lifts without chemicals.
- The Dales Countryside Museum occupies older station and civic fabric where soiled stone and painted metalwork are the sort of surfaces heritage laser cleaning is built to restore.
- Hardraw Force draws visitors past stone walls, gateposts and timber that weather and grow moss and algae over the seasons, the kind of biological growth a laser removes cleanly.
Surfaces around Hawes
What the Buildings in Hawes Are Made Of
Wensleydale is built out of the Yoredale beds, alternating bands of limestone, sandstone and shale, and Hawes takes its walls from whichever course lay nearest. That means grey sandstone and gritstone rubble, limestone in the field walls, and heavy stone flag roofs that hold moss on every shaded pitch. Timber lintels, cast iron rainwater goods and painted joinery fill the gaps. At this altitude the weather does the rest, greening the stone and lifting paint within a few seasons.
- Stone flag roofs across the upper dale carry moss beds that hold water against the stone. Laser cleaning removes the growth without the pressure washing that shifts flags and drives water under the lap, and the flags stay in place while you work.
- Dairy country means stainless and mild steel plant, tanks, frames and conveyor parts. A pulsed laser cleans and de-rusts metal without abrasive media, which matters in any building where grit contamination would be a serious problem to deal with afterwards.
- Hawes has a long rope and hardware trade behind it, and the town's workshops still carry cast iron machinery, benches and fittings. Laser stripping takes decades of oil, paint and rust off those without dismantling them or resorting to a caustic tank.
- Painted signage, shopfront timber and door surrounds around the market square weather hard at this altitude. The laser strips flaking coatings back to sound wood in place, so a repaint starts from bare timber rather than another layer over a failing one.
What you are buying into
Not Just an Imported Machine
A cheaper unit online arrives as a box. LaserStrip supplies the right power for the work, configured and tested, with training, documentation, UK support and finance options, and we will say when a laser is the wrong answer.
Choose your machine
Pulsed Lasers
From £6,650 + VAT. The 500W is our main commercial machine; the 200W and 300W suit lighter, detail-led work. The full range runs to 2000W: compare all our laser cleaning machines for sale or laser cleaning machine prices.
Precision & entry-level
LaserStrip 200W
Light, precise and low-cost to run. The most affordable way to start. From £6,650.
View the 200W laser cleaning machine →
Light commercial & detail work
LaserStrip 300W
Control over coverage: joinery, kitchen doors, heritage detail and lighter mixed work. From £7,800.
View the 300W laser cleaning machine →
Recommended for commercial operators
LaserStrip 500W
The machine we recommend for most businesses selling laser cleaning: the coverage for contract work, with the control heritage and detail work still need. From £16,900. Finance available.
View the 500W laser cleaning machine →Need more power? See the 1000W model, 1500W model and 2000W flagship for structural steel, marine and infrastructure contracts.
Business finance through an FCA-regulated broker, subject to status; LaserStrip is not a lender. Check if you qualify for finance →
All prices exclude VAT, freight, import charges and UK mainland delivery, which are quoted at the point of purchase. See the full price list.
Buying for a specific job? See graffiti removal machines, laser rust removal machines, laser paint strippers, what people call a laser sander, or laser stone cleaning machines. Preparing a surface for painting, coating or welding? See laser surface preparation, or, coming from abrasive blasting, our laser blasting machines.
Optional add-on
Buying the Machine Is Half the Equation
The other half is winning the work. LaserStrip Business Launch is an optional, commercial launch and support package. It does not guarantee work, revenue or business success. Starting from scratch in Hawes? Read how to start a laser cleaning business in the UK.
See what Business Launch includes →Customer feedback
What Operators Tell Us
"They answered every question before I bought and have picked up the phone every time since."
"Delivered to site, trained on the spot, collected when we finished. For a one off restoration job, hiring was exactly the right call."
"No chemicals, no mess and no comeback. Clients see the before and after and book on the spot. The 300W has handled everything."
Laser cleaning in Hawes
Restoration Work in Hawes
From Hawes you have Gayle, Bainbridge, Askrigg and Hardraw within minutes and the whole of upper Wensleydale beyond that, with Sedbergh and Leyburn at either end of the dale. Farms, holiday lets and small workshops across that stretch have very little competition for this kind of work. See them all on our services page.
Oak Beam and Timber
Beams, purlins and the roof carpentry inside dale barns are black with soot and old preservative. The laser lifts that back to clean wood in place, dry, keeping the adze marks and assembly numerals visible instead of scouring them away with a wire cup brush.
Laser sanders for timber → Read the guide →Victorian Sandstone
The original face of sandstone frontages across Hawes brought back without the micro abrasion that grit blasting causes.
Stone cleaning machines → Read the guide →Heritage Stone Cleaning
Wensleydale sandstone weathers to a soft grey and gathers lichen and algae in the sheltered courses, while the limestone in walls and dressings takes a thin dark crust. Laser cleaning removes both at the surface without opening the pores or eroding tooled faces and arrises.
Stone cleaning machines → Read the guide →Laser cleaning guides
Practical Guides for Hawes Operators
Fifty odd miles from a city, the questions are about pricing, travel and what a machine really costs to run. Our free guides cover all three, along with power ratings and the kind of work that pays best across the Dales. Browse the full blog.
Questions about buying in Hawes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there really enough work around Hawes to justify buying a machine?
The work is spread out rather than absent. Wensleydale has farm buildings, barns, village stone and timber across a wide area, and few operators travel this far. Buying a machine and basing it locally lets you serve upper Wensleydale properly and reach down towards Leyburn, where demand is easier to gather into full days.
What surfaces will I mostly be cleaning in this part of the Dales?
Expect a lot of limestone and gritstone, lime-mortared walls, weathered oak beams and painted or rusted farm metalwork. Algae and moss are common on damp north-facing stone. The laser handles all of these, lifting soot, growth and old paint while leaving the stone and timber underneath untouched.
Can I take on listed farmhouse and barn work near Hawes?
Yes, subject to the usual permissions. The method can be aligned with BS 8221-1:2012, the code of practice for cleaning buildings, and because it uses no chemicals or abrasives it suits soft limestone and old oak. Consent for listed farm buildings rests with the local planning authority, so check before you quote.
Do I need to hire or see a demonstration before buying for Hawes?
No. Buying is a direct process: an application call about the Hawes work, a machine recommendation, price and finance, a written quotation, purchase, then delivery with training. For most businesses selling laser cleaning that recommendation is the 500W, our main commercial machine. Hire is for a defined job rather than a step before buying, so hiring a laser machine in Hawes only comes into it if you have one project to do, and hiring versus buying explains the difference. See 200W vs 300W vs 500W for the range, then buy a machine.
What happens after I enquire about buying a machine for Hawes?
We come back within one business day, talk through the surfaces and the volume of work you expect around Hawes, and name the machine that fits, which for regular commercial work is the 500W. You get the price, the finance position for your business type and a written quotation for your configuration and delivery address. Buy from the quote by phone or online, and the machine arrives with training. Hire is separate: hiring a laser machine in Hawes covers a defined project, and hiring versus buying compares the two. The range is set out in 200W vs 300W vs 500W, and you buy a machine from the model page.
Standards this work sits under
Using a Class 4 laser at work in Hawes falls under the Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations 2010, with HSE laser guidance and HSE extraction (LEV) guidance alongside. We supply training, documentation and wavelength-rated PPE; the risk assessment, RAMS and site controls for your jobs remain yours.
Got a one-off project in Hawes? Hire the same FLT-P laser by the week or month, delivered with training and a one-week minimum. Hire is for a defined job, not a step you need to take before buying.
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Delivery to Hawes from Our Leeds Base
Hawes sits about 52 miles from our Leeds base, up at the head of Wensleydale in the DL postcodes. That is a proper run, which is why we bring the machine to you rather than asking you to fetch it.