Hire in Hawes
Hire a Laser Cleaning Machine in Hawes
For a single barn conversion, a soot-stained beam or a run of Dales stonework, you can hire a machine and have it delivered to Hawes rather than buying outright.
Planning to run laser cleaning as a business? You do not need to hire first. Buy a laser machine in Hawes and it arrives with training.
Every hire includes
- Training delivered at handover
- Delivery to Hawes and collection, quoted separately
- Safety and compliance documentation
- PPE kit and laser safety signage
- UK support line for the whole hire
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 hire quoteWhy hire in Hawes?
Laser Machine Hire Delivered to Hawes
Hiring suits Hawes because so much of the work here is one building at a time. A farmer with a soot-blackened beam, a homeowner restoring a stone porch, a builder mid-way through a barn conversion. Rather than buying a machine for a single job, you hire one, we deliver it to the site, and we collect it when you are finished.
Hire runs by the week or the month, so you can match the rental to the size of the task. The minimum is one week, which covers a short stretch of rusted railings. Cleaning down the stonework and timber of a full farmstead could take longer, and a month may suit. You decide the window and pay for the time you actually use.
Because the machine is mobile and van-deployable, the awkward location of a Dales site is not a problem. We bring it to you at the head of the dale rather than expecting you to haul anything to Leeds. Training comes with the hire, so whoever runs it on the day knows how to handle stone, timber and metal safely.
Hire suits a defined Hawes project; if you already know laser cleaning will be a proper part of your trade, buy directly instead.
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.
Hire in Hawes
- One-week minimum, weekly or monthly terms
- Delivered and collected, no trip to Leeds
- Handover training and full safety pack
- All seven services available on hire
- Delivery, collection and handover quoted separately
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.
How a hire actually runs
Planning a One-Week Hire in Hawes
Hire starts at one week. That is not an upsell, it is how long it takes to get past the learning curve and onto real surfaces: the first day or so goes on settings and technique, and the rest of the week is production. Hawes and the villages around it usually give a week enough to work with.
- What a week covers. A week on Hawes's rural stock is usually timber and stone. Beams, lintels and purlins taken back through limewash and old finish, farm metalwork and implements cleared of rust, gateposts and boundary walls cleaned of algae and staining. Out here access and power supply shape the week more than the machine's rate of coverage does. Around Hawes the work spreads out, and farm buildings and boundary stone account for as much of a week as anything near Dales Countryside Museum or Hardraw Force.
- Delivery and collection. Hawes is 52 miles from Leeds, an area we run scheduled trips to, so it is worth giving us a little notice on dates. Delivery, collection and handover are quoted separately from the hire rate.
- Handover and training. Set up on your Hawes site with operation, settings and safety controls covered before we leave. Initial operational training, not an external qualification; your RAMS, site controls and insurance stay with you.
- If you decide to buy. Hire-to-buy terms may be agreed at enquiry, but you never need to hire first. See buying a laser machine in Hawes.
Available to hire
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 see all 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 industrial laser, 1500W model and 2000W industrial laser 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 laser graffiti removal machines, laser rust removal machines, paint removal machines, laser sanders for wood, 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
The Machine Is the Easy Half
Thinking of running laser cleaning as a business? You can buy a machine for Hawes directly, delivered with training. LaserStrip Business Launch is an optional, commercial launch and support package, and it does not guarantee work, revenue or business success.
See what Business Launch includes →Customer feedback
What Operators Tell Us
"Quick, clean and no fuss. The before and afters basically sell the next job for me."
"Honest advice from people who actually use the machine. They talked me through buy versus hire with no pressure and helped me pick the right model."
"They answered every question before I bought and have picked up the phone every time since."
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.
Hire questions for Hawes
Frequently Asked Questions
Will you deliver a machine all the way out to Hawes?
Yes. The machine is mobile and van-deployable, and we deliver and collect for hires. From our Leeds base to the head of Wensleydale is around 52 miles, so we plan delivery around your start date and take the machine away once your project is done, saving you any travelling.
How long should I hire for a single barn conversion?
It depends on how much stone and timber is involved, but a full barn with beams and walls to clean often suits a weekly hire. Smaller jobs, like a stretch of railings or one stained beam, fit comfortably inside the one-week minimum. Tell us the scope and we will suggest a realistic window.
Can a Hawes hire cover a gap while I wait for a purchase?
Yes. Monthly hire can cover a contract that starts before a purchased machine lands, or to keep a Hawes programme moving while a second unit is on order. Hire-to-buy terms may be agreed at the point of enquiry so the hire is not written off, but the purchase itself does not depend on hiring first.
How long a hire does a typical Hawes job need?
Most single jobs around Hawes fit inside the one-week minimum once the first day has gone on settings and technique, and a contract with several sites usually runs to a fortnight or a month. When you hire a laser machine we quote the term against the work you describe. If the diary looks like a business rather than one job, buying a laser machine in Hawes is quoted directly from your application; hiring versus buying compares the two.
Do I need three phase power on a farm to run it?
No. The machines run off a standard supply and are air cooled, so there is no chiller, no compressor and no water to plumb in anywhere. On remote sites a generator of the right rating is enough. That is a large part of why people hire a laser machine for jobs where getting services to the building would otherwise be the biggest headache of the week.
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.
Trading laser cleaning long term in Hawes? Buy the machine directly: we recommend the model, quote it and deliver it with training. No hire, demonstration or visit to Leeds needed first.
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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. training is delivered at handover, and on a hire we come back up to collect at the end.