Hire in Settle
Hire a Laser Cleaning Machine in Settle
Hire a laser cleaner for a Settle job, delivered from Leeds and collected after. A short-term route to clean stone, timber or metal without buying a machine.
Planning to run laser cleaning as a business? You do not need to hire first. Buy a laser machine in Settle and it arrives with training.
Every hire includes
- Training delivered at handover
- Delivery to Settle 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.
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Laser Machine Hire Delivered to Settle
Hiring gives you a laser cleaner in Settle for the length of one job and nothing more. We prepare it at Leeds, run it the 36 miles up, and collect it once you have finished. There are no chemicals to store and no blasting waste to clear afterwards, which keeps a heritage town-centre site or a working yard clean and simple.
The work here is often specific. A shopfront near The Shambles might want years of paint and soot removed, a barn conversion might need oak beams stripped, or ironwork and gates might be thick with rust. You take the machine for a week or more, run the job, and hand it straight back without any longer tie.
A week with the laser on Settle's limestone, gritstone and metal shows you how it behaves on the surfaces you would work on.
Every hire includes training and UK support, whether you take the machine for a week or a month. We set the correct power for heritage stone, timber or metal before you begin, so listed fabric is treated gently and rust comes off cleanly. Weekly and monthly terms mean the cost follows the job, not the calendar.
From our Leeds base we cover Settle and the wider North Yorkshire area, 36 miles from Leeds, with delivery booked in advance. From Settle, the same machine can reach work in Grassington, Ingleton and Pateley Bridge and the surrounding BD postcodes.
Hire in Settle
- 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 Settle
What Needs Cleaning Around Settle
Settle's landmarks span railway, market and school, each built from surfaces that soil, weather and rust.
- The Settle-Carlisle Railway carries stone structures and iron that soot up and rust in an exposed climate, work a laser cleans and strips cold without blasting.
- The Shambles in Settle is limestone and gritstone holding old paint and soiling on its frontages, which a laser lifts without softening the stone beneath.
- Giggleswick School's dressed stone and chapel fabric darken with soot and biological growth over decades, the even soiling a laser removes without touching the surface.
How a hire actually runs
Planning a One-Week Hire in Settle
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. Settle and the villages around it usually give a week enough to work with.
- What a week covers. A week on Settle's protected fabric runs slower than people expect and is worth more per square metre for exactly that reason. Carved stone, sulphate crust in sheltered mouldings and lime-bedded joints are taken at low power, one elevation at a time, and on this kind of work the specification usually matters more to the client than the throughput. In Settle that concentrates on the protected fabric around The Shambles Settle and Giggleswick School, and on the streets running behind them.
- Delivery and collection. Settle is 36 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 Settle 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 Settle.
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 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 industrial laser, 1500W 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 laser graffiti removal machines, laser rust removal machines, laser paint strippers, laser wood strippers, 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 page.
Optional add-on
The Machine Is the Easy Half
Thinking of running laser cleaning as a business? You can buy a machine for Settle 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."
"Delivered to site, trained on the spot, collected when we finished. For a one off restoration job, hiring was exactly the right call."
"A run of railings that would have taken days by hand was stripped back in an afternoon, clean and ready to coat with no grinding."
Laser cleaning in Settle
Specialist Cleaning in Settle
Working out of Settle puts Giggleswick, Langcliffe, Stainforth and Austwick on your doorstep, with Ribblesdale running north and Skipton south down the A65. It is a natural base for anyone chasing heritage stone, railway related metalwork and upland farm contracts across western North Yorkshire. See them all on our services page.
Heritage Stone Cleaning
Settle's Carboniferous limestone is pale and porous, and its gritstone dressings are coarser and darker. Both hold gypsum crust and lichen in the sheltered courses. Laser cleaning removes the soiling at the interface without abrading tooling, chamfers or the fine arris on a Georgian sill.
Stone cleaning machines → Read the guide →Victorian Sandstone
The original face of sandstone frontages across Settle brought back without the micro abrasion that grit blasting causes.
Stone cleaning machines → Read the guide →Graffiti Removal
Painted tags on limestone are a nuisance because the stone drinks solvent and any wash leaves a clean halo. A laser works dry, removing pigment layer by layer until the mineral surface stops the process, which suits the rendered and bare stone frontages Settle has in roughly equal measure.
Graffiti removal machines → Read the guide →Laser cleaning guides
Practical Guides for Settle Operators
Settle's mix of conservation area stone, railway metalwork and farm steel demands different settings and different pricing. Our free guides cover machine choice, day rates and what North Yorkshire clients actually pay for laser work. Browse the full blog.
Hire questions for Settle
Frequently Asked Questions
How far is Settle from Leeds for a delivery?
Settle is around 36 miles from our Leeds base, close to an hour by road. We deliver the machine to your site and collect it when the hire ends, so you neither travel for it nor tie up a vehicle. Weekly and monthly hire lets you take it for exactly the job's length.
What Settle projects suit hiring rather than buying?
A single shopfront or cottage clean in the town, a barn conversion needing beams stripped, a round of rust removal on gates or ironwork, or one heritage stone job all suit hire. When the work is defined and not yet regular, hiring the laser for those weeks is cheaper than owning a machine that waits between them.
What does a Settle hire include?
The machine, delivery to Settle and collection afterwards, hands-on training at handover, the laser safety documentation pack, eyewear rated for the wavelength, signage and a UK support line for the whole hire. Delivery, collection and handover time are quoted separately from the hire rate. The site controls, risk assessment and insurance remain yours as the operator, exactly as they would if you owned the machine.
Do I need my own compressor or water supply for a hire?
No. The machines are air cooled and use no chemicals, no grit and no water, so all you need is power and access. That is one reason hire suits tight town centre sites in Settle where there is nowhere to run a bowser or contain slurry. If it becomes routine work, you can buy a laser machine in Settle, and hiring versus buying lays out the maths.
Will I be able to use it properly on day one?
Training is part of handover. We deliver, set the machine up and take you through parameters, safety and technique on the actual surfaces you are treating, rather than leaving you with a manual and a wave. Handover training covers the settings, so you can start on simple surfaces straight away. If you hire a laser machine and get stuck partway through a job, we are on the phone.
Standards this work sits under
Using a Class 4 laser at work in Settle 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 Settle? 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 Settle from Our Leeds Base
The run from our Leeds base to Settle is around 36 miles up through Craven into the BD postcodes, and we deliver the machine to your door. Hands on training happens at handover, and we set the machine up on delivery, on your own surfaces rather than on a practice piece. At the end of a hire we come back and collect.