Greenleaf Contractors Ltd, trading as Ashrose Group (Northern)
Greenleaf Contractors Ltd was formed in 2000, initially as the first 'Farrow System' franchise.
We specialise in surface preparation and cleaning services, which include blast cleaning, sand blasting, pressure washing, chemical cleaning and steam cleaning services. We also offer post blast cleaning services such as priming and painting including on-site Galvanising using Zinga and stone and brick sealing using Silane products.
If you are looking for a local contractor specialising in surface preparation including blast and sand blasting services, pressure washing, chemical stripping and steam cleaning we can help. We cover a wide geographic area including the whole of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, regularly working in northern cities and towns such as Leeds, Bradford, Newcastle, Sheffield, Hull, York & Lincoln. In the past year we have also travelled as far as Edinburgh, London and deepest Cornwall!
As members of the Ashrose Group nationwide coverage can be arranged. In early 2002, along with three other ex-franchisees, we split with the 'Farrow System' and formed the Ashrose Group, a co-operative of companies offering similar low pressure sand jet cleaning services across the United Kingdom.
Greenleaf Contractors ourselves are a two man operation (although we have been a little bigger in the past!) with both of us having had more than 8 years experience of doing the job. Louis doesn't say much, but just gets on and does the work, and we both believe that we are mainly brought onto building sites to prove that however bad your job is, we do something more unpleasant for a living! Digging out cesspits is the only exception we can think of, although sometimes when hot water pressure washing pigeon poo out of inaccessible places - we can sink that low as well!
Tom started his career as an Aerodynamicist at British Aerospace, starting as a Graduate Mechanical Engineer and progressing up the organisation to project manage 'one of the most expensive 100gallon fuel tanks in the world' - he thought himself underpaid and undervalued until he started out on his own with a Farrow System Franchise!
He made the mistake of watching the BBC's Tomorrows World program in February 2000 (actually to see an article on Ejection Seats) - saw Mr Farrow spouting about 'his invention' (standing next to a machine he had bought from a company down the road from him in green, and he had painted blue and written 'Farrow System' on the side of) - and the rest is history.