Pressure Cleaners – A Comparison Between Hot and Cold Water Machines
Hot water pressure cleaners are also often known as hot & cold pressure cleaners or steam cleaners and sometimes even diesel fired pressure cleaners
Cold water pressure cleaners are machines that deliver cold water at a particular waterflow rate, depending on the pump size, under pressure to clean a surface of any type. Tyipcally, the larger the flowrate of a pump, the better, bigger and more productive the pressure cleaners are, but when you talk about hot water pressure cleaners, different rules are applied.
The cleaning results gained by using a hot water pressure cleaner are by far much better than using a cold water pressure cleaner and will also save a lot of time. One cannot compare pressure cleaners which are the same technical specification because of the huge difference in cleaning performance when using hot water machines as compared to cold water machines.
Hot water pressure cleaners have come along way since the days of having to heat the water yourself first, then using that heated water to supply the pressure cleaner which would do the cleaning.
A hot water pressure cleaner works these days by having water pumped and pressurized through the pressure pump, the heated via a diesel petrol heater before being discharged out of the machine through the nozzle.
The heat of the hot water does most of the cleaning as compared to a cold water machine which relies solely on pressure to clean. The heat in partnership with the pressured water jointly provides a very formidable team for larger cleaning applications.
A fairly common question posed by customers looking to purchase a pressure cleaner for a specific job is, “Does hot water make that much of a difference over cold?” It is not until one has used a hot water pressure cleaner that one can truly appreciate the difference in the cleaning result and speed of the application.
It is fair to say that this applies to a majority of cleaning applications but is not the case for all particular projects. Having said that, it is also fair to say that in the majority of cases, a hot water pressure cleaner produces a much better result regardless of the particular cleaning task compared to a cold water pressure cleaner regardless of the cold pressure cleaners water flowrate or operating pressure.
Would you think of washing your dinner dishes with cold water? Why would you think that this same principle would not apply to pressure cleaning in general?
So for large industrial applications that require removing heavy dirt, grease or other materials, hot water pressure cleaners are the clear choice to use.
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