Hot water pressure cleaners are also often referred to as hot & cold pressure cleaners or steam cleaners and sometimes even diesel fired pressure cleaners

Cold water pressure cleaners are machines that pump cold water at a particular flowrate, depending on the size of the pump, under pressure through a nozzle for many different cleaning applications. Typically, the larger the delivery flowrate of the pump, the bigger, better and more productive the pressure cleaners are, but when you start talking about hot water pressure cleaners, this rule does not apply.

The hot water pressure cleaner reigns supreme in the stakes between cold water pressure cleaners and hot water pressure cleaners purely because the cleaning result and the time factor changes completely when using hot water. You cannot compare machines of similar technical specification because there is such a large difference in performance between hot water and cold water cleaning.

The hot water pressure cleaner has come a long way since it first application, where the person would need to heat the water by hand first, then it would be put through the machine which would pressurize it in order to do the cleaning.

The principle of a hot water pressure cleaner these days is that water is pumped and pressurized through a pressure pump then heated before being discharged out of the nozzle as hot water under pressure.

Heat does most of the cleaning as against purely the cleaning power or motion caused by purely the water sprayed under pressure. In regards to hot water machines, the heat along with the pressure provide the strength behind the application of cleaning.

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?” One cannot truly appreciate the differences in cleaning results and the speed at which it can be done unless you have used a hot water machine.

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.

Do you generally clean your dishes in cold water, or do you set your dishwater to use 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.