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Pressure Cleaners - A Comparison Between Hot And Cold Water Machines
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.
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.
Heat does most of the cleaning as against purely the cleaning power or motion caused by purely the water sprayed under pressure. The heat in partnership with the pressured water jointly provides a very formidable team for larger cleaning applications. This gives hot water pressure cleaners a huge advantage against typical cold pressure cleaners because the heat of the water alone can cut through things like paint, plastics, rubber and other types of materials.
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. You could make a similar comparison to a cup of tea for example. Does a hot cup of tea taste any nicer than having a cold cup of tea? Well of course it does. How many people do you know that drink cold tea and enjoy that more than a hot tea?
While this applies to the majority a cleaning applications, it cannot be said that it occurs for all. But, in most cases, hot water machine does present a much greater cleaning result as compared to a cold water machine regardless of the task or the water flowrate or operating pressure.
Do you generally clean your dishes in cold water, or do you set your dishwater to use cold water? Well the same could be said in principle when applied 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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