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Hot water pressure cleaners are referred to by many names, including hot and cold pressure cleaners, steam cleaners and 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. Normally, 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 hot water pressure cleaner is by far the better machine against a cold water pressure cleaner because the cleaning result and the time taken to clean changes dramatically when using hot water. 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. In regards to hot water machines, the heat along with the pressure provide the strength behind the application of cleaning. 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 typical question often posed by someone considering the purchase of a pressure cleaner for a specific type of cleaning project or maybe even just pressure cleaning in general is, “Does hot water really make that much difference?” 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. 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?

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 the larger applications which involve removing grease, heavy dirt or other materials, there is no clearer choice than choosing a hot water pressure cleaner over a cold water machine.