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. Generally, 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. 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.

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?” 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.

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.

Would you think of washing your dinner dishes with cold water? Well the same could be said in principle when applied 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 hot water pressure cleaners over a cold water machine.