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 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.

The humble hot water pressure cleaner has come a long way since its inception where a user needed heated water applied under pressure in order to clean the project at hand.

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.

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.