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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: drive surgeon on June 18, 2008, 08:12:58 pm

Title: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: drive surgeon on June 18, 2008, 08:12:58 pm

just wondering the results of hot water vs cold water,   do i really need hot water for domestic drives and small commercial work?   just wondering what the benefits are and anyone got any good names of machines?  does merril fox sell them?

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: trevor perry on June 19, 2008, 12:55:11 pm

the advantage of hot water is it will move chewing gum and a lot of oil based stains that cold water wont touch without the use of chemicals, for most domestic work you woudnt notice much of a difference although when a customer sees all the steam coming out of sides of the flat surface cleaner they always remark on it and think it is doing a better job.
  the downsides of hot water is the machines are a lot more expensive to buy and to run and there is a lot more that can go wrong with them as for makes of machine there is a lot to choose from but we use a lavorwash thermic 17 and find it brilliant.

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: BDCS on June 19, 2008, 05:34:19 pm

What about a hot box then you got the choice

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: drive surgeon on June 19, 2008, 05:45:57 pm

i just dont know whether its worth me buying a hot box or hot washer for my work doing drives and patios and some commercial work,  do you use hot water thru a turbo nozzle to remove chewing gum? or do you use a special nozzle? ???

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: BDCS on June 19, 2008, 06:26:43 pm

They just use a fan nozzle for gum

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: rob fryer on June 19, 2008, 07:24:44 pm

Got a techclean hot box great bit of kit

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: trevor perry on June 19, 2008, 08:19:42 pm

we looked into running a hotbox but could only source them to run upto 15 litres a minute which on some jobs we find not enough, you also need another generator to run the hot box so again this can be an hassle i think it all boils down to how much work you do and i wouldnt buy a hotwash unless you really need one.

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: drive surgeon on June 22, 2008, 08:45:56 am

hey rod fryer, how much was the tech clean hot box and is it easy to use. ???

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: rob fryer on June 22, 2008, 03:44:40 pm

Drive surgon bought mine second hand but i think they are about £900 new very east to use quick release fitted on inlet and outlet ,will need small gen to power elec side of things but it only takes about 200 watts takes 3000 psi 15lts min and150c but not on full pressure as water passes through burner to quick.
sometimes use mine to give hot water supply when cleaning carpets .

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: drive surgeon on June 22, 2008, 09:02:39 pm

hi clint im waiting till after the winter as usually from august onwards it tails off, if we have a bad winter i will be broke!

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: rob fryer on June 23, 2008, 08:08:56 pm

Clinton i run a cfr 400 pro with no heater to be fair i think its a good bit of kit bought it cheap and had to do abit of work on it but good add on to the pressure wash side of things .

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: rob fryer on June 24, 2008, 08:48:20 pm

Clinton i bought mine second hand from russel mapp at shropshire pressure washers he gets secondhand stuff in from time to time and he can fix any washer c/c machine and hoover also will help over phone when you have probs

Title: Re: is a hot washer really better than cold
Post by: rob fryer on June 24, 2008, 11:19:49 pm

Thanks for that clinton ive had the site looked at by aweb company and they have got me on page one now on most of the search engines for all the things that i do however looking at the age of people that iwork for, from 40 to75 you need more than the web alone ,trying the local free papers soon worked well in past ,and yes the cfr 400 is agood m/c
cheers rob.