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Jo Bansall

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Water pressure or steam?
« on: January 31, 2016, 02:19:49 pm »
I'm starting up a business and need to know which system is best for cleaning driveways and patios, using water pressure or steam?

chris scott

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Re: Water pressure or steam?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2016, 09:22:04 pm »
Water pressure combined with flow.
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Jo Bansall

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Re: Water pressure or steam?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2016, 10:42:28 am »
Hello Chris,
Thank you for your reply.  I  just need to clean patios and driveways at the moment and am looking for a machine that will give excellent results. I've seen a demo by Kracher but for cleaning patios there seems to be a fine line between what is professional and what isn't.  Do you have any suggestions?
Best wishes,
Jo

Iain macdonald

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Re: Water pressure or steam?
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2016, 06:40:37 pm »
Any Honda pressure washer  15 litre min or 21litre a min will do a good job

scott johns

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Re: Water pressure or steam?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2016, 08:25:03 pm »
yes agree with last post Honda very reliable looks professional and they do a great job as well

chris scott

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Re: Water pressure or steam?
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2016, 12:59:47 pm »
Honda don't make a suitable engine that will run a 21lpm pump.
Karcher no longer make machines for the proffesional user…except maybe one or two steam cleaners ( they would still not be suitable for drives and patio's).
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Strata Cleaning

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Re: Water pressure or steam?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2016, 02:26:57 am »
Steam would be always fancy to have but you dont need it for driveways and patios only - at least to start with.
Water flow and pressure matters. Temperature speeds up and helps though.
21lpm cold machine is really sufficient for most of the basic applications (plenty out there - contact Capital Power Clean or Spina Clean -   those guys have ready affordable start up solutions to offer).


 

Strata Cleaning

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Re: Water pressure or steam?
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2016, 09:44:22 am »
Honda don't make a suitable engine that will run a 21lpm pump.
Karcher no longer make machines for the proffesional user…except maybe one or two steam cleaners ( they would still not be suitable for drives and patio's).

Chris I am not sure of life expectancy of such setup but you can get 13HP Honda GX 390 170 Bar 21 lpm machines