Friday, December 4, 2009


Steam vacuum cleaners are hybrids of steam cleaners and vacuum cleaners. Conventional steam cleaning machines do not have a vacuum attachment. That means a towel must be used to remove the dirt from the surface while cleaning. Such steam cleaners can only displace dirt and impurities are not capable of extracting these residues.

Some of the latest models of steam cleaners are equipped with vacuum cleaners/extraction chambers. These machines dissolve residues with high temperature steam and agitation with the detail brush while simultaneously extracting residues from the surface. First, the hot water or steam output is injected onto the surface. Then the surface is cleaned with a detail brush. The residue of dirt and impurities is then deposited into an extraction chamber.

One may not find steam vacuum cleaners offered by all distributors of cleaning products. Daimer®, a trustworthy name among suppliers of cleaning equipment, provides steam vacuum cleaners in its KleenJet® series. Apart from a built-in vacuum cleaner, many of these systems are fitted with ATIS® antibacterial technology and a HEPA filter for air purification.

These steam vacuum cleaners will have three tanks. The first is the boiler tank in which water is heated. The second is the extraction chamber in which dirt residues absorbed by the vacuum are stored. Machines equipped with the continuous refill technology have a third tank. This refill chamber feeds water into the boiler as needed. Operators can add water to the non-pressurized refill chamber during use instead of shutting down, refilling, and reheating, as required by non-continuous refill systems.

Detail brushes are the other important component of steam vacuum cleaners. These brushes have to be replaced periodically. For further details and information, log on to www.daimer.com.