Bob Christian, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Landa
What's the best pressure washer for facilities managers, fleet managers or municipalities? Landa's MHC is a great solution for those looking to clean in a variety of ways. Facilities managers might have to clean a spill indoors, such as on a shop floor, and then immediately go outside and clean an oil stain in a parking lot. Which type of solution do they need? A cold water pressure washer, hot water pressure washer, or a steamer? What's the most versatile, economic solution that will address all these needs while also being safe for the operator. At Landa, we address this need by the MHC model - Mobile, Hot, Compact series.
This particular unit focuses primarily on the portability. The focus when you're a facilities manager or municipality, and you have to cover a large territory pretty quickly, is how portable can the unit be and how maneuverable can it be? The Landa MHC comes in a 29" wide frame allowing it to easily move through doorways inside the facility. Its 13-inch pneumatic tires allow the unit to travel over uneven terrain very quickly, very easily, and requires only one operator. Unlike other mobile machines on the marketing, you don't need two or three people to maneuver the machine. As a matter of fact, if you spend a lot of time on indoor applications, Landa offers an easy kit to apply casters on one side. So on hard surfaces indoors, simply take the tires off on one side, put the caster kit on there and you're actually improving your mobility indoors.
This particular model of the Landa's MHC lineup comes equipped with a 10-gallon fuel tank, allowing for a long day of operation without having to stop. Again, thinking of economy, thinking of functionality and making sure that the facility can address all of their cleaning needs without repeatedly having to stop the cleaning process.
And one of the highlights of the Landa model is a horizontal coil design. The horizontal coil creates a lower center of gravity. When you are moving the unit indoors or outdoors, through doorways or over uneven terrain, you don't have a top-heavy type of unit. Many other companies will use a vertical coil and what that does is it raises your center of gravity, and when you travel over uneven terrain, the coil, the heaviest part of the pressure washer, sits on a platform. And as that shakes, it has a tendency to become uneven, creates some instability. Landa rests the coil, the heaviest part of the unit, on 1 and one-quarter inch steel tube frames to evenly distribute the weight. The other advantage to a horizontal coil is it allows an efficiency of heating. When you do have to use hot water, you have to fire a big flame through the middle of the coil, and by doing so you have to have a burner. In Landa's case, we use our own proprietary burner called the SureFire Burner. It has its own clean cut fuel pump, a sight-glass for easy servicing, and it is very functional. Also, if it ever requires service, it's right at the end of the horizontal coil. Here, the horizontal coil, the heat comes through the coil, increasing the efficiency, a lower fuel burn, much more economical, and a little bit lower on the emissions that you're putting out to the environment.
This particular system can also be used simply as cold water. You can switch on and off the burner allowing you to switch easily between hot water or cold water applications. When you do use hot water, you have an adjustable thermostat to allow you to control the temperature. It has an hour meter as well so you know how long the unit's been running so you know when to have it serviced to extend the life of the unit.
Visit www.landa.com to find a local Landa dealer who can help you find the right pressure washer for your application.
