And they wont heat up stone cold water.
Huh ? they will burn your hand from cold if your doing upholstery or a stairs for example ...
You mean they wont keep up with a medium jetted wand at a high flow rate from cold ....
You gotta make an effort to work with electric heat ...
for eg .... keep one low jetted want ( about 3flow ) on board .... if stone cold fromtap is all u have ... pre heat the water u feed to your inline , in the case of the enforcer , ashbys do en excellent 3kw immersion in tank , you could have that switched on while your prespraying ... prescrubbing ... etc
If you get the external steammate , you can have your immersion running constant while u use the inline ...just plug one of them into a different area of the building , the canteen or what ever to get onto another circuit .
Heat wont matter sometimes and the end results might be the same ... but occasionally it will speed up getting that result bigtime .
As for the steammate breaking down ... like every thing , eventually a switch or thermostat will fail , i dont doubt Ashbys would rob you for repair ... but they are not the most complex of thing and a local repai guy should be able to get it going easy .