It all goes back the tried and true saying: "You Get What You Pay For" but also "Sometimes You Pay For What You Get".
What good is it to try to save some money on the most valuable piece of equipment for your business by buying a smaller, non-commercial rated machine when for more money you can get a machine that you don't have to worry about, just do regular maintenance.
It is up to you but if you read the forums enough (like for weeks and months) you will see how many times people do like what you are doing, what decisions they made and how they regret those decisions and end up buying another machine to do the job that the first machine was supposed to do but they wanted to save money or did not have the money.
If you don't have the money, save up for it and buy your machine one time but that is up to you, only you know the value of your hard earned money.
Think about this. Say you buy the hardware store machine and go to a customer's house and bid the job and get the job and before the customer says yes, they ask about how you got into the business, what kind of equipment and chemicals you use. Suppose they look at your machine and say something like "Couldn't I buy that same machine at Home Depot???
What do you say to them? Yes you could, but you need to learn about chemicals and how to do the job. That is about when they are thinking if they should hire you or just buy a machine and do it themselves. That is one of the downfalls of using the cheap equipment, they automatically do not think that price is worth it if they could use the same equipment as you and do it themselves.
You also should be learning about how to do the job and also about chemicals. All of that will help you understand why buying a good machine the first time is always the best choice for the work you are going to do.
There is a wealth of information here, you could read for months and months and learn a lot of try shortcuts and ask a million questions without using the search button and quickly lose respect from others and have people not want to help you from you not even trying.
Just my opinion.
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