RowentaIron, Stainless Steel Soleplate Professional Steam Station for Clothes, 1.1L Removable Tank, Fast Heat Up, 1800 Watts, Blue Clothes Iron, DG8624

I iron all kinds of albs and priest vestments which are made of materials that you have to iron hot and lots of steam to have nice creases . I had a Rowenta professional iron that lasted me over 20 years. However I did not allow anyone else to use my iron in my studio, one good reason ? anything lasts longer when one person uses it. So,I found myself having to replace my iron the old and faithful stopped working . I was trying to be frugal and not spend over $150 for another iron since there are so many out there. I did purchase five not all at the same time all different brands and they were horrible so I bit the bullet and I got another Rowenta. this particular model wasn’t the most expensive but it had everything that I needed. I particularly do not like the automatic shut off. I guess ill have to deal with that. Everything else is really good. Easy to use. Water does not drip and or leak out all over the items being ironed. Thats another pet peeve of mine. The tank does not last as long as I need it too, nothing I cant get use to. Over all it’s a good iron. Clean, glides smoothly over fabrics . Love the narrow front for small corners that never get ironed . I don’t like the electronic buttons . However , I will adjust. The iron Gets nice and hot, plenty of bursts of steam when you need it… i loved my older version. Im hoping this one , in this day an age will last just as long .

I used one of these at somebody's house I was visiting. Had to get one. I've had mine for about a year now. Still working great with the ironing load of a family of four with two teenagers. This will completely change your ironing game in terms of how fast you can work and the severity wrinkles you can take out. Steam takes probably three or four minutes before it gets started but copious amounts of steam that a regular iron cannot produce which really helps getting wrinkles out quickly.

I learned to iron as a boy. My mother had a serious car accident when I was in my early teens, and I needed to take over a bunch of domestic aspects of running our home. At the time, I didn't enjoy ironing, but I found it calming. While I can send my clothes to a laundry service, I enjoy the ritual of ironing on Sunday afternoons in preparation for the week. Since ironing needs to please and calm me, having the right equipment is paramount.This Rowenta iron is the right equipment for getting my clothes nicely smooth and creased. The quality of my ironing, in turn, creates enormous satisfaction as I see the week ahead's perfectly ironed shirts and trousers on the rack.The blast of steam shooting from the soleplate is indeed powerful; the creases you don't need do not stand a chance.Filling and unfilling water are simple, and the iron is ready to use from cold to steaming in about two and a half minutes. The cable is very long, enabling me to place the ironing board anywhere in the room I need. For storage, I put Velcro cable ties around the power cable when it is not in use, and the pipe between the tank and the iron fits into an organizer when not in use.Overall, this is a terrific iron. I have used it a lot, and it continues to work perfectly. I did need to clean off hardened starch residue with the Rowenta soleplate cleaner, which I reviewed separately; that process was easy and worked flawlessly.I pair this Rowenta iron with a large Brabantia Size C ironing board. A large ironing board is faster and more satisfying. Amazon sells a selection of original Brabantia covers in fun designs.This Rowenta iron is highly recommended.

I’ve been using this Rowenta iron for a few weeks now, and I’m really impressed. It heats up quickly, produces a powerful amount of steam, and glides smoothly over all types of fabric. Ironing has become so much faster and easier with this! The water tank is a decent size, so I don’t have to refill it constantly. Overall, great product—definitely worth the price!

Let me summarize this iron in one word: CRAP.This is the 5th Rowenta Steam Station I've owned since 2015. The previous units were the two models prior to this one (one white/blue, and one white/purple). On average they have lasted about 18 months or so before they began continually spewing brown water all over the clothes and ironing board. That was despite cleaning the sole plates regularly, using tap water as emphatically recommended in Rowenta's user manual, and decalcifying them and cleaning out the tanks regularly.On the last previous model, purchased in November 2019, we decided to try using distilled water only and from the start. We were thinking maybe the issue is the tap water after all, even though Rowenta says to only use tap water... Well by the first week of April it was spewing not brown water, but black water, and a new feature... black fuzz. That fuzz would stain instantly before you could get it off the fabric. It was maintained the same as the previous units, the only difference was the strict use of store-bought distilled water.After about a week of trying to clean it repeatedly, and piles of ruined fabric, I decided to order a new one and this is the new model. This one arrived in early to mid April and we immediately went back to tap water as the manual advises. Right away we noticed there are major design issues with this model.For years people have begged for an auto-shut-off feature and Rowenta added it to this model. Unfortunately they think it needs to shut off within 5 minutes. You can forget about stepping away to change the wash over, by the time you do that the iron has begun to shut down and needs to restart. If you're doing lots of small sewing work that requires iron - sew - iron - sew, you may as well use a different iron because you will wait longer between each step for it to heat up again.The steam trigger used to be a manual button which stopped delivering steam the second you let go of the button. This makes sense and seems like the safer way to make a steam appliance. This model appears to be electronic and has a mind of its own. If you press the steam trigger once, and then press it again one or more times in too rapid a succession, the iron will get caught in a loop of pumping out steam in rapid little bursts and this will continue for a while relative to the number of times you pressed the trigger. Press it 3 times too fast, you might get 5 seconds of burst, press it 8 times and you might get 27 seconds of bursts. There is no way to stop it once it starts, you just have to stand there and hold the iron until it stops and try not to over-steam your clothes, or yourself, or whatever might be in the path of the iron. This seems like a major safety issue, which totally negates the added super fast auto-shut-off feature.And finally, the sludge... Just like previous models, this one spews brown liquid and brown fuzz (yay!) all over the place periodically. I don't mean it "spits"... I mean it POURS out. Curiously, it isn't black water/fuzz like the last one, which only ran on distilled water. Some days it does it, some days it does not. There is no real pattern to it. The only way to guarantee you'll get brown sludge is to run the iron on any temperature below MAX. Anything less than the hottest temp, and there's a 95% chance you will get brown water/fuzz. But even on MAX, it's a 50/50 chance from one day to the next. So today is July 1, 2020, and this iron has lasted from April 15 to June 27 before the brown water/fuzz started, by far the shortest time from new out of the box to sludge of any of the previous models I have had. For the last three days, no matter what is done to clean it, nor only using Max temp setting, it's all brown muck, all the time.I've calculated the amount of ruined garments and fabric I've had over the years, and I'm placing it somewhere around $1500. Coincidentally, that's about what I have spent on all these Rowenta Steam Stations. Well Rowenta... never again. There are very few companies that make tank style steam irons, but it's time to try one of the others. This is the last Rowenta I will own.