Which iron should you choose?

Who here asked about the Bosch TDA703021A iron? This very iron started dripping six months later ... now Deutschelectroservice is repairing it in Kiev ... when I came to the service, a man in front of me handed over the same one. I thought: reliable, high quality .... yeah I want to buy a replacement BRAUN TexStyle 730 (SI 17780) now. They say that it is not worse and cheaper.

Subtracted that the irons on ceramics do not cope with ironing T-shirts, for example, if you iron without steam, that is, dry. What does it depend on, maybe a stainless steel sole will cope with this better or without a difference, both are bad?

[Alexei]

Alexei, and you fundamentally iron without steam? I don’t iron anything without steam. I see no reason to torture myself. A stainless steel without steam will also be rather bad to iron. It does not depend on the sole, but on the fabric and the degree of its moisture, that is, how dry the thing is before ironing.

What does it depend on

Depends on how dry the fabric is. If it is dry, it can only be smoothed by dampening it with water from a spray bottle.
The iron has nothing to do with it. Sometimes it is advised to iron a slightly damp cloth without drying it completely, and sometimes right after wringing it out in the washer.

And it depends on the type of fabric. There are those that can never be smoothed by anything, even wet ones - stains will remain

Therefore, a spray of water in the iron + temperature control are very useful additions.
And non-stick outsole.

Yes, and it is better to fill in clean water, from under a good filter - there will never be scale inside

[Alexei]

Alexei, and you fundamentally iron without steam? I don’t iron anything without steam. I see no reason to torture myself. A stainless steel without steam will also be rather bad to iron. It does not depend on the sole, but on the fabric and the degree of its moisture, that is, how dry the thing is before ironing.

It's just that I almost never ironed myself, and then life circumstances appeared, I sit by choosing irons and have already seen several reviews from irons that they do not iron at all without steam, because of this I thought what it means there are those who iron, not in vain so they wrote)

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Thank you!

[Alexei]

Alexei, most fabrics without steam do not iron well. For this, the fabric must remain slightly underdried. The tumble dryer even has an iron-on option. Therefore, you must choose an iron with steam and a spray. Although my mother likes to spray water from a bottle more, I have to adjust from the iron with aiming.He sprinkles a little further, so it can be difficult to get to a specific fold. My iron has a stainless steel sole now. Ironing normally. At the iron, you should pay attention to the weight - the more, the less you need to press on the iron. It is difficult to smooth problematic fabrics with light irons.

And my mother and I pour distilled water into our current iron. Previously, water was taken filtered and after boiling. But still, salt deposits began to accumulate in the iron. I read on this topic and realized that if salts are present in the water, they will precipitate sooner or later anyway. The water evaporates without salts. And those salts that did not precipitate during boiling gradually accumulate in the remaining water, i.e. their concentration increases. And all the same, upon reaching the critical mass, they will begin to precipitate. The iron was bought a year ago - until no scale spits and the holes are all clean. Although the previous irons during this time were gradually overgrown with scale.

Check out the Brown brand - we like their irons more than others. Our irons from the old ironing board flew regularly to the floor, so we had to change them every two or three years

[Anchic]

Anchic
Thank you!

So I am choosing a new iron.After reading a bunch of reviews, I opted for 2 models: Philips Azure GC 4880 or 4887/30. The difference between them is in power: the first has 2800 W, the second has 3000 W, the difference in price is about 2.5 thousand. What do you think is worth overpaying for 200 W of power? It doesn’t affect the temperature of the iron during ironing, just the heating time of the iron?

People, how do you clean the sole of the iron? For three years the iron should be cleaned ... The instructions say that you can't clean it with vinegar, but what you can do is not written. Iron Philips with non-stick sole.

[Midnight lady]

Midnight lady, the last 10 years have not cleaned the soleplate of the iron - no need. In general, I used to clean with a special pencil.

how do you clean the sole of the iron

Iron pencil.

[Anchic]

Anchic, $ vetLana, Thank you. I once had such a pencil, I cleaned an old iron with it. I thought that it was possible and with improvised means, such as lemon, I decided to ask.