Originally Posted by bizzibee

After years of salivating over a Rowenta iron I finally broke down and bought one. I loved it for the first few months and then it started spitting water. I faithfully used only distilled water and cleaned it often. I am so disappointed. I attended a quilting seminar where I used a small steam iron made by Sunbeam and I liked it so much that I bought one. I paid less than $20.00 for it and that included shipping. I have been using it now for about 3 months and haven't had one problem with it. It has way more steam and gets hotter than my Rowenta. Just my opinion but Rowenta is not the iron it used to be. Read some of the posts on this forum and you will find lots of thoughts about them.