Originally Posted by
ekuw
My Rowenta is dying. It is probably about 1 -1 1/2 years old. The instructions said to use regular tap water, but I should have known better since our water leans hard. Anyway, I have to have it turned on the highest temperature for it to heat up now and steam. I am not going to get another one :-(
I'm just realizing what hard water can do to things. My glasses are all foggy from the dishwater. Then the the dishwasher didn't seem to be doing everything right. Once I learned about hard water(have only lived here 3 years) I ran a dishwasher cleaner through the machine many times which has made things somewhat better but glasses are still foggy. Oh, and I read that putting a bowl of vinegar in the dishwasher can help the foggy glass problem.
The answer to hard water is vinegar.
Next I'm going to clean my irons with vinegar as they don't seem to be as hot as they once were. I'm hoping this will bring them back to the hot temps I had been getting.