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Old 04-18-2010, 07:32 PM
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Until now, I've never owned an iron that I really liked. Over the past 45+ years, I've owned inexpensive ones and expensive ones ... regardless of price and features, they were all mediocre or worse.

A couple of weeks ago, when the latest mediocre (but expensive) one started leaking huge quantities of water, I went out and bought a Rowenta pressure iron and steamer. It's not the latest model (that costs twice as much and is not worth it to me), but I sure like it. I pressed a huge piece of fabric (6 yards) with it in about 1/10th of the time it would have taken me with a conventional iron and with much better results. I like the fact that the iron itself has no water reservoir. My initial problem was finding a level place to set it at the end of my ironing board. Despite what Rowenta says, the unit does NOT fit on a metal extension on the end of the ironing board. So I found a little stereo cabinet I had stashed away; it is just perfect size and height to keep the iron/reservoir on. The cabinet has wheels on it and the steamer unit's electrical cord is 12 feet long so it's working out well for me.
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