I got tired of trying to remember not to use tap water, so I just use a dry iron and a fine mist spray bottle when I need it, and I never put tap water in my spray bottle. The tap water here has an extremely strong chlorine odor. Distilled water can stay in the spray bottle without getting nasty for a long time, so that is what I use.

makes sense to me.

I saw a post by Nancy Zieman a while back and she had someone explaining the insides of modern irons and that person said to use filtered water as in Brita - tap water is not the same for everyone. Distilled had issues. Anyway I am using Brita water

I use a fine mist spray bottle rather than putting water in my iron. No spots on the fabric that way and my iron (a cheap Black and Decker) is still going strong after 20 years or so.

Rob

I always use distilled as we have a water softener that requires salt. All the irons I have purchased recommend distilled.

It's a lot cheaper to buy distilled water for the iron than it is to buy all those bottles of water to drink.

Some irons say to use distilled water and some say don't. I'd read that using filtered water helps stop the spitting water from an iron so I tried it with my Rowenta which had been a terrible spitter. It worked. Used a Brita filter and fill up an empty distilled water container.

That's what I said upthread - especially for modern irons and tap water from one water to the next is not the same. Some water is harder naturally and some is soft. Where we used to live, our water company used water from artesian wells. It was delicious to drink and probably not the same chemicals as water from a place that gets it from a river. The water here comes from a lake and tastes very different. I use a Brita for drinking water and to put in my iron when I want steam. So far, so good.

another vote for a spray bottle with distilled water, i use a cheap big box iron and a cheap spray bottle.

Same here. I stopped putting water in my iron. Just use a spray bottle instead.