Water for your irons
#31
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Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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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.
#33
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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
#35
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Location: Kenai, Alaska
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I always use distilled as we have a water softener that requires salt. All the irons I have purchased recommend distilled.
Sorry, But, I have heard that using the distilled water helps.
I now use it exclusively in my Iron. And, I find it works very well. But, if I use starch, I find I get those little spots as well. Could yours be from your starch? I also have to buy it for one of my dogs also. He gets bladder stones. So, I always have distilled water on hand.
I now use it exclusively in my Iron. And, I find it works very well. But, if I use starch, I find I get those little spots as well. Could yours be from your starch? I also have to buy it for one of my dogs also. He gets bladder stones. So, I always have distilled water on hand.
#36
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It's a lot cheaper to buy distilled water for the iron than it is to buy all those bottles of water to drink.
#37
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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.
#38
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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.
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