My problem was that one of my kids who was helping clean and decorate the basement for a graduation party set my cold, full of water iron flat on my beautiful maple sewing machine cabinet in my out of the way sewing room. Three days later when I could get back to it, I had a nice iron shaped, bubbled finish on my cabinet. I was sick about that...the finish peeled and peeled until the iron shape was raw wood. It is still that way 8 years later. In fact, my son and I were just talking about it the other night when he was visiting with me as I sewed. He now claims that he took down the ironing board, and his ditzy girlfriend at the time must have set the iron there.