Returned my Shark iron!
#61
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 29
May I continuer your rant? We also have too many choices to make with any product. Look at the cereal aisle, or soaps, etc. I would prefer a few good ones to choose from and stop all this nonsense of inferior things. OK my rant is over too.
#62
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 6,430
I have had 2 Black and Decker irons for 15 years and both died. I went looking, after reading all the comments on the board about irons, and after examining them all, I bought another Black and Decker at Kmart for a very reasonable price. It works really well. Good luck.
#64
Originally Posted by Jamiestitcher62
Wait...what? You put rainwater in your iron? Rain has all kinds of particles in it that could stain your fabric. Aren't you nervous?
#65
Originally Posted by Mariposa
I have a Black & Decker Classic, and I love it! :)
#66
I too am having iron trouble :cry: I bought a Shark iron at KMart it leaked.... a lot...and turned off while I was using it..grrrr. I returned that one. Have tried 3 other types of irons and returned them. I really am not usually hard to please but I am having trouble finding one I like. The one I liked was a Rowenta (sp) It lasted a year and I loved it until it quit heating. I called a service number for it and the woman told me they can't repair them. So because of that I didn't buy another one, imagine paying so much and they can't be repaired. I will continue with my search for a good iron at a reasonable price.
#67
I was reading my operation manual on my Rowenta and it says that the iron is made to use tap water, not to use 100% distilled water, altho depending on hardness of water, you could add 50% distilled water. The iron will leak and dribble if tap water isn't used.
After reading some of the posts about leaking, I couldn't help but wonder if we've not reading our manual and adding the wrong water to our irons.
just wondering
warm quilt hugs, sue in CA
After reading some of the posts about leaking, I couldn't help but wonder if we've not reading our manual and adding the wrong water to our irons.
just wondering
warm quilt hugs, sue in CA
#69
We read all the reviews on irons from Consumer Guide, and settled on The Black & Decker 26. I love it, at less than 1/3 of the price of a rowenta it does everything just as well. I had a Rowenta and it leaked all the time from the steam plate, but this one does not, and it stays on longer on the autyo shut off. Really felt like a good deal
#70
I have a rowenta that I bought several years ago at a yard sale for $3.00. I dropped it and the back plastic broke off and it melted my carpet that stuck to the sole plate. I cleaned it, stuck the plastic piece on and it is still going strong.
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