kraftykimberly

Love love my Rowentas but I never put water in mine, I grab my handy dandy spritzer bottle and spray water exactly where I need steam. Never a leaky iron this way :-)

wraez

Hmmmm I believe my Rowenta says NOT to use distilled water, but tap water instead. I'll have to reread my directions.

wraez

There you go .... guess I remembered correctly.

dsch

I totally agree; my Rowenta started to leak after less than a year so I just quit with the tap water in it (never used distilled) & went to the spray bottle. My directions also said to use only tap water, never distilled.

Morag

We have lime (leaves everything with a white film) in our water so my coffee pot and Rowenta Iron get distilled water in them.

K.P.

I agree with this response, they are not worth the price and always, always start leaking water, no matter what kind I use; In my opinion, not a good value.

janetter

Agreed that is all i use now and the iron doesn't hate me if water is left in it in between jobs My Iron is a Rowenta also

commonthread

I have had problems too, with leaking. The instructions do say not to use distilled, I get well water that is good (not from my house ,too much iron!) Does anyone know why distilled would cause the leaking (someone wrote that here)? I now just use a spray bottle also but it's not as good really as steam from the iron.
Another issue I have is that most of the time the iron will not turn itself back on when it goes into "hibernation mode". I've had this problem with several of them. Anyone else?

Morag

I have had my Rowenta for 17 years now and have not had any issues of any kind with it.... I'm happy and will continue to treat it as I always have ....

Fixedgearhead

I think any large water source, would be fine. A lake, A river, or even the deep blue sea. I had nothing but problems with Rowenta leaking, and think that throwing them in any of the above, would suffice.
John