The Ironing Board

tahrey

andymg wrote: »

This is becoming bit technical, cant believe people actually go through all this trouble

Weeeeelll, if you have an easier, quicker method of doing it, I'll be massively grateful. This week I had to give my ironing to my mum (quite gratefully, but I made a fuss as I'd prefer to be independent) to quiet her continual offers and to give myself a little temporal breathing room to get things straight.

A lot of the advice here, particularly on the last page and a bit, sounds eerily reminiscent of how she does it and the tips I've had passed down in-person... like a cat teaching her kittens how to hunt ... It would appear that that's just the way it's done, and men down the last couple centuries have owed their housebound wives a bigger debt of gratitude than they could actually have imagined. It's a git of a job, and indeed quite technical. Presumably once you get into it, it becomes a "just like riding a bike" kinda thing, but right now I am most definitely wobbling around on stabilisers.

Also if there's a way of hacking a "rinse hold" (or spin hold, drain hold, whatever you want to call it) mode onto an Indesit microprocessor-controlled washer-dryer, I'm up for trying it. All I have is "eco time" (what?), "intensive wash", "slow spin" and "delay start"... and misjudging the latter - or the weather - has put some epic creases into my work gear before... even the 100% polyester "non-iron" stuff!

alex21

twoflower169 wrote: »

Hi

Just a quick question, I was given one of those big steam irons with the water reservoir on the base (no instructions though), it needs descaling but I don't now how best to do it? It has a tube thingy that looks like it could be attached to something?

Its a tefal express, any ideas please, I love using this iron as it makes my DH's million shirts a week so much easier but I'm getting fed up off the random brown marks when using the steam!!!!!!!!!

Thanks TF

Mine does this if I don't let it heat up enough. I give it 10 minutes and have no problems. HTH:)

mattm4

I switched my tefal express for a garment steamer. Much safer and effective, no stains to worry about.
Matt.

wattapain

I live in a very hard water area, and I use the water from my condensing tumble dryer.
Otherwise it scales up in days, and I sure ain't gonna buy ironing water !!
I think it makes sense - water comes out of the clothes, goes back into them!!!

:T :j

giggles_alot

wattapain wrote: »

I live in a very hard water area, and I use the water from my condensing tumble dryer.
Otherwise it scales up in days, and I sure ain't gonna buy ironing water !!
I think it makes sense - water comes out of the clothes, goes back into them!!!

:T :j

I do that too :j

Sophiej

I would like to now if there is such a thing as a decent quality ironing board. So far I havent found one.

nickh300

If someone could pop round mine and demonstrate some of these ironing tips i would be really grateful. I should begin to understand when you've gone through a full load. Thanks guys

ManxAvenger

Don't use vapouresse in a steam press! It don't work, believe me!

jsalv

Ironing is therapeutic! My DAD does all the ironing to the football on the radio, whilst my MUM has a glass of wine.. CRAZYYY!

Smokes99999

Hi i used hobbrite to clean the baseplat of my tefal express iron while it was cold. this worked, but I filled some of the steam holes with the hobrite. any tipps for unclogging the iron?