ALDI/Steam Generator Iron Set/39.99

sillygoose

Hi all,
Got the Aldi Generator last time and its been a massive time saver. Very good price too. Previously we had a sophisticated Tefal Generator that cost over twice as much but it broke down in a couple of weeks! The Simpler Aldi one is still going strong.

This is the technical reasoning for those wondering. Water is constantly boiled in the tank, giving off the full 80 grams of steam ALL the time, in fact we only have ours on about halfway usually - more than enough! The steam goes down a tube in the cable to the actual iron. So you are not carrying all that water in the iron so its lighter. The plate on the iron is also electrically heated as normal so you can have any combination of plate temperature and steam output you wish, totally independent of each other.

In a normal iron, water is dripped onto the back of the hot plate, it boils to steam and comes out the plate. This cools the plate so that limits the steam. If the plate is too cool and the drips too fast, you get the familiar drips and spots on your ironing. You don't get this with a generator. The generator iron has a light button on the handle, when you want steam you press and an electric valve opens in the base and sends it up, you soon get used to it.

You really need to use distilled/deionised water which is a pain or it will eventually scale up depending on your water. You can use ordinary water but have to accept that it will shorten the boilers life, at these prices a few years service may be still worth it.

They can take several minutes to warm up and if they run dry it can take ages for the pressure to drop enough to release the safety lock so you can top up. Fill up before starting or start ironing the stuff that needs a lot of steam first and leave the non steam stuff until last in case it runs out. A litre of water does last quite a while though.

HTH
Rob

king_3

It is a shame I have not got time today to pick one today. Just hope there are some left for me.

cheepskate_2

hi
just got and used the aldi steam generator iron All i can say is fantastic so crisp, i have not had any other exp of other generator irons , but always have bought expensive normal irons < last one was nearly double the gen. and nowhere near as good

plonky_2

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

Got to Aldi Bootle at 11am and all ironing boards had gone! Anyone live in or around Merseyside and know of an Aldi which has plentiful stocks of them?

The one on Smithdown Road had loads of both items

Shez

Done my ironing last night with the Aldi one, Great!!! I'm really impressed, irons beautifully and with ease. The water lasted ages with one filling - my old steam iron (Tefal) only has a small tank so have to keep filling up all the time!
Thanks Sillygoose for note about using distilled water - good point.

I wouldnt have paid between £100-150 for one as I think thats alot of money for an iron - but at £39 its great value as it costs just as much as my other normal steam irons have.

The only thing I would say is they are obviously bigger so I'm not sure how I'm going to store it? maybe others can suggest what they do with theirs? If you have a utility room (which I dont) then I suppose you can just leave it set up.
and you have to wait 8 minutes for water to heat up, whereas a normal steam iron you plug in and go. I can imagine that the men in my household probably wont want to bother lugging out all the time and would find the other one easier to grab out.
but think women doing piles of ironing would find it much better.

Ironing board was good, very lightweight, took mine back as it had a rubber foot missing, when I got back they only had one left! so they are very popular! - althought the security guard did say they still had some out the back - so worth asking if they are not actually out on show.

Certainly good bargain at the price.

Aldi Dagenham still had boards in stock. HTH

Clairog

OK, confessions of my daftness - is distilled water filtered water or something else?

Claire

Edinburghlass_2

Clairog, you shouldn't need to use anything other than tap water in Scotland

Reading this I might need to nip to Aldi but maybe too late

Clairog

Thanks - How are you edinburghlass? Not spoken much since the great Argos days

I would recommend the iron as its really good. Its my OH's birthday next week and he gets landed with the ironing so he tried it last night making cheap gags about being bought on iron for his birthday!!!
I'm not that cruel, I bought him a table top ice maker which I'm hoping he will appreciate more

Hope your well - did you get anything from this last Argos sale? I got a few bits and bobs but have to confess my "Boots" addiction these days
Claire

deanos

Yes661 on Sky Ch.655 have one for £29.99 + 5% discount for buying online.

http://www.pricecrash.tv/prodDetail.asp?id=15169



Features
Large see-through reservoir, 1 litre capacity
Adjustable temperature and steam control knob
Powerful burst of steam function
Dry/steam function
Termostatic controlled indicator light
AC 220V-240V, 50Hz, 2000w
Steam power: 30gm/min
Adjustable temperature range: 110˚C-230˚C

nickinoo

Just picked up 1 of these in Aldi, Lowestoft. They had about 20 irons left & at least 10 ironing boards (in both colours).