Ironing Water

spiddy100

Does anyone know a cheap source of deionised water? We seem to get through so much! If it's really 5l for £5 in Halfords that's more expensive than in Tesco (where it's only 1l bottles but they're less than £1).

Could I use tap water with a drop or two of vinegar to neutralise the limescale-ness? Would that kill my iron and/or make my clothes smell of vinegar?

Has anyone tried it?

Spendi

i use the tesco one, but as i do a lot of ironing it all adds up

seraphina

It's probably already been mentioned but the cheapest source of deionized water is your local garage - it's what you use to top up car batteries. Our local garage sells a litre for about 50p or thereabouts - add a few drops of lavender oil and you're away.

skintlass

Wow - I'm impressed at the people who have time to iron their bed-linen - I'd like mine ironed but I resent the half an hour (ish) it takes me to iron my clothes for the working week so I can't see me ironing my bedlinen (if anyone wants to volunteer however .... :-))

echo

been buying my water from wilko for years-forget how much but not expensive.we're hard water so you HAVE to use it.a long time ago i hadn't read the instructions with a new iron and shoved tap water in.didn't stop the iron from working but the spray function stopped working.can't get into a bed unless my sheets are ironed and it's sheer heaven.watching my mam ironing her bedlinen i always thought it's what everybody did-till i read summat on this board last yr.love ironing but not volunteering to do anybody else's!

spiddy100

Thanks all - we use the Tesco stuff which is only about 55p a litre anyway, but like Spendi says it goes fast!

Nienna_2

Ooohh!! I feel like ironing now!!

Congratulations you lot - I've never known anyone get me enthused about this chore before now! lol!!

*goes off to put some fabric softener into water and get happy smells*

ANNEGEDDES

does anyone user that fancy ironing water? just wondering if you could put essential oil mixed in with normal water?

huxley

never used fancy ironing water, but do keep a spray bottle of water with just a drop of two of lavender oil in to spray clothes when I am ironing if the clothes have had to be dried indoors (like today :-( ) so that they smell fresh.

yellowmonkey

Hi.

Have used it once and i think is a complete waste of money.

I did try once putting a little fabric conditioner in with the normal water but it seemed to clog up the holes.

What i use now is one of those plant spray things with either conditioner or fabreeze diluted and then spray that directly onto the clothes and then iron.

Works for me.

ym