I want an iron!

Carina_Pieries

Any recommendations? I have a tefal aquaspeed at present and its ruining my clothes with chalky bits :mad: plus I need to fill it up every 5 mins. Dont really want to speed more than £60. Any recs would be much appreciated!

Carina

Factor25

Tesco are doing the Russell Hobbs Steamglide 2400 advanced for half price at £65 its still available online now and I saw it instore yesterday. Its a steam generator and although ive only used mine a couple of times it seems brilliant so far.

awacko

Just recently bought a Morphy Richards 40708 comfigrip iron from Co-op electrical for £22.99 (down from £39.99) (and free delivery) which I would recommend.

ZootHornRollo

Carina_Pieries wrote: »

Any recommendations? I have a tefal aquaspeed at present and its ruining my clothes with chalky bits :mad: plus I need to fill it up every 5 mins. Dont really want to speed more than £60. Any recs would be much appreciated!

Carina

not much of an expert on ironing but are the chalky bits not limescale?

in which case this will happen with any iron unless you descale it or use distilled water

Carina_Pieries

ZootHornRollo wrote: »

not much of an expert on ironing but are the chalky bits not limescale?

in which case this will happen with any iron unless you descale it or use distilled water

I live in a hard water area and this iron has a one touch cleaning button but it doesnt get rid of the limescale . I know my mum has descaled it as well but its still not working properly.

Thanks for the recs everyone, I shall check them out

burnsguitarman

I bought a Philips Azur 4200 a couple of months ago, as a replacement for my last Philips Azur (5 yrs old at least) It has a "Careeza" soleplate, and I can honestly say that I always use it on a cotton setting for everything, and that it has never marked or stuck to anything. I have never had to clean the soleplate at all. I recently bought a tefal generator costing over £100 and it isn't a patch on my iron, it sticks to clothes even on low temperatures and I have had to clean on the 3 occasions I used it, so its resigned to the cupboard now. I paid only £35 from Currys for my iron which was cheap, but think I've seen it even cheaper in Empire Direct. Good Luck!

Carina_Pieries

Thanks burnsguitarman, I was actually looking at the Philips Azur range. The new ones are quite pricey! You are looking at something like £85 to get it insured as well from somewhere like Argos. I always take out the additional warranty! Hmmmm I dont think I will buy another tefal, this is the second one thats stopped working.

Badger_Lady

I love my Tesco Value iron! Bought it a year ago for £4.95, but I believe it's dropped in price since...

To stop the "chalky bits", turn the iron down to "min" and leave it switched on (but barely warm) for an hour.

Carina_Pieries

Wow under a fiver, now thats a bargain! Thanks for the tip about stopping chalky bits.