Exciting topic alert...talk to me about steam generators

[whoseboots]

Sunday afternoon. Huge mountain of ironing. My iron has sparked and tripped all the fuses .
Before I hot foot it to the shops for a replacement, would anyone with a steam generator tell me why they're better please. Thanks

Can you borrow one from a friend to see? I love mine, because I utterly hate ironing. It seems to get through a pile of ironing much faster. I bought one of the early ones about 16ish years ago. I'm now on no.3, they are expensive but if mine broke, it'd be replaced with similar. You do need an open mesh type ironing board because the increased moisture gets trapped otherwise.

You get better results for much less effort.

They're amazing! We got given an ancient Phillips top of the range one from family, then when it finally died I bought a cheaper Phillips one to replace it and regret it slightly - it's still better than a regular iron but not incredibly, if I did it again I would buy a really good Phillips one again on sale.

That said, DH and I both need ironing for shirts / uniform plus dcs needing school shirts, and I generally do prefer ironing things like tea towels and pillow cases, which I know lots of people don't worry about. If you are a low-ironing family then you'll never get value from it, they are not cheap.

I iron EVERYTHING! Friends seem to get away with very little ironing, so no chance of borrowing one from them (great suggestion though!). The cost is off putting, especially as I seem to need a new iron roughly every year, so worrying the same might happen with a generator which would be very costly!

You shouldn't need a new generator each year - they tend to come with 2 year warranty as standard, the last one we had lasted 9 years and two international moves before packing it in...

Ooh, two year warranty... that makes it a lot more doable.

Grown up son does his own ironing. When steam generator iron packed up a few years ago, I dug out old steam iron. He was willing to buy another steam generator iron after a week.

It's hard to go back once you get used to them.

I have used one for 10 years, they make ironing less awful. I gave my mum (a woman who point blank refused to iron anything) my old one and now she happily does the ironing.