- Iron, Ultimate Steam Pro Stainless Steel Soleplate Professional Steam Station for Clothes, 1800 Watts, 1.3L Removable Tank, Boiler Technology, Fast Heat Up, Black Clothes Iron, DG8668

I read many reviews on this iron and I think they have upgraded this model. First, the temperature dial is not that easy to move so brushing your hand on it when picking it up will not move the dial. My iron did not leak at all. I filled it to the MAX level and turned it on. It did not leak before it heated up or while it was hot. I even put the iron horizontal and there was no leaking. The steam function worked fine. The instructions were very informative with pictures. The wool setting of two dots (eco) will not steam unless the steam setting switch is also on eco. Then a smaller amount of steam is produced. It says that in the instructions. The auto off is on when the auto off red light on top of the handle is flashing. When that red light is not flashing the auto off feature is not on and the iron is working on the setting you have it on. To reactivate the iron from being off you just move the iron horizontally back and forth a couple times and it comes back on. The light that is very hard to find and see is the "Pilot" light. The one that tells you the iron is heating up. It is located on the left side bottom of the handle and it is sort of back under the center of the iron and it is a very faint orange. In order to see it you have to look for it and tip the iron a bit to see it. It is on only when the iron is heating up. The instructions say not to iron until that light goes off. This iron's spray and burst buttons worked fine. This iron steam presses very nicely on a flat wool ironing pad. I have not tried the vertical steaming because I don't have any clothes or items to vertically press. I sew and quilt and I use an iron for my sewing projects. So I use the highest cotton setting when I iron and this does great on that setting. It does glide over fabrics very well. I did not time the time it took to heat up. But I would guess it got to the cotton setting in a minute or two. It is an expensive iron but it has a lot of nice features like how the cord is attached to the iron on a pivoting ball to help the cord stay out of the way. The cord is about 7.5 feet long. The iron is not too heavy and not too light. It does have the calcium cleaner on it for easy cleaning of the iron. It pressed serious creases in fabric that was folded many times so it was 12 layers of fabric. Ironed it flat with the cotton setting and burst of steam. So far I like this iron. :)

Rowenta did a great job with their packaging for environmentally conscious consumers like myself. The iron does have some weight on it, just over 3lbs, but it was still very comfortable when I used it. The weight is essential for heavier fabrics. The stainless steel Soleplate looked flawless. The iron was tested for leaking and so far No leaking whatsoever after testing it myself after filling the tank just below the MAX line. Instructions were easy to follow. I set the setting to desired setting, in my case, I was ironing 100% linen sheets. I glided the iron on the fabric and used the steam Boost button on stubborn wrinkles. It left incredible results, minimal to no wrinkles on the fabric. No leaking during or after. The iron seems of good quality overall, wish there was no plastic components, but not a deal breaker. Value for money will depend on how it performs in the next several months and years. Cleanup was easy, instructions recommend letting the iron cool completely before emptying any water left inside the tank, and store upright. I plan to test the iron for the next several months on different fabrics and update of any changes if any.

LOVE this steam iron. I love that you can add water to it while its on (our old Rowenta had to be turned off and cooled down before you could add more water; when on quite a bit of steam would leak out of the water fill cap and there was NO auto shut off). This iron is greatly improved, it doesn’t leak, it turns off after a certain amount of time automatically, and you can use it to iron with or without steam or just as a steamer for more delicate fabrics or curtains. Excellent iron, and wayyy better than a regular iron.

Let me summarize this iron in one word: CRAP. This is the 5th Rowenta Steam Station I've owned since 2015. The previous units were the two models prior to this one (one white/blue, and one white/purple). On average they have lasted about 18 months or so before they began continually spewing brown water all over the clothes and ironing board. That was despite cleaning the sole plates regularly, using tap water as emphatically recommended in Rowenta's user manual, and decalcifying them and cleaning out the tanks regularly. On the last previous model, purchased in November 2019, we decided to try using distilled water only and from the start. We were thinking maybe the issue is the tap water after all, even though Rowenta says to only use tap water... Well by the first week of April it was spewing not brown water, but black water, and a new feature... black fuzz. That fuzz would stain instantly before you could get it off the fabric. It was maintained the same as the previous units, the only difference was the strict use of store-bought distilled water. After about a week of trying to clean it repeatedly, and piles of ruined fabric, I decided to order a new one and this is the new model. This one arrived in early to mid April and we immediately went back to tap water as the manual advises. Right away we noticed there are major design issues with this model. For years people have begged for an auto-shut-off feature and Rowenta added it to this model. Unfortunately they think it needs to shut off within 5 minutes. You can forget about stepping away to change the wash over, by the time you do that the iron has begun to shut down and needs to restart. If you're doing lots of small sewing work that requires iron - sew - iron - sew, you may as well use a different iron because you will wait longer between each step for it to heat up again. The steam trigger used to be a manual button which stopped delivering steam the second you let go of the button. This makes sense and seems like the safer way to make a steam appliance. This model appears to be electronic and has a mind of its own. If you press the steam trigger once, and then press it again one or more times in too rapid a succession, the iron will get caught in a loop of pumping out steam in rapid little bursts and this will continue for a while relative to the number of times you pressed the trigger. Press it 3 times too fast, you might get 5 seconds of burst, press it 8 times and you might get 27 seconds of bursts. There is no way to stop it once it starts, you just have to stand there and hold the iron until it stops and try not to over-steam your clothes, or yourself, or whatever might be in the path of the iron. This seems like a major safety issue, which totally negates the added super fast auto-shut-off feature. And finally, the sludge... Just like previous models, this one spews brown liquid and brown fuzz (yay!) all over the place periodically. I don't mean it "spits"... I mean it POURS out. Curiously, it isn't black water/fuzz like the last one, which only ran on distilled water. Some days it does it, some days it does not. There is no real pattern to it. The only way to guarantee you'll get brown sludge is to run the iron on any temperature below MAX. Anything less than the hottest temp, and there's a 95% chance you will get brown water/fuzz. But even on MAX, it's a 50/50 chance from one day to the next. So today is July 1, 2020, and this iron has lasted from April 15 to June 27 before the brown water/fuzz started, by far the shortest time from new out of the box to sludge of any of the previous models I have had. For the last three days, no matter what is done to clean it, nor only using Max temp setting, it's all brown muck, all the time. I've calculated the amount of ruined garments and fabric I've had over the years, and I'm placing it somewhere around $1500. Coincidentally, that's about what I have spent on all these Rowenta Steam Stations. Well Rowenta... never again. There are very few companies that make tank style steam irons, but it's time to try one of the others. This is the last Rowenta I will own.

En febrero compré esta plancha y ahora ya se me descompuso, la verdad así no vale la pena porque es mucho lo que se paga para que en 7 meses la tenga que llevar a componer y lo peor es que no hay garantía.🫤

The product was delivered with a US plug despite being sold on Amazon UK, and nothing about this being mentioned in the description. The representative at Rowenta customer services was rude and told me he had no idea why.

I hesitated for weeks before I bought this after having dealt with a bad Rowenta iron for years Did I really want to buy another of their products? However I am so glad that I did. This is the best iron a gay man could ever have. And the best product ever. I never write reviews but needed to on this purchase. All the positive things that people say are true. All the negative things are crap. This is the real deal. A couple things I wanted to know before I purchased…how long is the steam cord? About 7 feet. Can you put the steam generator on the floor…yes, you get all the steam you want and can reach to all the difficult spots. The best thing is that you have continuous steam if you want and don’t need to dampen clothes beforehand. This is a real time saver.

This is the 2nd iron i have received and they both worked for about a week and then have stopped working altogether so I have had to send them both back. I am not very happy with this.

Probably the best iron on the market . I love cotton bedding but it is fiendishly hard to get the creases out , this iron smooth glides over cotton and really gets deep creases out . Marvellous. I also like a heavy iron in my hand , if you are elderly , maybe this iron would be a bit sturdy for you , I know my elderly mother would say it is too heavy for her , especially if you are doing a marathon family iron . I love it and give it 5* .