Rowenta, 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 waited a couple weeks to write a review. So far so great really. Love it.It does take a couple minutes to warm up which is not a problem. Excellent steam for long periods when I need to hang and steam something. I thought I would miss having steam constantly coming out without triggering like my old irons but I find the easy trigger control steaming better. More control really. There's two steam mode buttons. Econ and max. After trying both I use econ which is less steam for normal ironing and max mode for heavy fabrics or when I steam a hanging shirt or whatever. Great amount of steam comes out for as long as I need.We love the iron and hope it lasts a long time.

If you iron a lot or like to ,ake fast work of ironing this is the best iron ever. I iron my sheets and can do 2 pillow cases one bottom and one top sheet in 20 minutes and that is amazing. The cork handle is so great and the iron is lite and for me with having two shoulder replacements I am impressed

I've just received it and I have to say it is AMAZING! If you work with a lot of fabric—quilters, sewists, crafters—this is exactly what you need. I iron a significant amount of fabric, and after washing, it becomes incredibly wrinkled. It is exhausting and extremely time-consuming.The steam is much more powerful, the iron itself is significantly lighter than my other Rowentas, and the cork handle is much easier to grip. Heats quickly, love the pointed tip for finer seams.Yes, it is not cheap, but if you iron a lot, it pays for itself quickly.

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.

I iron a lot, always have. It was frustrating to have to fill the iron up with water for steam. This system irons for hours without the need for a fill up. I also sew and ironing is essential. I highly recommend this system.

The Rowenta Stainless Steel Soleplate Steam Iron is the best steamer I've ever owned. It produces excellent steam, doesn’t leak, and leaves no stains on clothing. I use it daily, ensuring my clothes are crisp and well-presented, especially during the summer. It's worth every cent and is easy to use and clean

The Steam iron makes ironing easy and "fun" according to my wife. However we are having this problem lately with the low light sensor. After a few minutes following turning it on, the low water light comes on blinking and you can no longer use the unit. There are two obvious reasons, one : there is no water, two: the blue water tank was not placed correctly. But what if the lights stays on even after you filled the blue tank and placed firmly? At some point the light comes flushing as soon as you plugged in and turn the unit on, nothing you can do makes the light go away. After searching online and reading all related post, I couldn't find a satisfying answer.The nearest Rowenta service center being 2 hours away and we being beyond the warranty period, I took the back side of the steamer out, removing 5 "star" screws. Initially it didn't look like something I could fix. But then I noticed two pieces detached from steam tank, dangling freely. They are connected to the buttons on the back, the ones for the low water and calc. So, I soldered them in place and it solved the problem! (My first soldering experience,by the way)It was a lousy job from Rowenta attaching those wires loosely. The product manual suggests filling up the steam tank every now and then, and shake it up to clean up any residual deposits. I guess the wires came loose when it was shaken.Anyway this is to help understand what might be wrong with your unit; not a recommendation to disassemble the unit by yourself, especially if you are still under warranty.