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Given the amount of steam I use on most projects, a tank/generator iron is a must for home use, and summat cheap and droppable best for taking out and about!
Steam generators I’ve looked at are these:
http://www.kitchkof.com/productDetails. … uctID=1848
(small tank – less than 1lt)http://www.rgk.co.uk/acatalog/Steam_Gen … #aCLASS150
(fifth one down. Disadvantage is safety cut-off switch)http://www.freenet.ltd.uk/details.asp?ProductID=34313
(Has almost everything I need…)Not quite ready for one of these: http://www.freenet.ltd.uk/details.asp?ProductID=21450
Not too keen on the Teflon sole plate, anyway…Any advice on a brat-proof cheapie would be good…
Re: New ISE 5
(Kate struggles to top of laundry mountain)
It’s OK – I was just having a Moment there! Having spent last week in school as a sewing machine and brat wrangler, nerves are a leeetle frayed! 😛
I liked the specs and the philosophy so much that I’m prepared to wait, but actually KNOWING a release date would be grand. Since I last posted I’ve had to deal with the fall-out from a self-immolating coffee machine that cremated my kitchen work surface and floor, cascading molten metal all over the place, and a similar tendency in the the computer, which fried the graphics card, as well as the FTL sewing and the kids laminating the iron to the ironing cloth… I think I’ll go pester an iron discussion forum with that one!
Right now I’m procrastinating as I should be reupholstering an ironing board that has seen one too many dozes of fusible interfacing, and had the iron left on it long enough to raise a strong smell of burnt toast…
Some days my life closely resembles a Tom & Jerry cartoon…
Attempting wash last night has determined that the Whirlpoo is really dead: it sounded like I was spinning bricks in it rather than a half load of darks! So, can’t wait for the new ISE5, and need to order a new washing machine tomorrow! We’re going to have a talk with the Rochester ISE seller and see what he says in person before finally deciding between it and the Bosch.
Erk! I hate this process… But I can’t wait another 3-4 weeks.
Re: New washing machine advice needed…
Thank you, that is very helpful information. Whether or not we can last another month is entirely up to the machine… It’s a long time dying, so it may eke outs its miserable existence until then. It punishes out ears mightily with every spin and the cats are giving it squinty-eyed looks, as only cats can…
I think the price I was quoted was for the C1555. I don’t mind paying the bit more for the newer model, and another month gives me another job paid for (re-enactors wedding: 19th C Royal Artillery uniforms for a couple of kids!) to add dosh to the available pile!:lol:
Big Sis did history, and followed Dad through uni doing the same… I loved the geography as we did physical geography (geomorphology, weather systems and plate tectonics and stuff – fascinating), economic geography (bit boring) and historical geography, which was almost as much fun as art.
Re: New washing machine advice needed…
OK, I’ll toss a coin! Sounds like the way I chose Geography rather than History to study for A level… 😀
Yup, that’s me! That’s my ‘It’s four in the morning, freezing cold, I’m wearing an Elizabethan corset, and I’m knackered’ face!:eeek:
The ‘My washer is dying, can you help?’ face is much friendlier. You don’t want to see the ‘My washer is 3 hours old and already broken down’ face, which is how the last one started its career! :angry4:
Re: New washing machine advice needed…
I rang the most local stockist of the ISE5…
They do it for £399, including delivery, installation, removal of old machine, and usually within the week… Sell lots, no complaints so far.
OK, now what? ALMOST local, a little more expensive than the Bosch… If the Bosch is Spanish built rather than German built, it gets even more tempting!
Now you see why I hate doing this stuff? I could be sewing! 😈
Re: New washing machine advice needed…
I don’t know enough about washing machines to know which ones are cheap & cheerful and which are cheap & nasty, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt… I know where I am with sewing machines, and which ‘entry level’ light weight budget machines will sew and which won’t, but having only bought two washing machines in the last 25 years… Well, you see my problem!
While I’d love the ISE 10, it is beyond my budget at present, and I don’t have time to save more as the current Whirlpoo is off it’s last legs and crawling on the stumps…
The local independent shop isn’t an ISE dealer (I’d have to go to Rochester or Maidstone), but does sell the Bosch WAA24169 for £329. I’m quite keen to support this shop, as it is local, and has served me very well in the past, for washing machines, tumble dryer, vacuum cleaners, and at least one fridge/freezer.
