Cleaning a Rowenta Iron

When I clean an iron soleplate, I usually use the Faultless Hot Iron product and have been pleased. It is inexpensive and does a good job for ordinary cleaning issues. Now I have an iron with a badly damaged sole plate and while the Faultless did a great job on one iron, it did not work on that damaged one. The Rowenta sole plate is shiny stainless steel. There is a 'special Rowenta cleaner' available, but the cost is much greater(about $9.50 vs. $1.50) so I have not used it. I wonder if I should bite the bullet and pay the $$ for the special cleaner, or if I should try other means. Suggestions welcome. Thanks!

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Pat in Virginia
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Don't tell the Iron Police, but twice I've cleaned my Rowenta with a green scratchy pot scrubber, and then a Brillo pad, with soap, when it got a ton of crud on it from I don't know what. It has a stainless steel soleplate and gentler methods hadn't worked. It still irons fine, smooth as it can be.

Good luck!

Dogmom

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dogmom

You might thing it would scratch but Bon-Ami is a great product....it doesn't scratch at all. You can test it in your hand ..no sand it like some of those cleaners or chlorine. I use it on my Corian sink...ceramic cooktop..easily cleans bathroom sinks--and won't take the shiny finish off....I've even used it on silver jewelry !!!...I'd try it on the iron. My mom used to have this product at home all the time and I've only rediscovered it when I bought a cooktop ---so much cheaper than some of the products sold for that purpose. Mary

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MB

I once used a Magic Eraser sponge on my travel Rowenta, and it worked like a charm! :)

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Sandy

You say 'badly damaged'. Our DD fried a poodle skirt onto the soleplate of a Rowenta once. Phew. Ugh. Is your iron that bad? DH brought that one back to just fine by taking it out back and sanding it with gasoline. Another act of desperation is to sprinkle salt on aluminum foil and iron it. All we use is warm vinegar on mine but DH, the Yorkie and I don't entertain poodles. Poodles, on the other hand, find me extremely attractive but that's another story. Polly

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Polly Esther

I use the Dritz Iron-Off on my Rowenta with the stainless steel sole plate. It works just fine.

Julia > When I clean an iron soleplate, I usually use the Faultless Hot Iron product

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Julia in MN

This month's Fons & Porter magazine has a tip....pour salt in about a 6" X

1" stripe on a terry towel, and iron away. They say it will safely clean all the gunk off the bottom of your iron. If you try it, let us know if/how it works!
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Alice

Pat, I've used the cheapie stuff on my Rowenta with NO problems whatsoever. Does a great job. Never even knew there was 'Rowenta- specific' cleaner out there. Good Luck!

Kim in NJ

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AuntK

Alice,

Thanks. I tried the salt tip on Tuesday. It didn't work for me but I think that is because the soleplate doesn't really have gunk, but is discolored. Plus, I only have Morton's Lite Salt (tm) .... which is finer than regular table salt. So, I went downstairs to find the Bon Ami, as suggested, and got stung by a yellow jacket, right in my own kitchen, on my face. I was so not happy! That took care of any housework for me that day, as I sat around with ice and Rx. I will get back to this next week, after Relay for Life, and my Sis's visit is over. Never a dull moment in Virginia!

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Pat in Virginia

Pat, I bought the Rowenta kit, and when it was used up, I bought the Faultless stuff in the tube. I can't really tell the diff. It looks and smells the same. The kit also had a piece of rough terrycloth that you use first, then a soft piece of flannel-ish cloth that you polish when you're done. I still use those.

Sherry

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Sherry

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Whoa. Don't tell the Iron Police this, either, but the cats knocked mine off the ironing board. I've "heard tell" you're not supposed to use an iron after it's had a bad fall. Might be a good question for the Iron Police, if you see them. I use it anyway. The dang thing cost too much to retire.

Sherry

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Sherry

Ouch! Sorry about the sting! Our Relay for Life is coming up in a couple weeks....it's impressive, but not on the scale of the Relays on the Peninsula! Have a good visit with your sister!

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Alice

Thanks, Sherry. That is very useful information. Most of us have some rough terry and some soft flannel-ish stuff in the house already!

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Pat in Virginia

The Relay for Life was a huge success! We had the fantastic green/cream Irish chain on display and sold more raffle tickets. The drawing is tomorrow. I need to tally the accounting slips to find our how much we made on the raffle, and how much total for our team. The event total is over $325,000 so far!!

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Pat in Virginia

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