Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is the best household gadget I've discovered in years. I just moved into an old house. I had to trash all the drapes, which had accumulated twenty years of dust and grease from cooking, and buy and install new drapes. But the new drapes were all wrinkly, and I needed to get them unwrinkled. So I did some research, spent more, and got more. This is a super hand held steamer. I got the wrinkles out of my drapes, and can even de-wrinkle my favorite cotton t-shirts. It takes longer than ironing them, but it's safer for me because I'm not that good at ironing, and for every four or five wrinkles I iron out, I accidentally iron another one back in. This can't happen with this steamer. Three very minor drawbacks. First, it goes through water fast on "turbo" mode (but turbo mode gets the wrinkles out of the drapes.) I have to fill it often, and I use water from my drinking water supply, because my pipes are in bad shape and I don't want to introduce particles into the mechanism. Second, it can get heavy after many continual minutes of holding it up to drapes when they're new and wrinkled, or cotton, which requires a lot of heat to de-wrinkle. Third, the power indicator light requires one to look directly at it from the front of the unit. You cannot see this steamer is powered on or off by look at it from any angle. In other words, you can only see that it's "ready" to steam when the steam is pointed at your eyeballs. That to me is a minor but avoidable design flaw. But if you've got new drapes, and you want a steamer you can hold in your hand and put on a shelf, I think this is possibly the best one out there, and worth the extra money compared to cheaper brands.