Jiffy Steamer J-2000 Residential Series 1300-Watt Garment Steamer
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Jiffy Steamer J-2000 Residential Series 1300-Watt Garment Steamer
Customer Review: Overall pleased with this
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a high quality steamer. You can tell it is well made - the materials are sturdy, although the unit itself is fairly compact and takes up much less room in our laundry room than an ironing board. The question I had when I bought this was whether this will replace an iron completely. My best estimate after having this for a week, is that for 95% of my ironing needs, it will. For sharp pressing needs, like a man's shirt collar, I think we'll drag out the iron. When I first tried the steamer, I was a little nervous because it seemed like hardly any steam came out. It is not a heavy steam flow, but a light, but hot flow of steam - watch your fingers, I've burned mine twice. It is a little hard to maneuver the clothes as you steam them - I think the board that you can hang up would be very helpful, so we may get that later. I steam by hanging a garment on a separate clothes rod and hold the bottom of the garment while I steam the entire item, but when you get to the bottom, you have to move your hand to reach the bottom edge of the garment (again, watch your fingers). The water reservoir holds a lot of water, which is very nice. I also liked the fact that the papers that came with the unit say that they test each unit before it ships to you. Overall, I am happy with this purchase. I plan to get many years of use out of it and I think it will save a little time vs. an iron and I don't worry about damaging my clothes with a faulty iron anymore. An added bonus is that I will not worry about burning the house down with this like I did with the iron (steam vs. a hot piece of metal).Customer Review: Makes Mornings So Much Easier
Summary: 5 Stars
I hate to iron. But for most of my adult life, I ironed each morning to make sure that I was wrinkle free for work. My husband recently finished school, and entered the professional workplace. It was hard enough stomaching needing to iron my own skirts, shirts, and pants. The prospect of needing to iron men's collared shirts was too much, and I knew he would dread doing it. I recalled my teenage years working in retail, and how nice it was to use to garment steamer to get clothes crisp for the store floor. So I started my research, and ended up purchasing the Jiffy J-2000. I am overwhelmingly thankful I did.
This steamer is easy to use, and great at getting wrinkles out of most things. We have had some struggles with wrinkles in particularly dense materials, but for the average fabric it works great. The water tank lasts weeks before needing refilling, and the steamer produces consistent steam. I'm able to steam pants and a shirt in a few short minutes, and the results are often superior to what I would have gotten from ironing. The steamer warms up relatively quickly, and I listened to another reviewer who suggested turning the steamer on then picking out your clothes so the steamer was ready by the time you'd picked out your outfit. I highly recommend this steamer to anyone who hates ironing, and/or who is looking to speed up their morning routine. Even my husband (who ironed maybe a handful of times in his life) finds this garment steamer easy to use. I will never go back to an iron and ironing board.
Customer Review: This Thing's Great
Summary: 5 Stars
Speed through ironing and remove all wrinkles in record time. A waste of money? You don't need an ironing board or an iron and you'll save a lot of time and will not damage your clothes. I bought this because ironing is tough to do unless you have a lot of patience and experience. No more shiny pants from too hot ironing. In fact it's fun to use.Now my confession. I took a $2000 pair of drapes, and put them in the washer (cold cycle) and then the drier (for linens). Duh! I did it because they were yellow from smoke and if I was going to spend hundreds, I would spend another $2000 if the experiment didn't work. Hadn't had them cleaned in five years. The drapes were clean as a whistle, but wrinkled like a prune. The Jiffy Steamer dewringled them in 20 minutes flat after they were rehung.
The unit arrived with a broken caster. One phone call to customer service and a new one arrived in three days, and they didn't ask for the serial or model number.
Wait! There's more. I have a DeLonghi Steam Cleaner (I give it four stars), but I decided to use the garment steamer to remove grease from my George Foreman grill. That's because the garment cleaner head is hotter than hell on contact. It cleaned the grill fast! Encouraged, I used it to steam grease out of the oven. Worked fast! Then I used it to remove grease and old food from the rubber matts that line the sinks. Within a few seconds it actually boiled the residual water that lay in the sink! I took a tea bag and made tea with the boiled! OK. Now I'm lying.
Customer Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
My clothing is mostly cotton, linen, silk, rayon, and untailored. Very little wool and no synthetics. I don't like pressed creases and like fabrics that are crinkled. When they're ironed, they don't look right. With this steamer I can take out the wrinkles and leave in the crinkles. As someone noted, it is fantastic for things I wouldn't have thought of ironing, like tee shirts. They look perfect in under a minute.
I also got the steamboard Jiffy 0892A Steamboard Vertical Garment Ironing Board and I'm hoping to be able to do my husband's shirts with that.
I find the best way to operate the machine, for the fabrics I have, is to open the garment and pass the steamer, facing me, from top to bottom on one side of the garment at a time, guiding the fabric above with my left hand.
Be careful because the hose gets hot; I have inadvertently touched it when repositioning my hand. I have gotten a couple of "oh, ouch" burns, and you should expect to when learning, but there is possibility for serious injury, namely: When steaming from the underside, especially pants and sleeves, be careful with the steam that will tent up inside. It dissipates almost instantly when it hits the air, but if you stick your hand in it before it does, you could get burned.
This steamer has changed the landscape of my closet and is well worth the price.
Customer Review: Not an Iron for Sure
Summary: 3 Stars
I had high hopes for this machine. Especially after having read all the reviews here, I anticipated that this steamer would do away w/ my iron forever. However, as a previous user has said, the steamer isn't an iron and it requires learning different techniques and accepting a different standard of "wrinkle free" (not the crisp kind from irons). After 2 weeks of testing it out, I had to return it. I generally don't spend too much $ on dry cleaning and I don't iron every day so perhaps this wasn't worth the price for the little that I thought I would use (coupled with the fact that it didn't produce crisp looks that I wanted). Plus, I burned myself 3x and maybe was too impatient to learn the technique (which I tried to find online w/o much success... if you have techniques, please share w/ other potential or existing buyers!).
I gave this 3 stars b/c it didn't work out for me but would have given the quality of the machine 4 stars since it's a great, sturdy, strong steamer if that's what you're looking for. It just didn't fulfill my expectations of replacing an iron, which is an unfair expectation since this isn't an iron! If you're the type to need this often and can accept the standard of "wrinkle free" (not iron-crisp), then this may be for you! Btw, if you learn the technique enough, perhaps it can look iron-crisp! I didn't go that far w/ this machine so I wouldn't know.
Back to the iron I go...