Product Description

Premium Resilium no-rust, durable soleplate ensures years of smooth gliding performance. A perfect combination of over 600 steam holes and a powerful steam shot, blast away tough wrinkles for PerfectResults every time. The PerfectTip is designed to delicately reach challenging areas such as in between buttons, inside shirt pockets and under collars. With the convenience of the PerfectView Tank you can view the water level without having to stop ironing.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99149 in Home
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Electrolux
• Model: ELFI18K7MT
• Released on: 2012-03-30
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.38" h x 5.00" w x 11.00" l, 4.80 pounds

Features

• Durable Soleplate
• Over 600 Steam Holes
• No-Rust
• Water Level View
• Perfect Tip

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Super-size me
By Jonathan Sabin
I finally broke down a few months ago and purchased a new Black & Decker iron to replace the small Sunbeam iron that I'd been using for years. Not that there was anything wrong with the Sunbeam, but its water tank was so small that I could barely get through a single shirt before it (literally) ran out of steam.

I looked at the reviews and settled on the Black & Decker D2030, which had great reviews--and a ton of them.

As fate would have it, the Electrolux Perfect Glide Iron became available through the Vine program and I decided that I was in a good position to review it, based upon the fact that I'd be comparing it with another brand-new appliance.

The first noticeable thing about the Electrolux is its size. It's big. In fact, we have a built-in wall-mounted ironing board, and now that I'm using the Electrolux, I can no longer store the iron inside. The door simply won't close, no matter how its oriented. Is this a bad thing? Well, it's a tad annoying, but not the end of the world. So the iron gets stored on a nearby shelf instead. No big whoop.

The weight. Yes, it's a bit heavier than the Black & Decker, and probably 50% heavier than my old Sunbeam. For some, this might be a deal-breaker, but for me it is simply a non-issue. Most of the time it's being used, it's being pushed--not lifted. And it's not like it weighs 25 pounds. I just checked, and filled with water, it weighs in at 4 lbs, 2 oz. If an extra pound or two makes that much of a difference, it might be safer to purchase nothing but no-iron clothing. Or maybe resign yourself to sporting the "wrinkled look."

Water capacity: Unless you're going through the closet and ironing clothing in batches, filling the tank will certainly be enough to get you through a couple of pairs of pants and a couple of shirts. Having said that, though the tank seems to be about the same capacity as the Black & Decker, it does seem to run out of stea m a little bit faster. I suspect this is due to two things. First, the Electrolux has over 600 steam holes and it's an 1800 watt iron vs. the Black & Decker's 1500 watts. It makes more steam, ergo, the tank runs dry a little faster.

Tapered tip: The Electrolux features a so-called tapering tip... I find that this really does work well at getting between buttons and other tight spaces.

Steam: Tons and tons of it. Though I haven't used it as a "steamer" (by hanging an article of clothing and blasting it with steam to relax wrinkles, rather than ironing it on a board), I have no doubt that it would function very well in this regard. The blast of steam released when pressing the steam button is prodigious.

Overall... very pleased.

Jonathan Sabin

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Feels expensive.
By Dinakar Sarma
This iron is a pleasure to use, as it glides across linen, cotton, rayon, and polyester with ease. While I was using it, I had plenty of steam coming through to get that linen shirt nice and crisp. When my husband used it, he commented that it "felt expensive" while using it. It's quite solid in your hand. The water does NOT leak. Once it goes into the reservoir, it stays put.

The surface is such that your clothes don't stick to it, but it has enough heft that you don't feel like it's going to fall apart on you.

The heating up time is less than a minute. It's extremely fast to get to full power.

Couple of things that show how nice the attention to detail is:

1) The cord doesn't just lift upwards away from the iron, it also swivels in a ball and socket type deal. This means that the cord will not pop out of the wall because of the angle of the cord.

2) The holes to allow the steam through are tiny. This means that when you're ironing your clothes, you'll never have issues with drips falling out of the iron. It glides across the clothing.

3) The surface of the iron is nonstick. Nice.

4) The dial that lets you set the temperature of the iron clicks into place, not glides smoothly. This means that you'll be getting an accurate temperature each time.

5) The steam button clicks into place much like the back of a retractable pen, rather than a snapping up thing. It softly goes up and down, making it a pleasure to use.

There's all kinds of little things that make the whole experience much more pleasurable than a typical iron. You get what you pay for.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Iron works well, some improvements could be made
By M. Potvin
When the steam function and water sprayer of my Rowenta DX-9800 finally gave out due to clogging, I looked for a new iron. Enter the Black & Decker D2030 Auto-Off Digital Advantage Iron, which so many other Rowenta users migrated to after their units failed. The Black and Decker is a very light iron, and does function well, but doesn't have many steam holes.

The Electrolux was received through the Vine Program. Since ironing is a weekly chore, this will get some regular use, and this is my experience after a week worth of ironing and a few impromptu outfit changes which required additional ironing.

From a near out of box experience flow:
- The directions for using the iron are very well written. One complaint is that they mention a steam port cleaning cycle which unfortunately this model doesn't have. At the price point of about a hundred bucks if the iron isn't doing the work for you, all those bells and whistles better be included.

- The included cup for filling the steam reservoir is TINY and very cheap. Points to Rowenta for providing a very nice solid, large steam cup. It took 3 or 4 fill ups of the included cup to fill the reservoir.

- This iron seems to heat up very fast. So did the Black and Decker, it must've been a Rowenta thing where it took forever to heat up the soleplate. This means less waiting for those quick last minute morning outfit changes due to the meeting you forgot about.

- There is a button to turn on the steam function of the iron. Like being outdoors in the summer, it feels hotter when it is more humid. With the iron turned into the hotter cotton range without the steam turned on, the heat really didn't feel all that hot. You could literally touch the fabric immediately after ironing without any discomfort. Turn on the steam and that heat is retained, this could simply be because there is a bit of moisture left in the fabric retaining the heat. IMO, the ir on has to be used in the steam mode, but then again, I'm not really ironing delicate fabrics which may have steam restrictions.

- The numerous steam holes I do think are of benefit for an overall faster positive ironing outcome. This is where the Black and Decker was lacking. There aren't as many steam holes. So few, you'll notice that they don't show any pictures of the bottom, or advertise the number of steam holes.

My shirts do seem to iron more quickly and some which have what seemed like a permanent crease in them, I've really been able to reduce that crease line (not a fan of starch). The Black and Decker iron has been put into the closest as a backup in the event this ever fails. I would recommend this iron, of course as with all irons, longevity remains to be seen.