Author Topic: Do you stand an iron on its end during pauses? (Read 10269 times)

andygates · « **Reply #25 on:** 21 March, 2010, 06:40:51 pm »

Iron?

What is this?

hellymedic · « **Reply #26 on:** 21 March, 2010, 06:49:20 pm »

A four-letter word...

plum · « **Reply #27 on:** 21 March, 2010, 06:51:07 pm »

Woah everyone leaves them point up?

I always lay mine down flat on the ironing board cover when adjusting my shirt or whatever. Point up obv if I'm going to be stopped for more than a couple of minutes.

hellymedic · « **Reply #28 on:** 21 March, 2010, 06:54:45 pm »

Quote from: plum on 21 March, 2010, 06:51:07 pm

Woah everyone leaves them point up?

I always lay mine down flat on the ironing board cover when adjusting my shirt or whatever. Point up obv if I'm going to be stopped for more than a couple of minutes.

My ironinng board cover has a brown mark from doing this.

Mike J · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 March, 2010, 06:56:42 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 21 March, 2010, 06:31:32 pm

I used to seek out real non-iron shirts, but you can't get them any more. Apparently this is because there was too much formaldehyde in the fabric and it Got Banned.

At least you'll live a bit longer

When our iron does come out of the cupboard (it's not often) it always gets stood on its end.

mattc · « **Reply #30 on:** 21 March, 2010, 07:05:22 pm »

Quote from: Mike J on 21 March, 2010, 06:56:42 pm

Quote from: rogerzilla on 21 March, 2010, 06:31:32 pm
I used to seek out real non-iron shirts, but you can't get them any more. Apparently this is because there was too much formaldehyde in the fabric and it Got Banned.

At least you'll live a bit longer

Even if you subtract the time spent ironing?

jogler · « **Reply #31 on:** 21 March, 2010, 07:08:53 pm »

What is this iron thing you lot are talking about?
If it's kept in a kitchen I would not know it if I saw it.

Kim · « **Reply #32 on:** 21 March, 2010, 08:33:20 pm »

I believe it can be smelted and made into bicycle frames...

chris · « **Reply #33 on:** 21 March, 2010, 08:42:21 pm »

Quote from: jogler on 21 March, 2010, 07:08:53 pm

What is this iron thing you lot are talking about?

I'm not sure. I think Mrs Chris has one, and a surf board thingy.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #34 on:** 21 March, 2010, 09:01:39 pm »

Don't any of you have maids?

HTFB · « **Reply #35 on:** 21 March, 2010, 09:27:27 pm »

I do the ironing. My beloved stoker does an equivalently larger share of the washing-up. The division of labour plays to our respective strengths. Though for the last two years we've been living in a flat with a dishwasher $:-\$

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #36 on:** 21 March, 2010, 09:32:25 pm »

Quote from: plum on 21 March, 2010, 06:51:07 pm

Woah everyone leaves them point up?

I always lay mine down flat on the ironing board cover when adjusting my shirt or whatever. Point up obv if I'm going to be stopped for more than a couple of minutes.

Even I, with my known fettling skills, always stands the iron point up.

I hate the smell of scorching when you leave it flat on the board. Also, if you leave it flat on the board the board gets hot and you burn yourself on it.

hellymedic · « **Reply #37 on:** 21 March, 2010, 10:05:35 pm »

Quote from: HTFB on 21 March, 2010, 09:27:27 pm

I do the ironing. My beloved stoker does an equivalently larger share of the washing-up. The division of labour plays to our respective strengths. Though for the last two years we've been living in a flat with a dishwasher $:-\$

Yebbut I've never seen a dishwasher that self-loads or unloads...

MSeries · « **Reply #38 on:** 21 March, 2010, 10:09:07 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 21 March, 2010, 08:33:20 pm

I believe it can be smelted and made into bicycle frames...

melted, not smelted. I was researching home made bike trailers last week and someone had use the metal tubes from and ironing board for the hitching arm on his trailer.

chris · « **Reply #39 on:** 21 March, 2010, 10:14:57 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 21 March, 2010, 10:05:35 pm

Yebbut I've never seen a dishwasher that self-loads or unloads...

Mine does. It must be magic! (although the self loading/unloading mechanism did once break when Mrs Chris was away from a few days, but she soon fixed it when she returned)

Butterfly · « **Reply #40 on:** 22 March, 2010, 01:28:24 pm »

Of course you stand the iron point up. If you leave it flat it uses all the water to make steam and makes the ironing board too hot. Your wife clearly doesn't do enough ironing. Old fashioned irons had the cable coming out of the side so it wasn't an issue but that made them specific to right or left handedness. This is why I iron left handed although I am right handed and probably why Clarion irons righthanded as well.

plum · « **Reply #41 on:** 22 March, 2010, 04:49:54 pm »

That's reminded me why I started doing it. I had an iron that if it was stood end up, when I put down again steam didn't come out, just loads of water a-sputtering about. Leaving it flat kept the steam coming as steam, Changed iron since but it's stuck as a habit.

hairyhippy · « **Reply #42 on:** 22 March, 2010, 05:47:53 pm »

It's the large fire on the dining room table to keep them hot that upsets Mrs HH.

arabella · « **Reply #43 on:** 24 March, 2010, 10:06:28 am »

You obviously need to apply n+1 to your ironing.
Either
You need a cordless iron. this comes with a stand that you slot it in whilst you are rearranging said shirt.
Or
You need a new ironing board with a slot at the end that holds the iron rather than just a platform.

Note all this knowledge is at least 15 years old.

chris · « **Reply #44 on:** 24 March, 2010, 11:00:29 am »

Quote from: arabella on 24 March, 2010, 10:06:28 am

You obviously need to apply n+1 to your ironing.

But polygamy is illegal!

Polar Bear · « **Reply #45 on:** 24 March, 2010, 11:04:54 am »

Quote from: chris on 24 March, 2010, 11:00:29 am

Quote from: arabella on 24 March, 2010, 10:06:28 am
You obviously need to apply n+1 to your ironing.

But polygamy is illegal!

Hmmm, a mistress to do the ironing...

jogler · « **Reply #46 on:** 24 March, 2010, 11:10:40 am »

a.k.a.. an au pair

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #47 on:** 24 March, 2010, 06:32:12 pm »

You need a charcoal iron.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #48 on:** 29 March, 2010, 10:58:18 am »

The last time I ironed an item of clothing was a blouse that I wore for my friend's daughter's christening. Said child is now in year 2 at school....

But when I did iron (and at one point I was ironing for three of us, who all had booted and suited jobs, in a rather good household labour arrangement whereby we all agreed to take responsibility for the jobs that we hated least - I didn't have to vacuum or wash up for a YEAR) I always stood the iron on its end during pauses.