Iron burnt a hole right though trousers

[JoeyJoeC]

The iron is a Breville 2400W Digital iron.

 

This morning, like every Monday, I was heating up the iron (2/5th setting) like normal. I put my trousers on the board and then as soon as the iron touched the nylon trousers, it stuck to it and burnt a hole in them.

 

They were my only decent pair, and fairly new which were £40 from Debenhams.

 

I've done this many times before without any issues, it just looks like now that the iron heated up much more than it should have. I could prove this too with an infrared heat sensor.

 

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Even the ironing board cover melted slightly. What shall I do about this?

[obiter dictum]

How old is the iron?

[AndyOrch]

Not having much luck Joey with electrical appliances ?

[Consumer dude]

How old is the iron?

 

Any old Iron, any old Iron. (couldn't resist that)..

[JoeyJoeC]

Certainly not! You don't know the half of it. My friends and colleagues say I shouldn't touch things anymore. Just last week I superglued both my hands together when I accidentally split open a large tube of super glue.

 

At least irons are allowed in the office and I could make toast with it.

 

Iron was bought 2 - 3 years ago..ish. It was used for about a year, then put in dry storage for over a year. Have since been using it in my flat without issue.

[obiter dictum]

If the iron was purchassed 2-3 years ago then you will have no propect to claim as it is outside the manufacturers warranty

 

The truth is you get what you pay for, nothing is built to last these days as consumables. We are a throw away society

 

To be honest it will cost 10 times as much to pursue this as a claim than just replace the iron

[AndyOrch]

Certainly not! You don't know the half of it.

 

At least irons are allowed in the office and I could make toast with it.

 

 

[JoeyJoeC]

Pretty sure they're still not suppose to fail in that way. No thermal cut off? What happened to the "Reasonable length of time" argument?

 

What if the kettle suddenly exploded? As long as it's outside of the 1 year warranty, it's fine?

 

I think it was around £30, but has been the best one I've used for a while.

[Mr.P]

Check the label. Many nylon clothing should not be ironed.

[JoeyJoeC]

Check the label. Many nylon clothing should not be ironed.

 

I'll double check that. Although they are suit trousers.

[citizenB]

Hmm, I don't think you should iron a nylon item directly anyway, even on a low setting it could melt/damage the nylong - you should use a barrier cloth such as an old pillowslip/sheet/cotton pressing cloth.

[citizenB]

Certainly not! You don't know the half of it. My friends and colleagues say I shouldn't touch things anymore. Just last week I superglued both my hands together when I accidentally split open a large tube of super glue.

 

 

 

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I did this a couple of weeks ago with some jewellery glue which is the same strength as super glue. It was a bit scary to be stuck to tweezers and a silver end cap.

 

Thankfully some nail polish remover resolved the problem

[JoeyJoeC]

Label shows little iron icon with a single dot. Anyway, that's besides the point. It melted the ironing board cover too. This is not about the clothes, I have ironed the same pair of trousers many times.

 

I did read some reviews where people have managed to accidentally press the temp up button (thus burning clothes) as the buttons are stupidly positioned on the handle. I pulled the plug too fast to know now.

[JoeyJoeC]

I did this a couple of weeks ago with some jewellery glue which is the same strength as super glue. It was a bit scary to be stuck to tweezers and a silver end cap.

 

Thankfully some nail polish remover resolved the problem

 

This was my whole hand glued to the other . I'll try to upload the picture of after I got them apart later. I tried acetone as well, however the skin was raw from pulling them apart, and the acetone burnt like hell. Wish I could say it ended there. I then tried to clean up the stuff that leaked over my desk with a paper towel, which promptly also got stuck to my hand and started to burn relasing nasty smoke and fumes due to the exothermic reaction and increased surface area of the towel.

[citizenB]

This was my whole hand glued to the other . I'll try to upload the picture of after I got them apart later. I tried acetone as well, however the skin was raw from pulling them apart, and the acetone burnt like hell. Wish I could say it ended there. I then tried to clean up the stuff that leaked over my desk with a paper towel, which promptly also got stuck to my hand and started to burn relasing nasty smoke and fumes due to the exothermic reaction and increased surface area of the towel.

 

Yes, the acetone does burn like hell and I did lose some skin from my thumb. Sounds like you got yourself in a right mess !!

[citizenB]

Label shows little iron icon with a single dot. Anyway, that's besides the point. It melted the ironing board cover too. This is not about the clothes, I have ironed the same pair of trousers many times.

 

I did read some reviews where people have managed to accidentally press the temp up button (thus burning clothes) as the buttons are stupidly positioned on the handle. I pulled the plug too fast to know now.

 

The ironing board cover should not have melted ! I agree that on some irons, the temp button is in a daft place.

[JoeyJoeC]

The ironing board cover should not have melted ! I agree that on some irons, the temp button is in a daft place.

 

Didn't quite melt, but its like the threads have shrunk and pulled apart. feels rougher.