It quickly heats, smoothes fine and pointy tip allows ironing the most inaccessible places! As already stated it consumes a lot of water, but this is normal considering the amount of steam it does! That said steam can be cut when there is no need to have so many! Only flat, mine tends to "spit". I ended up with water stains which makes me fear for later, when it will begin to be scaled that these tasks become yellowish spots ...