Swash SFF1000CLN Express Clothing Care System, Linen

When this works, yes, it deserves a 5 star review. I thought for 3 days on what I would write and what kind of review I should leave about it. After careful consideration my 5 star rating is merely for the performance of the product and what I expected it to. As a clothing care system, I cant tell you by how great this is. I hate ironing and while this does not do a 100% iron/dry-clean job, its about 90% there and thats good enough for me. I would recommend this to anyone that wears a lot of dress shirts.Will definitely save you money in the long wrong. For those wanting more detail or really considering this unit, I have made a more thought out response below.UNIT DESIGN: While performance is great, functionality is horrid. This device is beyond huge (which i was prepared for) and the box it came in with the unit was 101 pounds. But, what I hate the absolute most, all four sides need to be accessible. I was going to slide this between my washer and dryer. They even have a picture of this in one of the brochures, not possible. You of course need the front to pull it out, you need both sides to clamp the clothing in, but what idiotic engineer put the water catch tank in the back of the unit. Yes, you have to be able to also access the back of the unit. You will not be able to slide this against a wall, push it back against a wall. It literally must just stand in a open area. Keep this in mind if you decide to order one.UNIT FUNCTIONALITY: It works, I did a few dress shirts both just regular wrinkled and I had some dress shirts that I do not wear anymore shoved in drawers. I took them out just to see if it would make a difference. I knew light wrinkles would go away but wow, this is the reason for the five stars. It took a shirt, that had been balled up in a drawer for 2 years, and make it look brand new. If you are looking for a quick clothing care solution this things is remarkable.For its size, since its already huge, I wish they could have made it hold two garments but one is fine. I add my shirt, push the ten or 15 minutes button, take shower, and have a nice shirt to wear as soon as I am out.UNIT ENERGY CONSUMPTION: Not that I expect to many to care but keep in mind, when this things first turns on, lights on the same break will dim considerably. I dont know what kind of amperage this thing is pulling out but it has to be quite a bit. Even my washer and dryer don't do this. The only appliance I have that I think that can dim my lights on initial turn on is my vacuum. I know this thing takes a bit a power.UNIT CARE AND USAGE: This unit uses items called PODS and you need one for every piece of garment you put in. The cheapest I can find them for are about .60 to .70 per POD. After carefully studying many reviews from people that have came up with there own solution liquid or just using plain water and filling an old pod, 3-5 years from now I might be that person too. Its just a big steamer so I imagine it would work fine. My main thing to point out is after the steam process, I can see a faint residential of liquid at the bottom of the pull out unit. I after using it a few times, I have learned to leave the door open a little while to let all the water evaporate. Probably a good idea to wipe the bottom once a weak to be prepared for some min upkeep.THE HATRED::::::::I don't imagine everyone story will go like this but here is mine and why is was initially tough to leave a 5 star review. I will go in order of issues. One thing to keep in mind is my Wife bought this for me as a Christmas gift. Brand new, from Amazon.com and not some reseller of no name.1. Was shipped to my apartment. UPS said delivery time would be between 11-3. I stayed home and it never came. I finally leave at 4 and the second I pull out my carport, instant notification on the phone the package is delivered, WTH!!!!2. Item was delivered to the office and not my door. Did I mention this box weighs 101 pounds.....3. Go to the office, Box looks like it has been the WWI and deserves a purple heart trying to protect the contacts inside.4. Box at the top was partially open, I could blatantly see the unit inside without even touching the box.5. I am 5'7 and I only weigh 35 pounds more than this box. Moving it to my apartment....Lets just say I got my exercise for the year.6. Discovered the rear needed to be accessible on opening. 2 hours now thinking of where can I place this now knowing all four sides need to be accessible.7. Threw some stuff in storage, found a spot, plugged it in, nothing happens. (unplug replug, you will do this a lot)8. Finally after closing and opening everything 5-10 times it comes on. Great. wait ten minutes, whats burning?9. Cycle is over, definitely hot inside the unit. POD is still full of its liquid gold. WTH!10. Establish the unit is not sucking water and not working properly. Wife is upset as it was the only gift I asked for. She got a Macbook, a Mercedes SUV, a coach purse, a full hide leather carry case for the laptop, a whole bunch of high end frangrances, and I got this, a nice broken machine.... Way to start the Christmas day. She was actually more upset than I was as I had nothing to enjoy for Christmas except this broken unit...11. Any married man knows when a wife is upset, you do what you can to repair the situation. I know electronics and mechanics extremely well. Out comes the tool box. On Christmas day....12. Did I mention the unit was delivered with huge cracks one the bottom, I forgot to mention that but I discovered it here when I was ready to take apart the unit to figure out what was wrong.13. The instructions the unit comes with are crap for trouble shooting, forums are crap. If something goes wrong your screwed. EXCEPT if you open the unit. There is a little white pamphlet with all the trouble shooting instructions, wire schematics, and more. WHY WASNT THIS JUST IN THE BOX.14. After looking all over, first thing I notice is the PUMP has two wires that plug into it. + and -. THE + WIRE WAS COMPLETELY DISCONNECTED. WTH! I think this is number 3 WTH btw....15. Reconnect, attach everything, and oo la la it works. Does a great job on the first shirt but &^% is load. Especially the pump in the beginning for like 6-8 seconds. Cant be right...16. Completely disassemble everything again. Look inside, the pump is not attached to the rubber grommets and is not even screwed down. WTH!!! again...17. Reattach correctly, double check make sure all wires are securely plugged in. Do my best to fix all the cracks at the bottom. At this point I don't think this is new. Going to my order, yup, new, from amazon itself, but with the box in the condition it was, cracks on the bottom of the unit, one pump wire being completely unhooked, and then the pump itself not properly attach. Yeah, I am upset...18. Call Swash, Closed, try to call amazon, gave up... Thought a few days before leaving this review...and here it is. It is based solely on the unit working and how it works for what it is designed to do. But JHC all the heck I had to go through myself to get this working. Either way, wife was happy that it worked and I fixed it, I am very happy with how it performs, just be very careful ordering one.

Similar to many of the other reviews, I was hoping this product would solve the need to iron or make frequent trips to the dry cleaners. I was very skeptical about buying this product due to the number of reviewers receiving a broken or used unit. Decided to take a gamble on it and a ure enough, when I opened the box the product had arrived broken and missing screws. Opened the box and noticed a massive crack in the lower back portion of the unit. That area was missing a screw as well.

Build quality is not great. There is a weak spit in this machine. It does not have very good structural support. The bottom front part of the fascia behind the door will crack and even break off easily. This breakage is likely to occur with even slightly uneven surface. Add the vibrations when the machine is running. When it breaks, it could be hard annoying to close the door.It does take care of wrinkles (tried omit on my dress shirts only, so far) and add a faint pleasant scent to your garments (assuming you use the recommended pods). It does impart linear streaks stains on the garment, but faint enough to be indiscernible even from a short distance.

I have no idea what this product is supposed to wash. Apparently clothes that are already clean and ironed. I wish I could get my money back.

It doesn’t really remove all the wrinkles. But I think it’s a great way to sanitize your dress shirts. I like perfection. I’m very good in ironing. This is good for casualClothes but it still doesn’t beat dry cleaners or ironing. Maybe good for women’s light fabric formalClothes

This device is absolutely amazing. I wear a business suit every day to the office and I was tired of either having to steam them after every wear, send them to cleaners, or wearing them wrinkled. So I took a gamble on this machine: it paid off. I literally took my suit off, put it on the hanger, clipped on set of fabric holders, popped in a cup, and shut the door...fifteen minutes later a fresh looking suit. I'm not sure it will save me all the money of dry cleaning (sometimes I just wore a slightly wrinkled suit), but it will make me look more professional every day. Forget those reviews that say it doesn't get out every wrinkle...it probably doesn't...but neither are my clothes perfect if I steam them or if I leave the dry cleaning in the back of the car. It freshens your clothes and its good at it. I highly recommend this item and it will be used daily in my household.

Brad, Linda's husband: My review is going to sound like it's bogus, but it's not. I'm just a normal guy. I don't know how they do it, frankly. For less than a buck I get a perfect shirt each time. It does not 'launder' your shirt, more like a refresh of a shirt that was worn and not soiled. If you spill on your shirt, you'll need to wash it, but I so prefer this to self-laundered shirts. I feel like I'm getting away with something - every day I have a shirt that looks like it was professionally laundered. There's something really cool about sticking my fave shirt in the Swash, taking a shower, and by the time I dry off, my fave shirt that I wore yesterday is pressed and ready for me again today! This machine rocks!

Not really a good option to clean or dewrinkle clothes. Makes them smell better, if anything. Not an alternative to dry cleaning.