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Hi Chas, I drained the steam of the bottled water, took out the water level probe which looked fine with not a mark on it, I put it in some citric acid solution for a few hours since I had it out anyway and put the machine back together, filled it up with tap water and the machine is completely fine...

Hi Chas, Thank you for your reply, After the descale, as I was flushing the boilers of the citric acid, the steam boiler was doing 4 or 5 mini refills after its main refilling whenever I drew water out of the steam boiler. Usually once it refills it stops refilling further unless I draw more water o...

Another quick update, This morning I fired the machine up again and once the brew boiler temperature was reached the boiler came on and didn't trip the RCD mains this time, last time the steam boiler was on for about 4 minutes with the water Luke warm and nowhere near boiling point when it tripped t...

Just a quick update, on this evening I thought I'd put a hair dryer to the Steam boilers lid to dry it out just in case some electrical connection may be wet thus tripping the RCD, I plugged the machine in again and waited for the group boiler to reach it's set temperature and I was holding my breat...

Overfilled Issues after descaling. I decided to do my yearly descaling a couple of days ago, I descaled with about 4 tablespoons of citric acid in about a litre of water and fed that through to the machine via the machines own brass pipe pulling the citric acid solution from a container. I used abou...