This is partly a whinge, partly a question. :P
I have CFS, which leaves my powers of concentration something to be desired.
Because of this, twice now, I have left Silvia on, when I finished making coffee. :-[ Both times, the steamer was on as well.
I could kick myself – I remembered to clean the spout after steaming the milk, I just didn’t turn it off. The first time I had visitors, the second time I was running late for a meeting. Both times, Silvia was dead next time I went to use it. All lights on, not heating.
First time, I was lucky enough to have a visitor who helped cart her down the stairs (and was still around to cart her back up) I took her to the coffee shop around the corner where I bought her. He said he will have a look, to see if he could fix her or it needs to go to the doctors. Rang me half an hour later that she just needed to be reset. I said, why didn’t I think of that – I could have done that. He said no, it needs to be taken apart to do that.
This time I wasn’t so lucky. It happened Friday. I made my morning coffee, didn’t get home until about 4, which is when I discovered it was still on, but it was no longer heating. No volunteers to cart her down the stairs (no fun when you have tennis elbow and carpal tunnel). When I got there, he said he couldn’t look at her, was short staffed. So, no coffee machine all weekend.
Just phoned them, it is fixed, so I presume it needed a reset again.
Now, for my questions.
Is it normal for this to happen? Or is there some underlying fault? After all, it is supposed to be OK to leave it on to warm up (realising of course, that one wouldn’t leave the steamer to “warm up” ;D). And if it is normal, is it really that hard to reset it? I’m presuming that I may do this again (although I’ll try very hard not to
) so I don’t want to have to cart it down the stairs and back again each time (and although he didn’t charge the first time, he probably will, this time)
I have CFS, which leaves my powers of concentration something to be desired.
Because of this, twice now, I have left Silvia on, when I finished making coffee. :-[ Both times, the steamer was on as well.I could kick myself – I remembered to clean the spout after steaming the milk, I just didn’t turn it off. The first time I had visitors, the second time I was running late for a meeting. Both times, Silvia was dead next time I went to use it. All lights on, not heating.

First time, I was lucky enough to have a visitor who helped cart her down the stairs (and was still around to cart her back up) I took her to the coffee shop around the corner where I bought her. He said he will have a look, to see if he could fix her or it needs to go to the doctors. Rang me half an hour later that she just needed to be reset. I said, why didn’t I think of that – I could have done that. He said no, it needs to be taken apart to do that.
This time I wasn’t so lucky. It happened Friday. I made my morning coffee, didn’t get home until about 4, which is when I discovered it was still on, but it was no longer heating. No volunteers to cart her down the stairs (no fun when you have tennis elbow and carpal tunnel). When I got there, he said he couldn’t look at her, was short staffed. So, no coffee machine all weekend.

Just phoned them, it is fixed, so I presume it needed a reset again.
Now, for my questions.
Is it normal for this to happen? Or is there some underlying fault? After all, it is supposed to be OK to leave it on to warm up (realising of course, that one wouldn’t leave the steamer to “warm up” ;D). And if it is normal, is it really that hard to reset it? I’m presuming that I may do this again (although I’ll try very hard not to
) so I don’t want to have to cart it down the stairs and back again each time (and although he didn’t charge the first time, he probably will, this time)
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