Firing up the coffee machine has become a daily ritual in our household over the past few years. It was purchased to save us money on buying coffees out and about.
We are not coffee nerds, but I have grown attached to a milky, cappuccino-esque coffee in the morning.
Disaster struck a month ago when the machine refused to perform plunging us into a coffee crisis.
Rummaging through the kitchen cupboards an old mocha was dusted off and quickly rejected for having no rubber seal. A small cafetiere finally surfaced from the camping box and we had time to gather our thoughts.
Whilst not a major investment, it was still quite an expensive item, an object with moving parts, and who isn’t aware that we should be repairing rather than rejecting and buying new.
When we bought the machine, a De’Longhi Dedica Style in case you are interested, we were impressed by the number of spare parts available. It was part of our [[purchasing decision]]. But this problem looked like it needed someone with a few more spanners in the toolbox.
De’Longhi have a service centre on their website where they promise to collect and repair your coffee machine for a one-off payment. We just needed to call a number and have our serial number handy.
So that’s what we did. 1 week later at a cost of £50 and the machine is back in the kitchen pumping out the coffee rather than sitting in landfill.