My coffee makers keep breaking! WHHHYYY?
We have went through 3 coffee makers in 3 months. Before we moved into this house we never had a coffee maker die. Could it be the water clogging it up? Everytime it breaks the water stops being pulled up to be brewed but the lights still come on. The first two the heating element would still come on, and the last one the heating element stopped coming on but the light still came on when I turned it on… Or could it be an electrical problem with the house? The first 2 were plugged into the same outlet, the third one was plugged into another outlet but they all are connected because only one outlet has the fuse that automatically trips if water is exposed to it. I was under the impression every outlet near water had to have one of those fuses… Yet the closest one to the sink doesn’t have one. When you reset the one that does, all of the outlets trip with it…. Any ideas???
The first coffee maker was a Black and Decker, second was a GE, third was the cheap brand from the dollar general because I didn’t want to pay another 30 bucks just to have it break again. Maybe it is the water? I know the build up is TERRIBLE around the sink. The landlady put in new faucet and it gets deposits very fast and easy. It’s so strange because we lived in another house about 1/10 mile from this one for an entire year without problems. I think I should buy another cheap coffee maker and try using bottled water. I guess the brita filter isn’t enough to help this water.
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I would first try to clean the coffee maker by running a pot of vinegar through it and see if it cleans the coffee maker out..that will rule out the water. You will know if it is hard water by looking at your shower…does it get a lime/hard water build up on it? If so, you might just have to clean your maker more often, but that sounds bad…have you tried a different brand of coffee maker? Maybe it is just a bad run of them..you could return it again and get a better brand and try that. My GFI outlet is not the closest one to the sink either in my kitchen. The outlets are all separate though and not connected.
Quit buying cheap coffee makers. Break down and buy a Bunn coffee maker. If they clog up, they can be cleaned.
Sounds like you have hard water and your coffee maker is clogging up with lime deposits.
sounds like an outlet problem and its frying it.coffee makers should last longer then what you say has happened.even with hard water.maybe you need a gif outlet i believed there called.
Check the voltage at the outlets. It should be between 110 and 122 V If it is higher or lower that may be the culprit and should be checked by a qualified electrician
Take it to the factory support.