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You’ll need to bleed your Saeco Picobaristo if there is too much air in the hot water system, preventing your coffee machine from building up the required pressure. We’ll show you how to bleed your coffee machine.
Bleeding the Saeco Picobaristo: Here’s how
As well as a loss of pressure, you’ll also recognise the fault by the fact that less water is flowing, or none at all. As a result, making a coffee takes longer or isn’t possible at all. Fortunately, Saeco’s Picobaristo range is one of the more modern machines, featuring precise error messages. So if your coffee machine displays the message ‘Bleed’, it’s best to follow the steps below.
- First, fill the water tank with sufficient water and place an empty container under the coffee spout before you begin.
- Switch off the machine and press the hot water button; on older models, turn the dial to ‘Hot Water’.
- Hot air will now flow through the hoses until the pressure vessel has been vented.
- Then switch the machine back on and press the hot water button again; if hot water comes out after a few seconds, everything has worked.
- If the troubleshooting does not work straight away the first time, try again. Often, the procedure needs to be repeated several times.
