u/jlafont1

Boiler water (Mara x)

I’ve been busting my head on this issue. I recently started using RPalvis, to “avoid scale”. However, I noticed the boiler water taste horrendous!

Now I barely use it, however the fact that it can taste so bad, it makes me even wonder how it affects the steam.

Wondering if any Mara X users have tasted their boiler water recently? Whenever I drain the whole boiler and add fresh water it’s tasted OK for 2-3 days but after one week, back to a horrendous taste.

Any Mara X users have exp tasting their boiler water?

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u/jlafont1 — 6 days ago

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I recently took on the endeavor of descaling my Lelit Mara X. I was sensing my steam wand was spewing too much water, steam felt a little wet.

I wanted to clean my water temp probe and figured let me put a cell endoscope camera to inspect tb boiler. Unfortunately I did find scale.

Wondering how bad this is considered? I went ahead and followed Lelits video to descale. I didn’t want to go through the trouble of reopening the boiler by removing a sensor. I’m wondering if one standard descale procedure would’ve made a good dent, for the amount of scale I had. FYI my last descale was performed by a shop 3 years ago.

I’d be curious about others experience descaling. Particularly Lelit and or similar models to the Mara X.

u/jlafont1 — 2 months ago