How often should you descale your coffee machine?

Grumpty's answer

Every 3 months

Why bother

Scale chokes the pump and kills the machine early. A thorough-tier job. Skippable when life's busy, worth it when it isn't.

Why it's a range

Daily use on hard water pulls it to monthly. Light use on soft water stretches to six.

When to start thinking about it

A few days' warning does it. Grumpty grumbles 5 days out, then leaves you alone. Mark it done and Grumpty sets the next one, every 3 months, so you can go back to forgetting it exists.

ThoroughCleaning checklist

Let Grumpty remember it for you

Add it once. Grumpty tracks the date, grumbles when it's due, and rolls it forward the moment you mark it done. No spreadsheets, no sticky notes, no forgetting.