What is a very good Espresso machine

[germantown rob]

Originally Posted by floydpink

1. Keep everything perfectly clean and descale monthly.

Really? Is your water that hard that you need to do this?
I choose not to use bottled water but with a brita filter that gets used only for 3 weeks before going to just drinking water my water comes down to where I should need to only descale 1 a year. A true descale cleaning is a PIA so if I had to do it 1 a month I would switch to buying softer water.