Hi everyone, my Lelit Elizabeth has recently developed a symptom for which I need a hand diagnosing. There is a continual release of steam and water from the bottom left into the drip tray. This is slowly emptying the water tank across the day and often leaking onto the counter top. I attached a video of what’s going on. Reading around it might be the vacuum breaker?
Any tips would be immensely helpful! Thanks so much, Chris
creditchris It’s most likely to be the vacuum breaker
I made an annotated diagram for you
Just replace the vacuum breaker and use water with less calcium in. I can’t remember if it can be removed and cleaned inside easily…but you could give that a try. When removing clean the threads well and put back using 7-9 wraps of PTFE tape, so it feels tightish all the way in, but don’t snug it down, stop close to the bottom when at the right angle.
Thank you Dave this worked a treat. I bought a replacement valve, wrapped the thread in ptfe tape and it went in nicely. The hissing has stopped and I’m back to normal.
Thank you so much
DavecUK Hi) I have the same Lelit Elizabeth and have hissing from the fitting in the center of vapor boiler, that one with push/pull ring, but i dont know what is it for and how is it called and cant even google it. So could you please tell me its name? I think as it has other fitting way (push/pull), so a teflon tape wont help and I have to replace it, am I right?
