I am house sitting and do not know where Delonghi Perfecta Cap. machine's grounds container is located? indicator says to empty now...

This is the third time in 2 days. Is this the same person HIDING behind 'Anonymous'?

Watch videos and read. Or take to a dealer. These home coffee machines need dealer service once a year, but they don't tell you that when you buy them. My machines in a commercial setting serving up to a thousand cups a day were serviced every 3 months.

https://www.google.com/search?q=DeLonghi+Esam+4500+stuck+in+empty+grounds+container+while+its+empty+and+inserted

Or if you want to ask the question to a DeLonghi technician, go to www.justanswer.com

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This is the second similar issue in 2 days with this machine.

This will be a problem with the switch that registers it is there. Help in the link

https://www.google.com/search?q=Esam+4500+stuck+at+%27Insert+Grounds+Container%27

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Check the housing where the bin sits is clean and free of coffee and other debris

Delonghi Perfecta won't froth milk or allow hot water to come out from waterspout

Just had the same problem after washing my ESAM5500.
Seems that some water hot on the switch that is triggered when grounds container is inserted.
My solution was removing the bottom panel (5 screws if I remember correctly) and disconnect the green wire from the switch (there are three wires - green, ping and blue). When the green wire is disconnected, coffee maker thinks that grouns container is inserted all the time - even if it is removed.

I hope you have solved this problem by now... The door not closing properly happens when coffee grounds build up in the middle of the machine. It tends not to get everything into the waist box. You need a chopstick to fish out the grounds from behind/under the central column of the machine. You'll find a lot of coffee packed in! Then the door will close.

you need a part replaced and serviced 07779933829 uk

There seem to be a number of different sub-models of the ESAM5500 line of superautomatic coffee makers.
You can see a list of all of the user manuals for these sub-models here:
http://web1.dlservice.org/dlservice/ext/delonghi/cercalibretti.php?cerca=ESAM5500&submit=Search
Good Luck!

In our case we were lucky. Grinder was blocked by the beans. This is what I have done with our Delonghi 5400. It looked fiddly but was quite simple really. I started from the back panel. Once back panel was removed I had access to 4 corner screws that remove both side panels. Now that give me access to 4 corner screws that hold top of the machine. I l also had to unscrew 5 screws that hold coffee container in place. 4 are visible once the coffee beans container is open, but the 5th is hidden in the middle of adjustment arm with a black cap on top.(adjusting how fine you grind). I used small sharp screwdriver to lift the cap. Once all are out I removed the top of the machine and then the funnely coffee container too. That exposed grinder assembly. Top of the grinder is actually loosely sitting in the lower part of grinder. Twisting it counter clock should release it I Think. Our was not budging, and I had to completely remove the grinder and detach motor but that is quite obvious too, and probably not needed. I just wasn't sure what I was doing. Our machine was out of warranty so... Would be nice if we had some schematics.

I think the microswitch that sensors the front door is not activated. Try to find it and "give it a massage" The machine resets the counter for the grounds container every time the door switch is activated.

Rgds
Michael