Café ice maker — Time to Clean light
Café's manual describes a two-stage reminder: the indicator turns on after five months to say it's time to order cleaner, then flashes after six months to say it's time to actually run the cleaning cycle.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Reminders, not failures
- No service needed
- Source: Café
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What Time to Clean light
actually means.
Café's manual describes a two-stage reminder: the indicator turns on after five months to say it's time to order cleaner, then flashes after six months to say it's time to actually run the cleaning cycle.
Café home appliance display
What to do when Time to Clean light shows on the home applianceKind of codeReminders, not failures
Nothing has broken; the appliance has been counting hours, cycles or gallons and is asking for its routine care. A refrigerator lights a filter icon after about six months of water, a front-load washer suggests a tub-clean cycle after a set number of loads, a steam oven or a dishwasher asks for descaling or rinse aid, and some dryers remind you to check the exhaust. Do the task the reminder names, reset it the way the manual describes, and write the date in the service record.
Usually leads toNo service
Order the specific ice-maker cleaner Café's manual calls for once the light turns on steady.
Shows up asWater or Ice Tasting Stale: Filter Age, Scale and Idle Lines
Water or ice tasting stale is dispenser water, cubes or nugget ice with a flat, musty, chemical or freezer-food taste, often cloudy, slow to come or smaller than it used to be.
MakeCafé
Café owners usually book for the refrigerator's water filter and coil, the range's burners and hood, and sometimes a Café laundry pair with its lint path.
SourceCafé ice maker owner's manual
Applies to Café's freestanding nugget and clear-ice countertop makers using this two-stage Time to Clean indicator.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Café's own guidance for Time to Clean light on its home appliances. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Order the specific ice-maker cleaner Café's manual calls for once the light turns on steady.
Run the internal cleaning cycle using that cleaner once the light starts flashing.
Follow the manual's cleaning-cycle steps in full rather than stopping partway through.
Reset or clear the indicator per the control panel once the clean is complete.
Cleared?
The reminder is gone from the display, the filter, the screen or the tub has been cleaned or swapped, and the appliance runs a full cycle without calling for it again. A clean-filter light or a descale prompt that returns in days rather than months usually means the part it watches is fouling faster than normal, so mention that when you book.
What not to do
This is a scheduled hygiene reminder tied to a cycle counter, not a sign the compressor or ice-making mechanism has failed; ice production continuing normally alongside the light is expected until the clean is actually overdue.
What you may
notice with it.
The home appliance problems Time to Clean light tends to arrive with. Answer these at the home appliance before anyone is booked.
All problems
No service indicated
Nothing to service.
Nothing has broken; the appliance has been counting hours, cycles or gallons and is asking for its routine care. A refrigerator lights a filter icon after about six months of water, a front-load washer suggests a tub-clean cycle after a set number of loads, a steam oven or a dishwasher asks for descaling or rinse aid, and some dryers remind you to check the exhaust. Do the task the reminder names, reset it the way the manual describes, and write the date in the service record.
Café
home appliances.
Café owners usually book for the refrigerator's water filter and coil, the range's burners and hood, and sometimes a Café laundry pair with its lint path.
Café home appliance maintenanceMore Café codes
Reminders, not failures on other makes
Cold storage
Upkeep for everything in the house that keeps things cold: refrigerators, freezers, wine and beverage units and ice makers, cleaned and checked before they start struggling.
Cooking appliances
Upkeep for ovens, ranges, cooktops, hoods, microwaves, steam and speed ovens: burners and igniters cleaned, gas joints checked, grease filters and descaling done on time.
Dish care
Upkeep for dishwashers and disposers: filters rinsed, spray arms cleared, the door seal and drain loop checked, and hard-water scale kept off the parts that heat and spray.
In Café's own words
TIME TO CLEAN Indicator will turn on after 5 months indicating it is time to order cleaner. Indicator will flash after 6 months
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Applies to Café's freestanding nugget and clear-ice countertop makers using this two-stage Time to Clean indicator.
Café Time to Clean light home appliance maintenance,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about Time to Clean light.
Can I clear Time to Clean light myself?
What's the difference between the light turning on and flashing?
Can I use any ice maker cleaner?
Will the ice maker stop working if I ignore the Time to Clean light?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Time to Clean light?
A booking goes further when it has the reminder or code as shown, the model number from the rating plate, and a word on when that filter, screen or tub was last cleaned. With those three, the office can pack the right filter or cleaner for your appliance.