--- title: "Gaggenau CMP 250: Clean trays and replace, though they are empty" description: "What Clean trays and replace means on Gaggenau CMP 250: Clean trays and replace, though they are emptys, what to check before booking, and when it is not a…" url: "https://coffeemachinerepair.center/error-codes/gaggenau-clean-trays-and-replace/" --- # Gaggenau CMP 250: Clean trays and replace, though they are empty The 200 series tallies drinks and grounds against the drip tray and the coffee residue container and zeroes the tally only when it sees them pulled with the power on. ## What Clean trays and replace actually means. The 200 series tallies drinks and grounds against the drip tray and the coffee residue container and zeroes the tally only when it sees them pulled with the power on. Emptying them with the machine off, or refitting them wet and dirty, leaves the prompt showing. Gaggenau coffee machine display What to do when Clean trays and replace shows on the coffee machine ### Kind of code Grounds and drip tray The machine thinks the grounds container is full or missing, or the drip tray is full or out of place, and it will not brew until that changes. Most machines count the pucks rather than weigh them, so the message returns if the container is emptied while the power is off or put back too quickly. When it stays after a proper emptying, the tray contacts, the sensor or the counter on the board is checked at the visit. ### Usually leads to Coffee machine diagnostic visit A visit that brews and froths with you watching, reads the machine's own counters, then tests grinder, brew unit, pump and heater until one part is named. ### Shows up as What a Coffee Machine Error Code or Warning Symbol Means A coffee machine error code may show as a short string of letters and numbers, a flashing symbol for water, grounds or the brew unit, a short sentence on a text display, or a machine that stops with one light blinking. ### Make Gaggenau Gaggenau coffee systems are serviced in place after the owner describes what the last cup looked like. ### Source Gaggenau CMP 250 Fully Automatic Espresso Machine Use and Care Manual, Simple troubleshooting Printed in the US Use and Care Manual for the 200 series CMP 250 built-in espresso machine. ## Before you book, in this order. Each step comes from Gaggenau's own guidance for Clean trays and replace on its coffee machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit. 01 Switch the machine on. 02 Pull the drip tray out and push it back in fully. 03 Still showing? Wash the tray, dry it completely and reseat it; if it will not clear even then, book a visit. ### Still there? It usually turns into [coffee machine diagnostic visit](https://coffeemachinerepair.center/services/diagnostic-visit/). Book with the code and the model number. ### What not to do Insert trays means the reverse: the machine does not see the trays at all. Water sitting under the tray is condensation, which comes from running the tray without its cover. ## What you may notice with it. The coffee machine problems Clean trays and replace tends to arrive with. Answer these at the coffee machine before anyone is booked. 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Gaggenau coffee systems are serviced in place after the owner describes what the last cup looked like. 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Gaggenau builds this ### Plumbed coffee system The built-in coffee machine connected to the house water supply, filling itself through an inlet valve and sometimes draining its rinse water to a line of its own, so nobody ever lifts out a tank. ## In Gaggenau's own words > Display screen "Clean trays and replace" despite being empty. [Gaggenau CMP 250 Fully Automatic Espresso Machine Use and Care Manual, Simple troubleshooting](https://media3.gaggenau.com/Documents/8001093065_A.pdf) [Gaggenau CMP 250 Fully Automatic Espresso Machine Use and Care Manual, Simple troubleshooting](https://media3.gaggenau.com/Documents/8001093065_A.pdf) Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Printed in the US Use and Care Manual for the 200 series CMP 250 built-in espresso machine. ## Gaggenau Clean trays and replace coffee machine repair, where we come out. 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Switch the machine on. If it comes back, it needs a visit. ### Why does my Gaggenau want the trays cleaned right after I emptied them? Most likely it was switched off when you emptied them. Pull and reseat the drip tray with the machine on. ### Can the Gaggenau drip tray be machine-washed? On its current Expressive machines Gaggenau lists the drip pan and the coffee dregs container as dishwasher-safe. Dry them fully before sliding them back. ### When does this Gaggenau prompt need a technician? When a clean, dry tray pulled and reseated with the power on still does not clear it. That points to the tray sensor. --- **[Read on the site: Gaggenau CMP 250: Clean trays and replace, though they are empty](https://coffeemachinerepair.center/error-codes/gaggenau-clean-trays-and-replace/)** **[Book a visit with CoffeeMachineRepair.center](https://coffeemachinerepair.center/schedule/)**