10
Maintenance
• It is important to clean the appliance at least once every two weeks by
means of the self-clean function to remove scale and other impurities.
• Depending on the hardness of the water used to fill the iron with, you
will have to use the self-clean function more often. The harder the
water, the more the iron will have to be descaled.
Self-cleaning
- Set the stream control dial (B) to O (= no steam).
- Open the lid of the filling opening (F) and fill the water reservoir (J) to
the maximum level (MAX).
- Close the lid of the filling opening (F).
- Set the temperature control dial (A) to MAX.
- Put the mains plug in the socket.
- Leave the iron to heat up until the orange temperature pilot light (H)
has gone out (pilot light (P) for type HI 444).
- Unplug the appliance.
- Hold the iron horizontally over the sink.
- Press the self-clean button (I) (fig. 12) and keep pressing it. Boiling
water and steam will now be ejected through the vents in the soleplate,
washing away impurities and scale (if any) from the iron.
- Gently shake the iron from side to side while it is self-cleaning.
- Release the self-clean button after one minute or if the water reservoir
is empty.
- If the water reservoir still contains scale or other impurities, repeat the
self-clean procedure.
- After the self-clean procedure, put the iron on its heel.
- Put the mains plug in the socket again and leave the iron to heat up
again.
- Move the iron backwards and forwards over an (old) cloth to make sure
that the soleplate is dry when you put the iron away.
• Types HI 434/444 only: the built-in Anti Calc Cassette guarantees a
longer working life of the appliance.
