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Quooker type Instant Hot Water Tap. Job done and working

Colywobbles

Colywobbles

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So my niece had this super instant hot water tap fitted called a Quooker that seems a perfect solution for the kitchen sink as the wife forever uses the combi with the tap running cold for the first couple of minutes.
This is happening on a regular basis so not only wasting a shed load of water but involves firing up the gas combi for the sake of washing a few dishes up and yes we have a dishwasher but never seems to get used. My niece even makes T using this tap as it’s all super filtered apparently.
This sounds ideal being almost off grid with electricity and lets me hold off on my combi tank option for now.
Anyone have one, are they easy to fit and any cheaper options been tried as I see lots springing to market all of a sudden.
 
Friend has one.

re child safety they're double press & twist job.

But they're 100% a luxury. Not an energy saver. You basically have a boiler under the sink which is permanently heating a tank to 90 deg 24/7 and then it finishes off the last 10 deg when you turn tap on.

Oh and they're like 1200 quid...
 
GF's parents have one. Absolutely superb, pricey bit of kit and not sure it's cheap to run necessarily.... But instant brews all day long.
 
Pick Holder said:
I just wonder if there is a child lock on the boiling water? Would hate anyone to get burnt.
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The builders we had doing the rest of the house couldn't figure out how to use ours, so they bought a kettle :rofl:

It's great, instant boiling water so you can make tea without waiting around, also fill pans to boil water for rice/pasta.

There's two units under the sink, the boiler and reservoir and a descale/filter.

Cost to run is't that much as it is very well insulated. I had a power meter on it originally as I was going to turn it off when we weren't about but didn't bother as it.

One of those luxuries that are absolutely not a necessity but I wouldn't want to be without it now I'm used to it.
 
I went Grohe RED Duo Col... was not a fan when Mrs MadNat came up with the idea... but once fitted you take it for granted. Being Yorkshire - I think the filter life is more important (i.e. cheaper to use gas boiler heated water for general use than use the filter + Electric)
 
Got one and will never go back. Once you have it you can't live without it.

Also, when you need boiling water in pans on the hob, doesn't take ages and use loads of gas to heat a cold water pan up.

No idea how much energy it uses and don't really care but was told when we bought it that if you boil the kettle more than 3 times a day, you'll save money.

I would not recommend going for a cheap alternative, go with the best - Quooker

Buy one, you won't regret it!
 
Had one in our flat in London and it was one of the first things we ordered when we moved earlier this year. Can't imagine living without one now.
 
never new these existed, my gf has a million cups of tea a day so sounds like might be quite energy efficient! But we just had new quite expensive tap installed so don't want to replace it, is there a version which just works with any tab? ie supplies the instant hot water?
 
We have one of these in the kitchen! We love our coffee, has a hot water tank so instant boiling water for tea pot noodles etc! Luckily I bought a job lot of 3 of these for a not bad price

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MadNat said:
They have filters so the water going into the boiler tank should reduce the amount of scaling. My filter - came with a hardness test kit, so you set the filter appropriately... Time will tell how long it lasts.
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Pretty sure the filter is an extra - I'm not in a hard water area so don't have one of those on mine as far as I know.
 
Had one for about 5 years now - I don't think it saves money, but also don't think it's that costly to run either. It's brilliant. It's one of those luxuries that becomes an essential when you've had one, like a dishwasher...
 
Not sure If they save or cost more to run but they definitely save you time. My mum has one on a timer (so it’s not wasting heating during the night) instant boiling water is a luxury you very quickly expect.

been thinking of getting one for my house but never got around to it, yet.
 
BigIan said:
Not sure If they save or cost more to run but they definitely save you time. My mum has one on a timer (so it’s not wasting heating during the night) instant boiling water is a luxury you very quickly expect.

been thinking of getting one for my house but never got around to it, yet.
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Thing is it will definitely save me money as most nights I goto bed and my solar batteries are over 50% full still.
Today was the worst I’ve generated this month just over 8KWh as it’s been dull gray and very overcast day.
Yet my battery is still at 49% as we head to bed so using it throughout the day they reckon it uses around 800w on standby plus the dispensing boost each time it’s used.
So it replaces the kettle and a lot more efficient especially as the wife often boils our one cup kettle 2-3 times for cooking purposes to prepare rice, noodles and pasta ect.

Off to bed with this still in the tank.

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Colywobbles said:
Yet my battery is still at 49% as we head to bed so using it throughout the day they reckon it uses around 800w on standby plus the dispensing boost each time it’s used.
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Are you referring to the tap in this sentence, Col? I think the Quooker tap uses 10W on standby, which is about the same as my TV does on standby - pretty much nothing.

This article has a bit more info about cost of ownership - the figure quoted is 3p per day cost of running, based on 28p a kWh electricity price.
 
After a new kitchen fit out last year We decide to get the one with chilled and sparkling water. I have it on a smart socket ( amazon £13 ) that turns the whole system off at 10.30pm and on again at 6am. According to Qooker have it it on all day is less than 1 kettles power. I use a C02 Bar bottle with an adaptor off the internet to refill the gas for the sparkling as me and my boy cane it. 25£ for the year against 4 original refills for £70 - i probably refill it every month or more atm. My neighbour has the soap dispenser which i never knew about and is very clever.
As above i wouldn’t go back. Any water for cooking for saucepans etc is done via the tap then onto the induction - my take on saving heating water for cooking.
Water filters change once year @£70. i have a non salt osmio water filter and usual in-line magnetic one as standard. We are in london so limescale is rife. However the osmio filter does it’s job rather well.
In all about £2500 with the in sinkerator. Expensive but changes the way you live, i drink water more water now. The missis makes fancy cocktails and cooking pasta is much quicker. Also no filthy kettle and no more limescale remover ….
 

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OK I went the budget route due to advice from a member who fits and services them but nonetheless its a great piece of kit and the wife really happy I've at least replaced my leaky tap.

I went with the insinkerator Neo which was £650 from Amazon prime and fitted it all in a few hours.
Only been fitted 3 days but I can already see how it’s so handy and would be a miss.
Thanks again for all the advice
 

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Colywobbles said:
OK I went the budget route due to advice from a member who fits and services them but nonetheless its a great piece of kit and the wife really happy I've at least replaced my leaky tap.

I went with the insinkerator Neo which was £650 from Amazon prime and fitted it all in a few hours.
Only been fitted 3 days but I can already see how it’s so handy and would be a miss.
Thanks again for all the advice
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Just make sure you run plenty of cold water during and especially after use. I went for the 2nd from bottom of range model from screwfix - approx £250 and it does everything except bones and fruit stones - lemon and lime skin is very very tough mind and takes a while to go. easier to throw out
 
SeikoKid said:
Just make sure you run plenty of cold water during and especially after use. I went for the 2nd from bottom of range model from screwfix - approx £250 and it does everything except bones and fruit stones - lemon and lime skin is very very tough mind and takes a while to go. easier to throw out
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This is the insinkerator tap not disposal. And you right they do a low end range which isn’t quite up to the job and there is a cheaper tap at about £450 but doesn’t have the uprated NEO boiler.
Think the low end ranges made for likes of BnQ ect
 
apologies, i didn’t know they did taps . misunderstood you. Glad it’s working well 👍
 
Col did you order the brushed steel finish? Did you do the install yourself and was it fairly straightforward? I've got a leaky kitchen tap and this looks just the ticket!
 
The first one of these I saw was a Zip Tap. It was commercially orientated and cost a small fortune. Perhaps over 2k

I think Quooker was the first widely marketed domestic product. They are a quality item but sell at a premium and used to bundle the installation with the product supply aka rip-off territory.

I have a Grohe red dot boiler tap. I wanted a mainstream, recognised, brand with sensibly priced spare parts as I live in a hard water area and have regular issues with dripping taps, ball valves etc.

It was heavily discounted in the January 2018 sales when a new model came out and mine cost below £600. The new model was probably about a grand and was basically identical.

I have not investigated how much energy it uses - it is so wonderfully convenient that I don't actually care. Whether it is for drinks or for filling a pan you want boiling water for, or rapidly cleaning/ sterilising something ...... it saves a significant amount of time.

I am on oil fired central heating but have this electric tap and also one electric shower and these act as useful backups should my boiler give trouble.

The argument is that the 3 litre water boiler is insulated and you only draw what you need so they should be pretty efficient.

Common sense tells me that running it through the night must waste energy so I have mine on a basic plug in timer simiar to this one that uses virtually nothing on standby. So my boiler unit is only energised for about 16h a day.16668794829035860467843873641325.jpg16668806553812169477054962613590.jpg
 
J.C.Rox said:
Col did you order the brushed steel finish? Did you do the install yourself and was it fairly straightforward? I've got a leaky kitchen tap and this looks just the ticket!
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Don’e it all myself and normally shy away from plumbing when possible.
I went Chrome but did fancy the black satin but Amazon didn’t have it at the time.
It’s a really nice solid tap with a quality feel far nicer than my Franke old one that was leaking like billio.
Can’t go wrong we love ours and wonder how we managed without already. 😂
 
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Doesn't solve your dish washing but I've used one of these for years for making a cuppa. One cup at a time.
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Ive had a similar one of these for nearly 14 years now and also just got one of those smart plugs with energy monitoring in it to see how much it uses which I can now reveal is a massive 42Wh for a single cup or roughly 1.3p are the current price cap, quite suprised how low that actually was.
 
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