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Pelletpinger

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Time for me to make Mrs Pinger a new kitchen, she wants one of these hot water jobbies. The ones we supply are top end and cost almost 2k so that ain’t happening!!
Theres plenty of cheaper ones about, just wondering if anyone has one that they would recommend. Ta.
 
Pelletpinger said:
Time for me to make Mrs Pinger a new kitchen, she wants one of these hot water jobbies. The ones we supply are top end and cost almost 2k so that ain’t happening!!
Theres plenty of cheaper ones about, just wondering if anyone has one that they would recommend. Ta.
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company I worked part time for did a few brands but the Qooker was the most popular they fitted . Maybe they did a deal on them and that was why they were the most popular with their customers . Not cheap though .
 
Bighit said:
company I worked part time for did a few brands but the Qooker was the most popular they fitted . Maybe they did a deal on them and that was why they were the most popular with their customers . Not cheap though .
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Yep Quooker are the kiddies, we haven’t ever had a problem with any of the ones we supplied but im too tight for one of those even at trade price lol.
 
As a balance, a friend of mine has one in his shop, quoting “ it’s handy for the shop, but I wouldn’t have it at home “
 
Expensive to buy, need professional installation and maintenance.
Which say
  • Need ongoing maintenance You'll need to clean the tap and tank regularly and buy replacement filters, which can add significantly to the ongoing cost. Also, limescale can be particularly problematic in hard water areas.
  • But Although they're constantly on standby to keep water hot for your tea or pan of pasta, instant hot water taps are surprisingly cheap to run – especially compared with kettles, which use short but intense bursts of energy to boil.
The place I worked in London had them fitted to all floors 8 about three kitchens on most floors and they seemed pretty reliable and safer than a kettle and fast. They weren’t filling saucepans though.
 
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We used to have an Insinkerator and now have a Quooker and to be perfectly honest I prefer the Insinkerator as it doesn't spit boiling hot water over your hand when filling a pan etc., the water flow is far more gentle.
 
We've had a Zip tap, a BIBO, a Franke (we still have) and a designer product which i cant recall the name of (as i recall it was about 4K when we bought it as part of a kitchen refurb, so not a budget model).

With regards to experience:

The Zip tap we had was not a boil tap (c.£2K). The tap we had would produce water at c.98C according to the control panel, but it only produced in v.small quantities i.e. not enough to fill a cup. We had Zip in to investigate, every time they came in the solution was to turn the temp down iirc to c.85Cwhich made it useless for making a good cup of tea as by the time the water got into the cup it was cooler and the tea brewed, it was not hot, especially if you added milk to it. We got a full refund from tap as the product was being miss-sold.

We have a BIBO counter top item in the office (c.£500) It produces plenty of hot water, chilled too. Its the second one weve had over a period of about 13 years, and it works absolutely fine, produces plenty of hot water,, just works, but it is a counter top model not an over sink model so may not be suitable for all.

At home we now have a France hot tap (c.£1K), which has a pressurized storage vessel, and produces boiling water, i think the storage is c.1,5l so thats about how much boiling water you can get out of it in one go. I have no idea how long it takes to heat from refill, but that suggests its pretty quick as i dont recall it being a problem. Weve had to replace the heating unit, and when we have done so its been replaced FOC, twice! Weve had the tap c. 5 years.

We havent had a Quooker, so no experience, but what i would say is make sure that whatever you get you understand a) what is supposed to do. After our experience with ZIp it appears that many so called boil taps are in fact not, but only hot water. That may suffice to you, but worth bearing in mind.

If you want to make half a dozen cups of tea, then the unit needs to have sufficient capacity to do that without the need to wait for the tank to reheat and not all appear to be able to do that.

This is all JMHO so HTH. Glenn
 
Bill.B said:
We used to have an Insinkerator and now have a Quooker and to be perfectly honest I prefer the Insinkerator as it doesn't spit boiling hot water over your hand when filling a pan etc., the water flow is far more gentle.
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Couple of suggestions;

What tap have you got?...if it's one with a pull out hose/ counterweight, hose might not be fitted correctly into the counterweight;

Water pressure MAY be too high... Quookers do not like anything above 4.5 bar:

How old is the tap/ has it been serviced?

As mentioned above; do you live in a hard water area. Can cause bad limescale build up?

Edit; who fitted the tap?... Quooker or 'plumber/ kitchen company '?

I am not connected to this company in any way- but know an employee
 
uncle bulgaria said:
Couple of suggestions;

What tap have you got?...if it's one with a pull out hose/ counterweight, hose might not be fitted correctly into the counterweight;

Water pressure MAY be too high... Quookers do not like anything above 4.5 bar:

How old is the tap/ has it been serviced?

As mentioned above; do you live in a hard water area. Can cause bad limescale build up?

Edit; who fitted the tap?... Quooker or 'plumber/ kitchen company '?

I am not connected to this company in any way- but know an employee
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Hi, the tap is a Quooker hot water only tap with counterweight and is just one year old. It was fitted by a well respected and local kitchen installation company and the water pressure did have to be dialled down as I recall. Maybe the pressure needs to be reduced a bit further to stop the spitting?
 
Bill.B said:
Hi, the tap is a Quooker hot water only tap with counterweight and is just one year old. It was fitted by a well respected and local kitchen installation company and the water pressure did have to be dialled down as I recall. Maybe the pressure needs to be reduced a bit further to stop the spitting?
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Possibly????

If it's 12 months old, is it still under warranty?????
A message to Quooker may, or may not, get it sorted?

I will try and ask the question

UB.
 
Quookers still spit. My parents have one, no couterweight/hose just a solid spout. Water pressure is only 3.5 bar for where they live and its still spits when boiling. Normal hot/cold water is smooth as silk.
 
I installed our Qooker four years ago and wouldn’t be without it. I change the filters yearly, both the cold and the filter in the hot water flask.
Had a flexi hose spring a small leak, Quooker set out replacement hoses free of charge..

Once I replaced the filter in the flask and I must have flexed the heating element without knowing. Kept tripping the house.. After making a call to Quooker and having bit of a moan, they sent me out new internals at a greatly reduced price and threw in a new software cap foc

If mine does spit, I either replace or soak the aerator in white vinegar overnight to clean the scale off..





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