CH4 Property ladder - hot water tap....

bob_a_builder

apart from it heats what u need only

So do most kettles if only you can stop the lady of the house (Mrs Bob in this case) filling the damm thing to the top every time we need 2 cups of tea

I think i need the kettle equivelent of the 'brick in the cistern'

clairewp

bob_a_builder wrote: »

So do most kettles if only you can stop the lady of the house (Mrs Bob in this case) filling the damm thing to the top every time we need 2 cups of tea

I think i need the kettle equivelent of the 'brick in the cistern'

lol u need to get her one then cured me of my over filling addiction :rotfl:

adandem

I have noticed in the new Screwfix catalogue that they do a similar tap, I think they are around £200.

Canucklehead

adandem wrote: »

I have noticed in the new Screwfix catalogue that they do a similar tap, I think they are around £200.

Good morning: If you are referring to the Pegler Brita hot/cold/filtered tap sold by Screwfix it doesn't provide instantaneous hot water for drinking.

HTH

Canucklehead

silvercar

Those £50 three-second heaters only heat to 85 degrees. Fine for fruit teas but not recommended for real tea. The three seconds is only the time until the first drop reaches your cup, it will take 45 seconds to fill a mug.

ozskin

as canucklehead has said there are alternative also ther is one called a quooker although im not sure of this spelling just a brochure that was sent recently. all these are much more enviro friendly than a kettle and use less water

cfw1994

So is anyone using an inSinkerator, or perhaps a quooker ?
We are planning a kitchen refit after some building work in the next few months, and a hydrotap was also on our list until we saw the price....the insinkerator looks more like it, just over the price of a posh tap !

The Franke also only does 88 degrees, so not boiling....the insinkerator claims 98 degrees, and the quooker boils....but they have NO distributors in Leicestershire for us to go find one to see.

I'm curious about the noise of the units as well as how well they work.
thanks !
Mike

cfw1994

well, we went for one!
I used a plug in device to measure power usage of the kettle for several weeks prior to installation. Having had the quooker in for a couple now, I can confirm that it is around 15% MORE efficient on energy than our (relatively new Breville !) kettle.
You clearly waste no hot water re-boiling water, and when not in use the Quooker uses 1W or less !

It takes up an incredibly tiny space below: we have a sink and the quooker in a 500mm cupboard and still have space for squash bottles, I had seen the Zip Hydratap installed & that FILLED a 600mm unit (& did NOT boil the water !) !!

http://picasaweb.google.com/ikklefatch/Extension/photo?authkey=YG3ekxqRYsw#5221438363866049730 for ours in situ.

Clearly it is not a cheap item, and you can obviously buy a lot of kettles for one Quooker, but I have no hesitation in recommending it, and can at least have a little warm glow that it is "good" for the environment, at least energy-wise !

Noise-wise, it clearly steams up when pouring (could probably clear a clod holding your head over it !), but other than that it is pretty well silent.

Cheers

minghis

Aren't you all somewhat missing the point here - the Hydrotap's main money saving features are that it gives filtered chilled water at a fraction of the cost of bottled water.

Yes, the boiling water is convenient and will save waste and time but if you think about how much you spend on bottled water (if you do, of course..) the thing could pay for itself very quickly.

On a completely different scale I know, but Hampshire County Council recently put these Hydrotaps in their buildings and now save over £100,000 per year on not having to buy bottled water. Now how expensive is it....

sidmill

Hi everyone,

I'm considering a Quooker, and I would definitely use it in place of the hot water tap as we have a really long dead leg in the house. So each time we want hot water, we have to waste c. 5l of cold water down the sink, and then the hot pipe gets left to cool down. The latter part is only a problem when we would not otherwise heat the house.

Cold water costs us £2/m3 all told, so 10 x 5l per day x350 is 17.5m3 and £35 a year.

Loss of hot water is only in the summer months, and the rest of the time, oil heated water is still loads cheaper than electric heated water. So I ignore that saving unless we vary usage by season, which I doubt my wife would be bothered with.

15% savings on kettle usage would probably be achieved by the ecokettle we use at the moment, but I guess it needs replacing every couple of years, as its not very well built.

I bet the 5-year filter is not cheap. But anyway I will compare a boiler at £750 with paying say £50 a year for wasting water and buying kettles. It takes a long time to pay me back, 15 years in simplistic terms. And probably never for people without the ded leg we have.

But it is very cool.