Hot water taps

We love our Quooker, have had it for 6 years and it's only gone wrong once. The Quooker people came round and fixed it quickly with no problems.

Oh lordy Beechnut: you'll just have to drink the wine....

Chocolatelovinggran

I'm with you, Astitchintime. Two of my children have them, and I think they're fiddly, and prone to scalding the unwary.
Kettle for me, thanks

I don’t have kettle either. My daughter waltzed off with mine when she moved house 😂

We had a Quooker Fusion fitted in our new kitchen over 10 years ago. Quooker engineer changed filter around 5 years ago. If it were to break wouldn't hesitate replacing with same make or get it repaired if necessary. Absolutely love it!

Aldom I am still delighted with it. Find it extremely easy and safe to use. When I am at any my children's houses I really miss this. It is just this re-set thingie. On advice of my engineer son-in-law I do not actually replace the filter every year. He says the sort of use I give this (just me living here) definitely will last me longer than 12 months. But it still needs to be re-set every 12 months. The reset is just a matter of pressing a couple of buttons for about 30seconds and watching for colour change on lights. For someone who knows what they are doing the whole action would take less than a couple of minutes. So I suppose the manufacturers do not think this is any sort of problem. The problem arises from the very bad instructions that accompany it.

There obviously needs to be some improvements on these fairly new articles. I would really dislike NOT having one now, so those thinking about it, do not be put off by this once a year re-set problem.

I love ours. It's a Perrin and Rowe and I would have one again everytime. We've never had a problem with it.

I'm with you, Astitchintime. Two of my children have them, and I think they're fiddly, and prone to scalding the unwary.
Kettle for me, thanks

It does sound a bit of a faff to have to reset it every time Franbern. Maybe you can get cheaper filters elsewhere? I do that for my Liebherr fridge and save two thirds of the cost.
The man who runs the company that makes and fits my kitchens knows many people who've had them and believes that they're not worth the space that you lose in the kitchen, unless you have a pretty large room with space to spare.
My son has one and I worry a little about my granddaughters scalding themselves, though fortunately this has not happened so far. Using the collar does take a bit of getting used to, they have to show me how it works every time I visit!
In our house the normal hot tap water is pretty hot and I start with this when cooking pasta or veg. If I need water for tea I use the hot water function on my coffee machine, it works well.

My plumber once said he'd never have a Quooker and my kitchen fitter also pulled a face when I mentioned it, so that
was enough red flags for me!

Sorry, don't know the make.

My daughter had one fitted which sounds like yours Georgesgran.
I know she's had a new filter but no mention of any problems.

My brother had one, replaced it when it went wrong. Never bothered with one when they had a new kitchen fitted and three different houses and new kitchens later haven’t bothered either so that says a lot to me.

A friend with RA looked at having one, but she couldn’t manage the ‘collar’ that adjusts the temperature.
I’ve a tap that includes filtered water - with the gubbins in the cupboard under the sink.

I certainly remember how pleased you were when you first had the Franke tap.

I've often wondered about one.
Your post Franbern has made the decision for me. It's definitely a NO. Life is complicated enough, without adding to it.

No, and after almost scalding myself at my BIL’s with his faulty Quooker tap I certainly won’t be bothering……..far too much faff when they go wrong by all accounts.

Sorry, Know nothing about Quokker, but I think I’ve got a Franke sink and mixer taps. - that’s as far as it goes. I’m sure there will be others coming along, who will enlighten you. Good luck !