Instant hot water taps

Francisco

Hi

Does anyone have any thoughts on instant hot water (not boiling) taps, like tap magic? I am thinking of installing one in my new kitchen and wondered if anyone had any thoughts, positive or negative they would care to share.

Many thanks

Francisco

hfallada

I know they are fairly expensive eg I know someone who spent €700 on one

Francisco

Thanks - the ones I am looking at are around 200 for taps and extra for installation. The ones for boiling (as opposed to hot) water are much more expensive.

Marcusm

I know 2 homes with them. In one, they happily make tea using the water. In the other, one person raves about how foible it is while the other thinks it's handy to have super hot water for blanching veg but does not see it as "boiling".

c montgomery

Marcusm wrote: »

I know 2 homes with them. In one, they happily make tea using the water. In the other, one person raves about how foible it is while the other thinks it's handy to have super hot water for blanching veg but does not see it as "boiling".

Foible? Does this not mean a character fault in a person? If it can also be used for objects I've happily learnt a new thing today

Marcusm

c montgomery wrote: »

Foible? Does this not mean a character fault in a person? If it can also be used for objects I've happily learnt a new thing today

I typed flexible, it auto "corrected" to foible.

SpaceTime

Be careful if you've kids though. Water over 60C scalds badly.

c montgomery

Marcusm wrote: »

I typed flexible, it auto "corrected" to foible.

Haha, I hate autocorrelation

Foible is a word I only recently discovered so was just wondering if I had incorrect meaning for it.
Didn't want to come across as pedantic although I'm sure I did
Cheers

Francisco

Thanks for the clarification - I was thinking the same about foible and wasn't exactly sure if that was a pro or a con. Flexible is definitely a pro I reckon!

zagmund

We've had one for the last two years. One thing to note is that they take all the ceremony out of making a cup of tea or coffee. There's no "I'm just popping out to put the kettle on" and then disappearing for 10 minutes. The water is just there so making a cup of something takes 10 seconds from start to finish. We find it great. One of the valves stuck at one point - I rang the manufacturers and they just put a new one in the post no problem, no charge.

Our one has a safety feature so you can't accidentally turn on the hot tap. You have to push and twist it to get the water flowing, so the chances of a small child doing it are small.

z

doctorchopper

Just make sure it has a decent flow rate at a hot temp. The cheaper ones take forever to get a decent amount of hot water in the sink. I recently switched out the boiler to a combi boiler and its the best investment i ever made, tankless and endless supply of hot hater at a incredible flow rate, down side is water rates but we won't get into that

Cuddlesworth

doctorchopper wrote: »

Just make sure it has a decent flow rate at a hot temp. The cheaper ones take forever to get a decent amount of hot water in the sink. I recently switched out the boiler to a combi boiler and its the best investment i ever made, tankless and endless supply of hot hater at a incredible flow rate, down side is water rates but we won't get into that

I've been living with a combi boiler now for a year and it would definitely be the first thing I would install before a electric system.

Mrs OBumble

Mr Obumble recently installed one, and found it didn't work. Someone he knew thought it could be due to low water pressure, and this was backed up by discrete off the record enquiries to a council engineer.