Quooker or no Quooker
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Comments (23)I really loved the idea of one of these taps, but when I recently installed a small galley kitchen in a holiday home I realised just how much space they take up in the cabinet, particularly if you want the chiller option. My kitchen designer had installed them before and said that the descaling was a nuisance for many of his clients, particularly in an area with extremely hard water such as ours. The descaling filter cartridge option is expensive and it would be difficult to know how often to change it when the house is not much used. Also the designs of the taps do not appeal to me personally. It is a shame that there is not a wider range available in the UK that would work in a more traditional style of kitchen. In the end the space and design considerations meant that we decided to use a small stove top kettle which boils very quickly to 100 degrees on an induction hob. It is easy enough to boil just a small amount and it doesn't clutter up the workspace like an electric kettle. We can either use a filter jug or simply descale the kettle when necessary. Personally I don't enjoy tea or coffee made with hard water because of the brew strength. Reading comments above about the bubbles causing scum and the lower water temperature reassures me we made the right decision for ourselves.... Eight years ago I considered having one in my larger home kitchen but discounted it because of my dislike of the design of the the taps available. I ended up with the simple P&R Phoenician taps and, as I have a range cooker here, the stove top kettle is again an easy option....See MoreKitchen design
Comments (50)OK I had a look at your room plans last night and put together a design for you. Of course it's not completely tailored to yourself as i've just gone on the pointers you've posted above and taken cues from the images you've saved to your Houzz Idea Books and the notes you've made. It has all the items on your wish list with the exception of a Quooker tap. Quooker are the market leaders in boiling water taps however all of their designs are very modern, so you may be best placed to use something like Abode's Province tap from their Pronteau range. One thing to note is that it's debatable if the design you posted at the start would even work as you have a structural steel to contend with unless your architects planes have been revised from the ones you emailed me? You'll have to excuse some of the visuals as they are quick renders rather than HD and the design isn't as polished as we would normally present to our clients due to time constraints, but hey it's a free design! Hopefully it gives some points as to what can be done in a space like that which isn't just a plain 'L's shape and island. I'm going to look pretty silly if you hate it now!! Kitchen Republic...See Morecan you fit a quooker and large bins under a sink?
Comments (10)thanks for the link. I've been looking through those as well. It is all made more complicated by what cabinets we can and can't have with a foot pedal, something OH has set his heart on. We also don't really want the extra 300mm cupboard if we don't have to. We've decided to forget about the quooker until the kitchen turns up. If there is space in the cabinet with the sink and the bins then we will put one in. As OH says, we are trying too hard to spend lots more money!...See MoreDoes anyone have issues with their Quooker leaking?
Comments (20)I refer you to my earlier point. Your failure to remedy this fault after three years is shocking. You should have a word with yourself for still moaning about it but doing nothing. In the last three years you could have found out how to turn down the pressure yourself- it’s likely a valve under your sink. Or you could have phoned Quooker for free advice, or you could have asked your plumber to do it when you had your boiler serviced, or you could have asked an inexpensive handyman to turn down the pressure, or you could have booked a local plumber or you could have booked a Quooker engineer. Imagine- if you had done that in your two year warranty period any parts may have been free….. (although it sounds like it just needs either the pressure turning down or an overflow pipe clearing- so likely no parts required) In any case you will have to have done something if you ever want to try a small claim because currently you don’t have a quantifiable claim- if you spend £100 resolving the problem you then have an amount you can claim- at the moment you don’t....See More- 2 months ago
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