I have one day to decide… boiling water tap or not? (Hard water area)

[Jessforless]

Essentially just that, we have to finalise our kitchen tomorrow and we have gone back and forth on this for a year. This is our last chance to add this.

Our feedback from friends has been 50/50, but my DH really wants one.

Would you add one? (And do you live in a hard water area?)

Thanks in advance!

Yes they are great for hot drinks, cooking and cleaning the sink
I've only had mine a month but love it

I never understood the hype but then moved into a house with one and now I'm a convert! I love it and if we ever redid our kitchen I'd put another one in.

Yes, and yes. I would definitely have one again, and I do live in a hard water area.

They have changed my life. And it has a filter, so removes the hardness. Couldn't be better. I have a Grohe Red duo.

I didn't want one but DH did, we've had it three years now and I'm a total convert. Very hard water but no issues so far.

Yes but get a water softener too, utterly life changing!!

Absolutely get one

Following as we're hopefully moving soon. I really want one and would use it quite a lot as I WFH.

Yes , we have one
DH did not want one , but now agrees it was the best decision we ever made

Yes to both, love it and would replace it. Had it 5 years and it’s been life changing.

yes you do need to maintain it but we also had to descale the kettle so…..

we both WFH and go in to the office maybe one day a month, but when I’m in I drink so much water refilling my bottle! Hopefully this would translate at home.

How do you maintain it if you don’t mind me asking?

I find them a waste of money. Tea tastes vile especially in a hard water area. Guess they save time if you cook a lot with hot water.

We also got a water softener which has been brilliant but the water to the boiling water tap is still hard, we didn't want to drink softened water. The water softener is brilliant for the bathroom, no more limescale.

I would definitely recommend one op. We got one when we put a new kitchen in. I love it, it's great for quick hot drinks, hot water bottles etc. I love that it's less clutter on the worktop too.

We have one and love it. Fitted two years ago, very hard water area and no issues at all. It’s so handy, if we ever move I’ll definitely have another.

Bobbing on to point out that non-top branded ones heat to something like 96 or 98 degrees, not 100 degrees; if not quite boiling is ok, then get a non-top branded one.

But do get one, they are marvellous things.

Yes! We put one in and at first I wasn’t too bothered but after going on holiday and having to use a kettle again, I am converted.

Only if you aren’t fussy about tea.

Get one but definitely add as many filters or softeners as possible because the limescale is a killer. Get a good maintenance/care plan with them. I've fitted a range of different taps in my workplaces and it's always the limescale that kills them.

I just change the filter. It has a monitor, so when it says to change the filter, I change it.

For completeness, we have a water softener too, but the softened water goes to all other taps and not the kitchen tap. Drinking water tastes odd through a softener.

The filter removes the hardness for the drinking water and the boiled water. We drink a lot of tea, and no discernable difference between the boil tap and the kettle. I think my wife thought it would be crap, but she is a convert too.

We have a quooker - you do need to replace filters but dh does it every 6 months +, he also has to do it for the boiler so….

Depending on which one you get will determine what you need to “maintain”.still wouldn’t put me off!

I haven’t had any tea concerns, but I prefer herbal tea and coffee so to be honest I wouldn’t know 🤗 dh (committed tea drinker) hasn’t mentioned anything though.

I'm not sure I see the point of them tbh. Criminally expensive, you could buy a lifetime's worth of kettles for what they cost.

Plus there's always endless jobs to do in a kitchen while waiting for the kettle or a pan of water to boil so I don't see how they'd save any time.

We have one at work and it's really hard to operate. Another of those things designed for men's big hands not women's small ones.

No way. There's a certain ritual about putting the kettle on and waiting a few minutes for it to boil.

Instant just doesn't cut the mustard! I've heard the maintenance is quite high too...

I did a cost comparison. At the time, and for my usage and tap type, it worked out massively cheaper to have the boil tap. This was based on me overfilling the kettle, which was real world. I've never seen anyone boil the exact amount of water in a kettle.

Dh runs a building company and a lot of people want these. When we did our kitchen he didn’t want one because he said the tea tastes crap from them, the water is very hot but not boiling - I don’t drink hot drinks at all so I didn’t care either way!