Pot fillers behind stove

[Ohhellnooo]

Deathly dull, I know, but is it worth having one?

Kitchen is completely stripped out, plumber not coming for a couple of weeks (big project) so we’ve got some time to sort it if we want one.

Dh is getting his dream range cooker and I thought it might be an idea, just not sure if it will be a waste of money!

I don’t know what a pot filler is? And how would you reach it if it’s behind the stove?

I don’t see the point myself. You still have to take the pan to the sink to drain it, which is much trickier as by then it’s boiling hot. And if you like to fill the pan from the kettle, you’re now using cold water instead of hot to fill with. I like to run the tap a little before using it, too. I fill my pans with warm water from the tap to give them a head start on boiling (I have a combi boiler not a hot water tank so it’s fresh water), and you can’t do that with a pot filler. That’s the cons list, and I can’t think of a pro!

Agree with @MaryLennoxsScowl they seem a bit pointless to me.

Far better is to make sure the sink is as short a distance to the hob as possible, so you can easily drain your hot water and you're less likely to have an accident.

The best layout I had for this was when we had a sink in a peninsula. It was a quick turn to fill/empty pots. The sink was accessible from the other side too, so I put a hot drinks area on that side, along with the dishwasher. It was genius, even of i do say so myself!

I think pot fillers look lovely @Ohhellnooo and was tempted to get one at a previous house. At that time they were quite difficult to find in the UK and like other posters I wasn't sure of the practicalities, so we opted for an articulated tap for our Belfast sink instead. It has the same look as a pot filler and I love it so much plus it ridiculously cost almost £900 we removed it before marketing the house and kept it stored to use in our new kitchen (not done yet). I'll see if I can find a pic from our old kitchen!

Here you go.....
Only thing is we're having brass handles etc in this kitchen so am considering getting the tap plated 🙄

We have one, I love it and use it every day. We have six of us living here, quite a big kitchen and a range cooker. My mother lives with us and still likes to cook regularly but I wasn't happy about her managing to carry large pots of water around, hot or cold. Yes, the pot still needs emptying but she now doesn't need to fill up and carry a pot from the sink and just uses a slotted spoon to take out whatever she's cooking and I empty it when it's convenient for me.

The other option would be to have had the sink closer but that wouldn't have worked so well in the overall layout - plus there happened to be a water pipe running through the cooker wall from the other side at exactly the right height so there was almost zero plumbing required. Had there been any need to run pipes around the room and channel out walls I probably wouldn't have bothered.

It's nice to have and works for us but not an essential in most cases.

The sink is very close to the stove anyway. The stove and sink are on the L shaped bit of the kitchen. It’s just a few steps to the sink.

I have eyesight issues which are only going to get worse, so I figured it may come in use to me in the future, that was my main reason.

They come out of the wall like this.

That looks lovely!

Thank you! I’ve never seen one of those before.

Looks handy but I’d probably agree with other posters about needing to go to sink to drain anyway.

I'd never heard of these before but people obviously like them.

The first thing I thought when looking at the picture was it would be a pain to clean as it would get spattered from cooking.

You would still have to carry pans of hot water to the sink to drain them so I can't see why you can't carry a pan of cold water from the sink. It's not like you are lugging about bath tub sized pans to boil a whole ox in all the time! I always boil water in the kettle, which is the most efficient way of heating water, and pour it into the pan when it is on the stove.

I can’t see more than a tiny benefit for these . I also think that they add to a cluttered appearance in the kitchen which is hard enough to keep looking sleek as it is. I agree with the op who mentioned keepingbb Bit clean and grease free,why add in a job? They are a bit of a fad imo and as such will quickly look dated.

I would boil the water in the kettle first so they wouldn’t work for me.

Wooden worktops are ideal for use in showrooms, and in rooms that do not contain taps, sinks, hot pans, kettles, teapots or sharp knives.

Your picture fills me with horror.

BTW that kind of tap will drip as it ages.

And if you have brass, you will need to employ a kitchen maid to polish it every day.

Thanks - fortunately you don't have to live there.

The Hornbeam Ivy tap is eleven years old and has never dripped. Nor do I expect it to. That's why you buy quality taps, not cheap Chinese shit!

As for the worktops - we've put iroko/teak worktops into three houses and have always been really happy with them, which is why we're choosing it again for our current home. But we're not messy, always wipe any spillages immediately, are careful with sharp knives and have an ample supply of trivets for hot pans. I appreciate many people can't be arsed to clean up after themselves, but we've had granite etc previously and I'm not a fan.

Plus, I like my brass to age naturally - like myself - lol 😆

My work colleague had one installed and said it's convenient for filling a pot or pan, however she rarely uses it. Her two main gripes were..

Because it's positioned quite high there's splash back when it's turned on and she finds it difficult to judge and position it right because the tap is so far from the pot. (She only missed once though)

She often has to bring the pot to the sink and tip some of the water out becasue she's over filled it.

Those aren't deal breakers for me but she has said it's a solution to a problem that she doesn' really have. She doesn't have to fill huge pots of water at the sink and bring it to the cooker. She's boiling a few eggs or cooking pasta which don't require that much effort or large volumes of water.

I am just constantly trying to find ways that will make my life easier as my vision goes. It’s not far fro
the sink at all, but I just don’t know where my feet are sometimes, I know that makes no sense, but I’ve got so many blind spots that I’m all over the place if I have to carry things. It’s thrown ALL my senses off.

I’m hesitant to carry a boiling pan to drain, I’ve done that before, misjudged and poured boiling water over my stomach, which was fun. But I do want to keep a bit of independence while I am getting used to things (I mean, I get used to the way I see, then it gets worse which is a kicker), I figured if I could fill it up without being a useless idiot who will trip and spill water everywhere on the few steps from the sink, it might make it easier for a while. My husband does all of the cooking as I keep burning myself, I just feel fucking useless. This renovation is mainly to make the house easier for me, opening the house up so I don’t have walls to bang into (my vision has fucked my spacial awareness).

Misjudging things is a massive problem of mine though, you should see me making a cup of tea, so I guess I’d end up with water all over the hob anyway.

Isn't it cheaper to boil a kettle than heat water on the hob?

I have a Quooker opposite the stove instead so I fill the pot with pre-boiling water, turn around and put it on the stove, then I can do the same in reverse to drain it.

I don't think I'd want a pot filler just to fill a pot with cold water, and have to clean it after things had been spitting - it's bad enough having to clean the grout in the tiled backsplash, I wouldn't want to be doing it to the joints of a potfiller too

Ah - just saw your update - it doesn't solve the carrying a pot of boiling water, just the carrying a pot of cold water - like PP says, it's solving a problem that you don't really have.

What you need is a pot-emptier (which doesn't exist)

dh is the pot emptier.

I just thought it might be a way of feeling a bit less useless. It’s hard to not be able to do much without help all of a sudden.

I’ll get used to it in time. I have friend who is registered blind and she whizzes about the kitchen, but she was born without vision so she says it’s all second nature. I’ve gone from good vision to it deteriorating so it’s hard to get used to.

Depends whether it is gas or electric.

These pot fillers look like another gimmicky waste of time to me. Just another tap to potentially leak or go wrong.

If you don't like carrying big pans of water around you can reduce the amount you need to do significantly by buying a steamer.

If the sink and stove are close together then you need a little train track running between them. You would have a flat bed truck to put the pan on and wheel it along to the sink and then a tipping mechanism at the sink. I’m pretty sure you can get a stand that will tip a kettle so fixing one to some wheels shouldn’t be hard.

Or a hoist on an arm that can swing between the stove and the sink.

Or on a more realistic level, you can get stainless steel cooking baskets that fit inside the pan and then you just lift the vegetables or pasta out and leave DH to empty the pan later.