I have a Quooker in my house here for the past fourteen years, another in the house in England since the mid nineties. Why would one want an ugly kettle there when it can be combined into a tap I ask! The other day I was alerted to the fact that they are not legal in France…
Idly net surfing this morning, I see much reference that this is the case! The Connexion even has a full blown page on the subject! What nonsense! One cannot have a hot tap but perfectly ok to have an all singing dancing coffee machine with a steam tap? C’mon
I am sure that many of us here must have a hot tap? What is the penalty, does anyone know, if visited by the hot tap police…?
There’s a legal temperature limit (max produced by a hot water ballon) to prevent accidental scalding from normal kitchen and bathroom taps.
No idea how it’s enforced regarding Quooker taps though, apart from not selling the boiling water option in France.
Are they really as good as the ad’s claim?
Another Quooker fan here. Brilliant devices! We got one because our hot water tank is at the other end of the bungalow and hot water has to heat up miles of pipe before it gets to the kitchen.
I believe the logic of prohibiting taps that produce water at more than 60C is in order to avoid children getting scalded, but the Quookers have a safety interlock whereby you have to double-press a ring around the neck of the tap and then turn it in order to get the boiling water - something that a child is not going to know how to do, and us unlikely to work out by accident.
(Photo for those who haven’t come across a Quooker tap)
It also takes quite a bit of force to do the “double-press”.
I doubt that the gendarmerie have a special “department robinets” so I would imagine the chances of it being a problem are remote.
Possibly your home insurance might kick if you had a flood in the kitchen and claimed, and the leak was traced to the ballon under the sink - but that’s assuming the insurance assessor even knows what a Quooker tap looks like.
…I employ a full-time small child to open fiddly packaging.
( this is not true of course. If I struggle to open something, I let out a deep sigh, and then throw the packet in a corner and move in with the day).
(We had a Quooker in our apartment in The Hague, drove me nuts at the thought of keeping a tank if very hot water on full-time to just to make the occasional cup of tea so I took it out and gave it away. Now we have a normal kettle. Much better.)
Cold showers for the rest of your natural
Why is so much bumf about control these days. Too many rules (not laws) get out of date due to new tech coming in but no audit of old rules to remove them. Ah well more important stuff to worry about.
Had one in the office when I used to be a Vodaclone and was hooked from day one. Mind you, I’m sure they installed them so we’d spend less time in the kitchen gossiping and more time at our desks working…
I’ve told the missus that it’s something I’d like to have when we get our forever home, but that might change when it comes to actually forking out for the thing.
I don’t think it actually works like that - it’s more a case of “heat on demand” do can work out cheaper to run than a kettle I believe,
But with ours it’s also about instant gratification - no waiting for hot to arrive from the other end of the building, nor waiting for a kettle to boil.
Who knows now, with all income being derived from the UK. Dont worry it looks like more and more rules is a thing everywhere so the grass may look greener but its the same fertiliser
I didn’t know they weren’t allowed in France, we ordered it online and they sent it out, I’m not certain but I don’t think they have 3rd party sellers, we had to order the one for the UK directly from them. Maybe the law changed in France more recently?
