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instant hot water dispenser recommendation

12 years ago

Looking for a recommendation... does anybody have any favorites or brands to avoid? (I searched, didn't find any threads, please point me in the right direction if this has been covered.)

Hoping to find one in an oil rubbed bronze finish, but feel silly picking based only on the design of the faucet. They can, after all, be purchased separately, no?

Some reviews I've read point to Insinkerator as a safe bet?

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joyce_6333

12 years ago

In our last three homes, we've had insinerator brand. They're fine as long as you get the top of the line. The cheap ones only hold up for a couple years. In our new homes we put in a Kitchen Aid, and are not too happy with it. You literally have to push down with both hands to get a very small flow of water. And it's larger than it looks in the pictures.

Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen Aid Hot Water Dispenser

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beaglesdoitbetter1
12 years ago
We putthis one in at my dad's house. The package with faucet was cheaper than insinkerator and I have heard insinkerators have a tendency to leak. We have had this one for over a year and love it and I got the same Quik and Hot tank w/ a Westbrass faucet for our new house.
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We just installed our second Insinkerator instant hot water heater. We've had one in our main kitchen sink for years (maybe 10? at least 5) with no problems. Just put in a bar sink in our pantry and put a second one in there for tea (and instant simple syrup for cocktails) - which seemed like a ridiculous indulgence but with all the $ we spent on the cabinets not so much. This area is quite small and narrow and there was an issue with space. There's also a garbage disposal - had to work to make sure everything would fit but it did. The first one, we bought maybe the second cheapest model from HD, and the one we just bought was similar. The big price differentiators seem to be 1) adding filtered cold water and 2) fancy spouts. We opted for the simple spout with a red dot on it, which helps people know what it is (we have a lot of guests). Obviously we've been more than happy with ours.
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I thought the new Insinkerator tanks were stainless steel - I know there is now a 3-5 year in home warranty on the tank and dispenser (I think it gets extended from 3 to 5 on the tank if you use a certified ISE installer). Hopefully the new tanks will be an improvement over some of the reviews I have read on the old. I am putting in an instant hot, but with a lot of trepidation after reading some of the reviews over on Amazon. I was hoping that the bad reviews (and I've seen some bad reviews on all of them, not just Insinkerator) were the just the vocal exception because there seem to be a lot of happy instant hot owners here on this forum. The only Q I have is how long most of these people have owned theirs - maybe not long enough to give problems? I do have a friend who just replaced her tank after only a couple of years - it seems crazy that something that is not inexpensive would break so quickly. One thing I am definitely going to do is put something under the tank in case of leakage - I don't want my brand new cabinets to be damaged.
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---From an earlier post: "Another caveat: I live at (high) altitude, so water takes longer to boil here. Our insta-hot isn't as hot as it would be lower down. (It's still scalding hot, but I did notice a difference.) We canNOT use it for oatmeal (we put it in a pyrex measuring cup in the micro and that gets it hot enough for oatmeal), but that's here. Back in San Francisco it was hot enough straight out of the tap for (instant) oatmeal." --- Just a minor nitpick ... actually, the water boils sooner at altitude, but it boils at a lower temperature, so it takes things longer to cook. (It has to do with the lower air pressure at altitude, and water boils when the water vapor pressure exceeds the atmospheric pressure.) I'm trying to decide on an instant-hot, and I too am at altitude, so thanks for your experience. I guess the temp in the water tank is lower because it has to keep beneath boiling ... just like the coffee makers (coffee is never quite hot enough in the mountains, and just barely at home).
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I hope you get some responses because I would love this information, as well!
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juniork
12 years ago
I got the waste king. The 118 reviews on the Coronado was enough to convince me to give them a try. Too bad we're so behind that we haven't installed yet.
lascatx
12 years ago
Mine is a Little Gourmet by Mountain Plumbing. I love it, but somewhere in the 3rd year, we had to cut off the end of the rubbery tube that delivers the very hot water to the tap. The combination of very hot water (we keep it turned all the way or nearly all the way up), tube stretched over the connection and then the little wiggle caused by water pressure on and off eventually caused a leak right at the connection (sudden drop in water pressure at the tap). We had enough line that we cut it off and reconnected (2 minute fix), but I plan to go look for a stainless or other line that will hold up better for the long haul. Kind of like the installers suggest changing to a stainless supply line on your washer and dryer. If I had known that going into the installation, I'd have had no issues with it at all. Knowing it now, I'd still get the same unit -- just look for a better hot water line to install it with or replace after a year or two.
Fori
12 years ago
Insinkerator claims to get hotter. Don't know if it's true (or still true if it was). I got an Insinkerator because the faucet matched my big faucet best. My GC burned it up by not reading instructions and ISE sent out a guy who replaced the tank. I didn't have a receipt so that was nice (they had to do warranty based on date of manufacture which seemed fair). Even more impressive was that they had a trouble shooter on the phone on the weekends and after hours.

I loved it while I had it but the faucet (I had the hot/cool filtered system) got screwy and I had to follow instructions on Amazon reviews to fix it. (That faucet has been renamed and hopefully redesigned to not require homeowner repairs every 2 years!) Mine didn't leak in the time I had it--just the faucet wouldn't turn off..

I'd get it again. Doesn't hurt to put a leak detector under every kitchen sink, hot water tank or not!
gillycat
12 years ago
I got the quick and hot from Costco as it was a good deal and i had researched the tank
however, the faucet it came with wasn't what i wanted
got a separate faucet in the shape and colour I wanted and am very happy with both

the faucet is the mountain plumbing little gourmet

I absolutely love my instant hot

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