This is not an issue for us as we have no children in our household. The only drawback might be that there is no safety for the boiling water tap. Read more system to deliver the water so far less to go wrong and much smaller to have in your cupboard. It uses the water pressure rather than a pump. The flow is better from the Insinkerator too as you can adjust the water flow with a small tap. We went from a chiller unit to an ambient unit and whilst I do sometimes miss the chilled water, with a couple of ice cubes I have chilled water pretty quickly. The near boiling water temperature is adjustable and is certainly hotter than we had from our Hydrotap that couldn't be user adjusted. We replaced a 10 year old Hydrotap with this Insinkerator unit and have been delighted with the performance. I don't tend to replace the filter as often as they say, as they cannot 'soften' the water effectively at that working temperature, and the boiling water does not come out 'scummy'. Bit of a problem when restarted with it over boiling, had to turn the temp setting back and slowly increasing it.
Gasket held OK, on reassembly, with no leaks. In February 2017 I took it apart and descaled it, (as described previously) quite a lot in the bottom and up the sides.
Further problems with a partial blocked pipe,10 months back, causing very slow flow, tried de-scaler, and poking a wire up, to no effect, so had to buy a new tap assembly and Y piece at 163gbp & 17gbp. So maybe we were luckier than most having 7 years out of it, but I think only 3 star because of no service parts available, typical of a lot of companies these days. We have had no leaks in the time it has been working only a slight weep from the tap above the worktop, which sealed itself, not sure how or why, maybe more scale. Of course the old ploy of Health and Safety was quoted!!! So just installed a new boiler unit at £290, with 2 year guarantee so at the end of that I will strip it down and clear out the scale manually, an easy job as the boiling tank is held together with about 10 small nuts and bolts, with a rubber gasket between, that gasket could be a problem. Read more only companies like ISE to make the end product. I called them but they do not sell these to individuals. The element is 1300 watts and you can find them on the net, made by a company called Gangchun in China, minimum quantity 800 units!! Also the thermal switch on the back of it is made by Strix in the Isle of Man. On opening it up it was just about full up with chalk and hard scale, possibly more frequent filter changes may have helped, but we are in a very hard water area. Now Feb 2015 the element has packed up, it trips the circuit breaker.
We had ours installed with a new kitchen in 2007.
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