Quooker Installation Questions

[Spinny]

quooker boiling water only tap with Pro3 tank.

Plumber mentioned some people cut a hole in the base of the cupboard and install a dish in the hole so the tank can sit lower into the plinth space.

Anyone ever seen this, done this, point me at the metal dish people inset  etc ?

 

Anyone actually have a shelf in the same side of a cupboard as the tank and cut around it or in front of it ?

 

In fact if anyone has a photo of an installed quooker in a kitchen cabinet it would be helpful. Looking to work out best positioning for tank, and socket etc

[Thorfun]

We had plenty of space under our sink to install it without cutting holes in the base! And we have the cube installed there as well. Have you got a particularly deep sink or something?

[G and J]

55 minutes ago, Thorfun said:

We had plenty of space under our sink to install it without cutting holes in the base! And we have the cube installed there as well. Have you got a particularly deep sink or something?

We're just about to fit the same quooker as above (pro 3) but looking to try and get drawer below, anyone "been there done it" ?

[Thorfun]

57 minutes ago, G and J said:

We're just about to fit the same quooker as above (pro 3) but looking to try and get drawer below, anyone "been there done it" ?

I fail to see how a drawer will fit. It would have to be a shallow drawer to allow the Pro3 to fit behind? And then accessing the unit could be a faff maybe? We just have a wide double door cupboard that has no shelves to give space for all the plumbing and Quooker units. It does all take up quite a lot of space. 
 

sadly I don’t have a photo to hand. 

[Conor]

Yes, I had to cut out a section of our cabinet base as we have a massive sink, water filter and waste disposal unit, just no room for the tank. Looks a right mess but there nothing else in there so door is rarely opened.

[Spinny]

No havn't got an especially deep sink, just wanting to maximise the remaining cupboard space because IMO you can never have enough cupboard space.

 

Kitchen company have now said there is a metal shelf to be installed which they normally cut to fit around the quooker tap.

 

We are having a boiling water only tap, and have been supplied the pro 3 tank and the quooker descaler. However we also have a whole house water softener and have both mains cold hard water pipe and softened cold water pipe available at the sink unit. Should we use the quooker descaler and connect to cold hard mains ? Or connect to softened cold and try to get money back on the descaler ? It does seem as though the descaler does not add sodium to the water, so maybe we should do the former just for lower sodium ? How exactly does a descaler work then compared with an ion exchange salt water softener ?

 

What have you all done and why ?

 

 

 

[joth]

1 hour ago, Spinny said:

What have you all done and why ?

 

I connected mine from softened water, because that's how @Jeremy Harris did his. (His reasons were to avoid cost of another descaler ,and it makes a better cup of tea,  IIRC)

After 5 years I've not had any issues with it. Ours is a combi tank so the main kitchen tap is all softened, and we have a dedicated hard water spigot next to it, mostly used for cold drinking water

 

We're in a fairly hard water area - borderline for being within the safe guidelines for drinking the softened water. If I have four mugs of tea (1L water) it's about the same as one bag of crisps.

 

If someone has a medically prescribed low-sodium diet then they should avoid it still.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by joth