Quooker...is 110 degree water really ok?

[windyboy]

G3: ‘A hot water system that has a hot water storage vessel shall incorporate precautions to: (a) prevent the temperature of the water stored in the vessel at any time exceeding 100˚C’

Quooker: ‘The water is heated to 110˚C in the Quooker tank…When the water flows out of the boiling-water tap, the water cools from 110˚C to 100˚C and boils.

I like the idea of water cooling to boiling point. But seriously, am I missing something or do Quooker just ignore the Building Regs? (and the Water Regs.)

 

[snowhead]

G3: ‘A hot water system that has a hot water storage vessel shall incorporate precautions

Quooker, presumably, isn't a system it's a single outlet.
They've been in the U.K for over 10 years and Holland for 15 before that.
I would have thought someone would have brought up the issue, if there was one, before now.

 

[windyboy]

Maybe, but I'm not sure that the fact that there's only one tap stops it being a hot water system.

 

[rpm]

Doesn't come under G3 as there isn't a tank ?

 

[windyboy]

Why not?

 

[rpm]

Why not?

Not a storage system. ?

 

[windyboy]

3 litres of water at 110 degrees C (or 7 litres if you buy the big one). Surely that's a hot water storage system?

 

[Sharp Point]

Not a storage system. ?

 

[rpm]

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Thanks for that and I take it back. Thought it was a instant flow through which seems daft now tbh.

 

[windyboy]

Not daft at all. I was talking to a guy who owns one today and asking him how it worked. He said that the Quooker guy told him that the tank was full of superheated steam and that cold water flowed through the steam and turned into boiling water. Scary stuff.