Insinkerator steamin hot dispensers.

[petek]

I found a NIB model H770 for $25 the other day at Habitat. We had one in our first Calgary house which I installed and liked however we moved a couple of years later. I was just looking this one up and I see it gets a lot of bad reviews about leaking after a few years etc.. I don't know whether to bother because it'll mean fishing some power over from the dishwasher in the next cabinet. Unless the dishwasher is plugged in. I can't remember for the life of me but would make it a lot simpler.

Anyone had troubles with theirs?

 

[rp2813]

We installed one at our other house when we remodeled the kitchen in 1990.  It saw a lot of use.  I miss it.

 

The tank developed a leak after about ten years.  I bought an identical Emerson model, bent the copper tubing the same way, and snapped it right in.  That one was still trouble free when we sold the house several years later.

 

Perhaps current models have been cheapened and are receiving bad reviews.

 

Ours was the type with one quart tank (or was it two?) and the large knob that could be twisted in either direction for hot water.  I have no experience with the lesser small capacity models that have the goose neck spout.

 

[philcobendixduo]

Hot Water Dispenser

I've had an instant hot water dispenser at my kitchen sink since 1989 and find it VERY handy for instant coffee, tea, cooking, etc. I think I'm on my 3rd or 4th dispenser now (all Insinkerator or Emerson) (the larger capacity one with the twist-knob spout). They WILL leak (like all water heaters) after a number of years, but thankfully, only when the dispenser knob is twisted to dispense the water so it won't flood the kitchen. Also, my current dispenser spits and sputters as it dispenses the water for some reason (no - it's not set too hot). AND it is noisy when heating - I can hear it in the bathroom that is above my kitchen as it cycles on and off. STILL they ARE handy to have despite all the "issues"!

 

[rp2813]

Bill, I think it's our hard water around here that makes all types of water heaters noisy after a while.

 

I can't say what's causing the spitting and sputtering though.  Ours only did that when it was set too hot.

 

[maytagbear]

Since I rent,

and have already put enough money into improvements, like paying for laundry hookups, and a new shower rod and curtain, I work around the hot faucet with a Zojirushi water boiler/dispenser pot. I descale it regularly, and more often when I forget to drain it overnight, and leave it full and plugged in. I agree about having an instant source of Very Hot water.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[deeptub]

I have an H770. After a couple years, it would sputter when I'd dispense water. If I'd let go of the knob and re-turn it, it would dispense normally. A few months later it started sputtering no matter what, and I found things in the cabinet had wet bottoms--it was leaking, but by no means a flood. I took the housing off and discovered some internal vinyl tubing that had hardened and cracked. I replaced the tubing which fixed the leak and the sputter. So I'd say, if you install yours, let sputtering be your guide that Something's Up.

 

[petek]

I think all this is giving me second thoughts. Even the remote thought of something that might leak is going to have me forever checking it where years ago it didn't even register.