Quooker solenoid replacement (2025 Update)

Same unit shown in the video where all the user required was the heating element.

Annoyingly it looks like the tap switch might be faulty too. Flow won?t turn off.

The tap has an LED built into it and the switch requires a double press to release boiling water. The LED is working but water flows continuously. Not sure if the fault is in the tap switch or in the control module twixt tap switch and solenoid (which definitely is working).

Any thoughts/suggestions gratefully received.

Tim

No doubt the double-tap is a safety feature, so I'd have though that opening the solenoid proved that the switch was neither permanently open or closed?

The solenoid is closed in the absence of power so the switch must be powering it. I?m guessing that the control gubbins is in the Quooker that detects the double press and then opens the solenoid.

Given that it?s *not* requiring a double press now I think it?s pretty much got to be the control gubbins rather than the switch. Does this sound reasonable?

Tim

It sounds likely, but it shows the supposed fail-safe has managed to fail-dangerous ...

Buy a £15 kettle from Tesco?

My daughter has one of these boiling water taps, not a Quooker though. Since she had it installed I have taken up drinking coffee in her house, it seems incapable of heating the water to a sufficient temperature to make a good tea infusion.

Is its vessel pressurised like a Quooker?

They claim to be the only one that delivers true boiling water at 100°C, presumably some critical part is patented?

Presumably if it's under pressure it'll be at more than 100C anyway.

Yes, so when you operate the tap the pressure drops to atmospheric and the 'ejected' water cools to boiling point.

Well, it didn't really. It failed in a way that didn't leave it spontaneously discharging boiling water. It was only when the solenoid was replaced that it "turned itself on and wouldn't turn off". This was only discharging cold water.

I think water got into the solenoid I(there were some rust marks) and when it blew, it took out the control relay (or the relay's control circuitry) leaving it in an "on" state but now the solenoid was open circuit so no water would flow.

New control board arrived today (ordered yesterday), fitted and all working fine.

Tim

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Hello, where you get the control board from. I’ve replaced the solenoid and the element internals and the tap continues to flow. I’m guessing something in the red lid has failed as well?

Quooker.

Tim

Are these products safe? I looked once and decided they did not pass my 'risk assessment' as a guest or inattentive householder could put their hand under the tap and risk scalding.

Hmm. We in the 5th. year of using ours. Youngest Grandchild just 7 with no incidents so far. From purchasing spares I realise there are many versions available. The

Possibly not a good safety device if you get pissed occasionally :)

Hello, what part did you actually order?

I'm a seriously boring old fart! The only time I was noticeably drunk, I fell off my bicycle on the way home. Age 17 after accepting a challenge to drink a pint of scrumpy at my friend's father's pub. To this day, I believe he topped it up with something from an optic!

No idea, it was 6 years ago! The part I ordered is unlikely to be the same part as used in newer Quookers. Just ask Quooker.

Tim

The water is boiling under pressure until 110 C⁰