I've never used a Quick and hot, but I can tell you that I have an ISE and love it. It makes decent tea by the cup (which is what we do 90% of the time), and better if you use a pot and warm it with a splash of hot water first. The ISE tank is SS lined; is the Q&H?

Q&H is stainless as well. It's the same unit as EverHot and several others.

If the 200-degree hot water works a lot better for tea, then ISE it is. But it looks like only ISE faucets work with ISE instant hot tanks? I'd like the Little Gourmet MT650 faucet if it will work..

Here is a link that might be useful: Little Gourmet MT650

The faucets have to stay with their own tanks: Three vs two hoses, I believe someone said on this forum.

I like the styling of the Little Gourmet (I put one in the old house and one in the new house) so I went with that. Both are good units.

My other concern is how to hook up for the cold lever to be chilled water instead of ambient.. the ISE instructions don't make it clear how to do this. Also, ISE says its max temp is 210, while Q&H says its max temp is 190. I *think* I see how to do it, but will need to call ISE tech support to be sure.

Perel, you would need to buy a separate chiller if you want the cold water to be chilled.

The ISE View, 1100, and 2215 country are all very similar in appearance to the MT650. Worth looking at if you haven't already.

Here is a link that might be useful: ISE faucets

Perel,

Do not connect a chilled water line to the ambient water line. You could end up with a mess!

I tried this arrangement. The inlet water hose burst. Twice. I called the faucet manufacturer (Waterstone). It turns out that chillers can create high pressure in the hose. The hot water side is vented to relieve any pressure that builds up in the tank. (You'll notice that the insta-hot faucets drip.)

If you want chilled water, you will need a faucet similar to the insta-hot faucet. FWIW, I installed two faucets at the bar sink. One faucet has a single handle -- HOT. The second faucet has two handles -- ambient and COLD. No burst hoses.

mooring_girl - Thanks for the warning!

I know that I will need a separate chiller; I was planning on the ProSelect unless there's a strong reason to spend the extra for an EverCold.

alku05 - Thanks, I think the 1100 series ISE will give the same look.

From the installation instructions, it looks like the ISE 1100 has two separate water supply lines - one is the ambient supply for the hot side, the other is the supply for the cold lever. The install instructions have you putting a Y-connector to hook both those lines to ambient in; I'll see what ISE tech support has to say about hooking them up separately.

Or maybe I should just use two separate holes.. I was trying to minimize holes in the deck. So far I have:

- Faucet (at least one hole, possibly more)
- Sprayer (if I end up with a pull-up type.. hopefully not but we'll see)
- airgap
- Potfiller for filtered ambient water (planning to use a pitcher/glass filler.. the undersink water filter I'm putting in can deliver approx. 2.5GPM, so it's worth having a full faucet for the filtered water.)
- instant hot
- now, possibly a separate instant cold

(btw, I just now noticed my typo in the title of the original post!)

I've ordered the Q&H simply because I prefer the look of the Tahoe Series chrome faucet to any other faucets I've seen. I don't want it competing with my main faucet. Wanted something simple and low profile. Hopefully it was a good choice. Will let you know. Should be coming in mail any day now.

Perel, I have had a Mountain Plumbing "Little Gourmet" Instant Hot and Cold water dispenser with both the water heater and chiller installed for almost 3 years. The faucet has 3 connections under the sink installed per the manufactures instruction as follows:
Connection 1, from water filter split to facet, hot water tank inlet, and chiller tank inlet.
Connection 2, from hot water tank outlet
Connection 3, from chiller tank outlet

I have not had any leaks, but the water chiller stopped working about a year ago, though it is still connected below the sink. The hot water tank is still working, but I had turned the temperature down to about 160 due to the constant faucet drips. Even turning it down, the faucet still drips, but not as much as when set to the higher temps.

I enjoy both the hot water and the chilled water (when it was working) and would definitely recommend getting both in one faucet if possible.

In the post above, connection info should be as follows:

Connection 1, from water filter split to faucet and chiller
Connection 2, from faucet to water heater
Connection 3, from water heater to faucet
Connection 4, from chiller to faucet

well, q and h came today - faucet looks great but it's not stainless rather i think just chrome covered plastic, not sure what to do now!

Mooring girl,
I'm not sure regarding your post about not connecting the chilled water line to the ambient water line....
I purchased a rohl filter faucet (a1635) and am planning to hook up both a water filter and chiller to it.

Are you saying I am at risk of having a leak?

I was told by ROHL that this faucet would work with a chiller.