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But the question is, why are these tanks open to things dropping in them. Why aren't they sealed?
drinking from the bathroom tap?
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Most are that I've ever seen, sometimes a lid gets shifted so it doesn't fully cover the tank or it gets lost though. I know the one in my parents house has a lid on it.
Mine now has a large plank of wood over the top of it. Still, the tank has a fair amount of dirt in it anyway.
There are quite a few houses that have their cold water upstairs taken from the tank, and it is something you do not want to be drinking from if you can help it.
The quick and easy way to tell if yours is tank fed or not is to simply try and hold the end of the tap and see if you can hold back the pressure.
Tank Fed you will stop the flow with your hand
Mains will usually spray out all over the bathroom and you
If you see whats in half the tanks i look at in a loft you would think twice about even cleaning your teeth, never mind drinking it
The quick and easy way to tell if yours is tank fed or not is to simply try and hold the end of the tap and see if you can hold back the pressure.
Tank Fed you will stop the flow with your hand
Mains will usually spray out all over the bathroom and you
If you see whats in half the tanks i look at in a loft you would think twice about even cleaning your teeth, never mind drinking it
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Unless you live in Uganda, or Ipswich, it'll be exactly the same and completely fine.
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When drinking from the bathroom tap? No, not really.
If you mean climbing the NY Times building then yes, very much so but the thread you want is over this way.
I'm absolutely stunned as well, I'm amazed that some people can't accept that there are systems different to what they are used to.
Our house in Harlow had a cold water tank in the loft, the house I lived in in London had a cold water tank in the loft and the house I live in now had a cold water tank in the loft until we ripped out out a few years back and had a combi boiler installed.
So the answer to the original question is - If you have a cold water tank in the loft then you shouldn't drink from the bathroom tap, but if you don't have one then you're OK.
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Im sure water that you wash yourself with is suitable for drinking...
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I'd be very interested to know how it got there, seeing that tanks are usually installed in the roofspace.
Sounds like an urban legend to me.
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Run a hose from the downstairs cold tap to your bedroom. Problem solved.
Tastes funny compared to the mains water
Definately, i used to drink it when i was younger and thought it was lovely...but as i grew up i was told it was not 'pure' and not for drinking.
I think i'll give it another go
The real question is: why have two different system for your water in the first place? 
It's inefficient, clumsy, costly, and - as we have seen from the number of people whose tanks have no lids - unsanitary.
In Australia we just get all our water directly from the mains. Then we either heat it (usually via an "instant heat" gas system; not a boiler) or leave it cold.
So simple!
It's inefficient, clumsy, costly, and - as we have seen from the number of people whose tanks have no lids - unsanitary.In Australia we just get all our water directly from the mains. Then we either heat it (usually via an "instant heat" gas system; not a boiler) or leave it cold.
So simple!