drinking from the bathroom tap?

Evangelion said:
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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Not really, there are loads of ways a bird can get into a roofspace, even on modern properties with poor maintenance or construction
 
tap water tastes the same as bottled water and it's just as good for you.
The only time I buy bottled water is if I can't get a cup of tap I have to buy a bottle.

And those brita filters, why? waste of money, makes your water taste a bit funnier.
 
You give builders more credit than there due Evangelion. There's birds in our loft that get in through a gap in the bit under the tile overhang.
 
mattyfez said:
Yet again...cold water does not come from a tank, its from the mains, jeez, google it or ask a plumber if you dont belive me :rolleyes:

Why on earth would one have a cold water tank when its gets piped straight into your house??????

Tanks are for hot water (dont drink from this tap unless you have a new boiler which heats water on the fly and therefore it too is also fresh from the mains )

Close thread.
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In some councils, the building regulation is that the house maintains a cold water resevoir in case of water cut offs (even modern houses), as well as a hot water tank.

So shut up.
 
I don't believe a thread was posted where a guy got owned for being wrong and people here continue to make the same mistakes as him. Classic.
 
AcidHell2 said:
because in older houses you have a cold water storage tank, where anything rat, birds could have died in.
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He speaks the truth. i'm living in Uni halls right now. In a house that was built pre 70s.

We get white contaminate with the tap in the kitchen, but on the first floor, where I am, the water goes cold > hot > cold and cloudy > cold again. We have to run the tap for a minute before the water turns clear.

:p
 
Up until last week our bathroom water came from another source than our drinking water.
We've just had a new bathroom and my mate said we can now drink out of the toilet (when flushed of course).
 
We have the older type back boiler which is fed from a tank in the attic. The central heating is also fed from a smaller tank.

Our shower is mavity fed so uses the cold water from the attic tank.

The sink and bath cold taps come straight from the mains.
 
If something's died in your cold water storage tank, I'd start brushing my teeth in the sink. I think you'd probably know about when you get seriously ill.
 
i have read the thread & i'm saying for where I live & i'm guessing it's the same for others. We have both hot & cold water tanks which are on the mains & the water does taste different only as we have a water softner, appart from that it's the same water, in from mains, into tank then feed into the taps
 
milkinc13 said:
i have read the thread & i'm saying for where I live & i'm guessing it's the same for others. We have both hot & cold water tanks which are on the mains & the water does taste different only as we have a water softner, appart from that it's the same water, in from mains, into tank then feed into the taps
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If you really have read the thread you have done so with your eyes closed.

If you have an indirect water system, where your cold water for the bathroom comes from a storage tank, then your kitchen tap will come straight from the mains and your bathroom tap will come from the storage tank. Storage tanks are usually in the loft, usually open, usually full of crap.
For this reason, it's generally wise not to drink it.

Of course, if you have a system where both feeds come direct from the mains, great! Drink away :D

Is this making sense? It isn't rocket science.
 
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