Tap water

Some of you guys are so lucky, I'm in South East London and our tap water is absolutely foul. Unfiltered it makes vile chemical tea. Sometimes when we run a bath our house smells like a swimming pool due to the chlorine (?) they put in it.

Cold water in bathrooms should be tank fed and as things can and do happen to stored water I wont even use it to rinse my mouth after cleaning teeth, use hot instead as its mains via boiler.
 
eddie_slovik said:
Some of you guys are so lucky, I'm in South East London and our tap water is absolutely foul. Unfiltered it makes vile chemical tea. Sometimes when we run a bath our house smells like a swimming pool due to the chlorine (?) they put in it.

Cold water in bathrooms should be tank fed and as things can and do happen to stored water I wont even use it to rinse my mouth after cleaning teeth, use hot instead as its mains via boiler.
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All water is treated so an extent.

We have top quality soft water, because we up north have hills and lush green peat to filter our water that goes into nice clean reservoir, you guys in London uggh, I think most of it is from underwater wells/sources then its treated with chemicals. Only thing is my water is more acidic and can corrode lead pipes and thats not good over a long period of time.
 
The cold tap you brush your teeth with (ie at the bathroom sink) is straight from the mains just like the kichen tap. However the cold tap on the bath is fed from the loft tank and could be contaminated with insects/mice/rat urine or have dead sparrows floating in it. You should never drink that ;)
 
Ive spoke to a few people from other countries who have said that British tap water is the best water in the world lol I just googled it and found this.

British tap water is top with tourists

As to the question about Kitchen or Bathroom, i really cant tell the difference. I dont know how people can say its colder. If you leave the tap running for about 5-10 seconds, they both get as cold as each other.
 
Why would anyone have a cold water tank anyway, i was under the impression all cold taps are plumbed directly to the mains water?

I can't taste any difference between my kitchen or bathroom cold water, in my student house or back home.
 
Ripper said:
YES. I don't know what it is, always seems colder and fresher from the bathroom tap.
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same at my house and in the summer the bathroom tap doesnt need running for aslong to get rid of the luke warm water in the pipes so i guess it travels along less pipes.
 
It probably seems that way because in the bathroom, you drink straight from the tap (when cleaning teeth or whatever), but from the kitchen, you drink from a glass so it has time to warm slightly.

Personally, I think kitchen tap water tastes better. It's used more often so there's less chance of anything dirty building up in there.
 
Ripper said:
YES. I don't know what it is, always seems colder and fresher from the bathroom tap.
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Same in our house.


Not sure if it's cos we have a joint tap or what ever you wanna call it in the kitchen and the bathroom ones are sperate.


But all tap water is awesome in my opinion. :)
 
ShakenNstirred said:
your upstairs cold water doesn't come from the the tank in the loft at all
it come from the same feed as the kitchen cold water and is at mains pressure.
the tank in the loft only feeds your water heater and then on to your bathroom and kitchen hot taps by mavity feed.
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Depends on your house actually. In my house both kitchen and bathroom are fed from the same rising main.
In my mother's house, there is an indirect system which feeds from a storage tank in the loft. Which is full of crap. Which is why I generally don't drink from bathroom taps.
 
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