cold water

[HANDBY]

Me & my hubby are having a debate about drinking cold water from the taps. He says you shouldn't drink it from upstairs as it comes from the tank, whereas downstairs comes from the ground. I disagree, I drink it from upstairs. Can anyone put us right please. Jane

[Jugglering]

In some houses the upstairs cold taps are not run off the mains water supply, but off the tank in the roof.... so the cold water is not that fresh.... In my house, I got rid of the water tank when I had a combi boiler put in and all of my cold water taps are straight off the mains, so they are fresh water supplies.

[HANDBY]

Thanks for your answer, does this mean I shouldn't drink the water from upstairs tap

[josie48]

Its ok to drink the upstairs water if you have a combi boiler HANDBY. If you have the old open tank it could be dangerous. Birds and even rats can get in there.

[HANDBY]

Thanks Josie, will make sure I dont drink it again, will have to save up for a combi

[Buenchico]

Here's a simple test:

Turn off the main stopc0ck (which is probably under the kitchen sink). Check that there's no water coming from the cold tap in the kitchen.

Now go upstairs and try a cold tap. If there's water coming from it, it must be fed from a header tank (so hubby can look smug). If, as is probably more likely, there's no water from the upstairs tap, then it's fed directly from the mains and you can make hubby look small.

Chris

[Jugglering]

Handby... it depends on what the water supply to your upstairs taps is like .... if the supply is straight off the mains, then no problem, it is a clean supply but if your cold water feeds into an uncovered tank in the roof, then there could be anything getting into it... Even a covered tank might be storing stale water, but we don't know what your situation is !

[perigra]

i don't have a combi boiler but i know for a fact that my upstairs cold taps are from the mains.

u should never drink water from the cold storage tank as it's likely to be infested with bacteria from sources like pigeon sh1te, dead insects etc

[HANDBY]

Hubby looking SMUG, he been in loft today!

[josie48]

And? Im all ears HANDBY:-))

[HANDBY]

Josie, he thinks he will be getting some sexual favour for being right ;)