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cold water
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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
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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.
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
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
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 !
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