Drinking tap water...

[klr15]

I was always told not to drink from the hot water tap upstairs or down, but I wasn’t told not to drink from the cold tap upstairs.

[Gryff]

I was brought up on a small holding we had one tap that drinking / cooking water came from it was an underground spring the water man came every other week to check the water
The other water came through a huge holding tank heated god knows how because the huge aga in the kitchen was used for cooking central heating etc we also,had an old fashioned range that mum used a lot I remember the kettle always being on the range
Even in summer if the aga was off if it was off bath water was heated in the wash hoose copper,
We always had hot water

[Perthite]

The only time I’ve looked into a cold water tank there were dead mice in it. So drink from the mains tap!

[Wazza]

Drunk cold water from the bathroom tap since I was a kid. Now at the of 52 it doesn’t appear to have done me any harm

[ncmurray]

Omg... Im so glad I didnt drink from the bathroom tap when I was a kid, as Im pretty sure we had a water tank in the attic. It never occurred to me that rodents could make their way into it!

Our current house was built in 2000, and Im sure there is no holding tank in the attic, just a hot water tank in the airing cupboard on the first floor.

Thank you for all your input... its been enlightening

[lizzie145]

Yet we brush our teeth with cold water from the bathroom! And wash our hands

[Blue nose]

Originally Posted by sam7

To check, turn your water off at the mains (stop tap) and run the cold. If it continues its mains fed (as it should be) and safe to drink.

This is the wrong way round. Turn your stop cock off, if you cold water carryings on flowing its from a tank. Your stop cock is stopping mains fed water coming into your house.

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Updated my post. I wasn't concentrating

[Blue nose]

Originally Posted by ncmurray

Omg... Im so glad I didnt drink from the bathroom tap when I was a kid, as Im pretty sure we had a water tank in the attic. It never occurred to me that rodents could make their way into it!

Our current house was built in 2000, and Im sure there is no holding tank in the attic, just a hot water tank in the airing cupboard on the first floor.

Thank you for all your input... its been enlightening

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If you have a hot tank in airing cupboard you'll likely have a tank in the loft to fill it. It's how that hot water system works. That's why you don't drink from the hot tap.

Houses don't have storage for the cold water taps.

[levtweeney]

We used to call it council pop hahaha

I drank water from the kitchen only and now I know why 🤢

[Lilminx]

As a kid i always used to drink from the bathroom tap especially at night... I thought that water tasted nicer.. wasn't until many many years later I realised it all came from the tank in the loft. Im fighting fit at 36 so harm done