Would you drink water from the hot water tap?

[electrogirl]

I do, and I am still mostly alive. Mostly.

Yeah I do it. Especially when I wake up dying of thirst from drinking the night before. It always feels a bit wrong though.

 

[middle C]

no. i don't drink tap water. period.

 

[dwenfish]

electrogirl
i think the general rule is if the water pressure is quite high then it's from the mains so ok, but even it's from a tank or a fetid puddle it's still fine really

 

[geminisnake]

Hot tap water is hot. Who wants to drink hot water?

Some cold tap water comes from a tank too, remember

The warm water is a better breeding ground for harmful bacteria than the cold.
Plus the materials the tanks are made of can be different stuff/are not chosen to contain something fit for human consumption/ they're not always sealed and can have all sorts of yukness in them.

 

[teuchter]

When I was a kid (and until about five years ago) the water that came out of the taps at my parents' house was brown-coloured (shade depended on how much it had rained recently) and sometimes it even had bits of peat in it. It was very nutritious.

Now it's clear and smells of chlorine.

 

[danny la rouge]

Is the cold water from the tap in the bathroom okay?

Bit of a grey area in my brain.

Well, look at it this way: how else would you brush your teeth?

 

[electrogirl]

Well, look at it this way: how else would you brush your teeth?

good thinking. I brush my teeth in the shower alot though.

 

[danny la rouge]

good thinking. I brush my teeth in the shower alot though.

There's hot in there, though!

Dead pigeons!

 

[Dillinger4]

good thinking. I brush my teeth in the shower alot though.

I do that. And then pat myself on the back for being efficient with time.

I might put it on my CV.

 

[pogofish]

Wish I'd taken a photo of the inside of my hot water tank when it was replaced last year - Mountains of mank!

 

[pogofish]

Did your one not get many replies?

I've never started one but they all follow the same general pattern.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

no. i don't drink tap water. period.

Why not?

I used to drink water out of toilet cisterns at grotty raves in the olden days when they never had enough water to go round. I don't think I do that now though. Makes me shudder to think of it to be honest

 

[liberty]

Not by choice but I think it all depends if the water is kept in a tank before heating

 

[electrogirl]

There's hot in there, though!

Dead pigeons!

I think you are obsessed with dead pigeons.

I do that. And then pat myself on the back for being efficient with time.

I might put it on my CV.

It just makes so much sense. SO much sense.

 

[kittyP]

I occasionally fill the kettle with water from the hot tap so it boils quicker with the reasoning that boiling it will purify it but I would never drink it normally.

 

[electrogirl]

I occasionally fill the kettle with water from the hot tap so it boils quicker with the reasoning that boiling it will purify it but I would never drink it normally.

I do that all the time. There is loads of shit in the bottom of the kettle that I choose to ignore aswell. It looks ming and scary and something I'd rather not know about.

 

[kittyP]

Is the cold water from the tap in the bathroom okay?

Bit of a grey area in my brain.

It depends.

I don't here (other than to rinse my mouth) as it comes from a tank but my dad plumbed their bathroom cold water in to the mains so its ok.

 

[Geri]

I have a combi boiler so it all comes from the same place. I had to use the hot tap when the basin tap stopped working in my bathroom though. It doesn't come out hot straight away though so it was OK.

 

[pogofish]

Also remember that for cost reasons, a lot of older properties only had the rising main to kitchen/drinking tap de-leaded, after, the header tank/hot side being left with lead pipes - Which is why I've spent a fortune on plumbing in the last year. My Gran simply could not afford the whole house when she had the pipes done

So unless the place is fairly new or you know the history of the plumbing, I'd suggest using some common sense.

 

[remedial_gash]

I happily fill the kettle from the hot tap, and drink from the cold tap in the bog (which is from an open tank in the loft). I'm not dead yet, and can't help but feel that all these people getting allergies and whatnot is a direct result of living a 'pure' existence.

Gash
x

 

[danny la rouge]

I happily fill the kettle from the hot tap

Ooh, you dare devil!

 

[electrogirl]

I happily fill the kettle from the hot tap, and drink from the cold tap in the bog (which is from an open tank in the loft). I'm not dead yet, and can't help but feel that all these people getting allergies and whatnot is a direct result of living a 'pure' existence.

Gash
x

I agree. I eat stuff out of the bin and I'm hardly ever ill.

 

[teuchter]

I occasionally fill the kettle with water from the hot tap so it boils quicker with the reasoning that boiling it will purify it but I would never drink it normally.

Boiling it won't purify it though. It'll only sterilise it. As I said several posts ago.

You can't kill lead by boiling it.

 

[pogofish]

Yup, there is any amount of inorganic crap that boiling will not touch.

 

[quimcunx]

What if you boiled the water in a tub of molten lead?

 

[WouldBe]

What if you boiled the water in a tub of molten lead?

You'd end up with a cloud of non-drinkable steam.

 

[WouldBe]

I'd drink from a mains pressurised hot water system but not from a header tank system.

 

[quimcunx]

You'd end up with a cloud of non-drinkable steam.

What if you set up one of those survival tent water catchy distilly thingies? Would the lead residue in the water not join up with its brethren leaving the steam to collect as pure water?

 

[gentlegreen]

I only have a hot tap in the bathroom and I only fire up the immersion once every couple of weeks for my bath.

I have taken the precaution of putting a sheet of polystyrene over the header tank so I suppose it would be OK.

Fairly pointless though as the thermostat is set to well below boiling ...

 

[moose]

Also remember that for cost reasons, a lot of older properties only had the rising main to kitchen/drinking tap de-leaded, after, the header tank/hot side being left with lead pipes

Our pipes and water main are still lead