Would you drink water from the hot water tap?

[teuchter]

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

The molten lead would block up all your pipes and it would be a difficult situation to explain to the plumber.

 

[pogofish]

Our pipes and water main are still lead

Oh dear.

Run the water for a few minutes before using then - The main danger was from water that had been sitting in the pipes.

TBH, kids are the most at risk. Do you have any?

IIRC, there used to be grants for replacing them but they may have dried-up years ago.

 

[quimcunx]

The molten lead would block up all your pipes and it would be a difficult situation to explain to the plumber.

You appear to have missed my award winning tenty water catchy distilly thingie idea.


And how would the plumber ever know if the pipes are made of lead anyway?

 

[free spirit]

Oh dear.

Run the water for a few minutes before using then - The main danger was from water that had been sitting in the pipes.

TBH, kids are the most at risk. Do you have any?

IIRC, there used to be grants for replacing them but they may have dried-up years ago.

think the first bit of the water main coming in off the street is lead at our place... rest of it's copper. Pretty sure the actual water main itself is still lead on the street though as I can't remember them ever digging the road up to replace it, so not much point worrying about the few meters of pipe I coud actually pull out without needing to dig up the entire garden / road.

 

[danny la rouge]

think the first bit of the water main coming in off the street is lead at our place

Is it on your property, or could you argue it's the water board's responsibility?

 

[moose]

Oh dear.

Run the water for a few minutes before using then - The main danger was from water that had been sitting in the pipes.

TBH, kids are the most at risk. Do you have any?

IIRC, there used to be grants for replacing them but they may have dried-up years ago.

No kids, thank goodness (not just for watery reasons )
We are having it replaced this year, and the council are paying about 2% of the cost.

 

[WouldBe]

You appear to have missed my award winning tenty water catchy distilly thingie idea.

But how would you instal a 'tenty water catchy distilly thingie' in a tap?

And how would the plumber ever know if the pipes are made of lead anyway?

Lead is soft and silvery. Copper is hard and coppery.

 

[quimcunx]

But how would you instal a 'tenty water catchy distilly thingie' in a tap?




Lead is soft and silvery. Copper is hard and coppery.

Please afford my posts the respect they deserve and read them properly!

I wouldn't be molting the lead and lead contaminated water in the pipes but a tub. The tenty water catchy thing would go above this, or wherever the instructions advise.

I meant how would teuchter's imaginary plumber know I'd been pouring molten lead (not that I said I would be, he just made an ass of u and me) if the pipes were already made of lead.

 

[WouldBe]

I wouldn't be molting the lead and lead contaminated water in the pipes but a tub. The tenty water catchy thing would go above this, or wherever the instructions advise.

But the thread is about drinking water from a hot tap not a tenty distilly thngie.

I meant how would teuchter's imaginary plumber know I'd been pouring molten lead (not that I said I would be, he just made an ass of u and me) if the pipes were already made of lead.

Cos he said the pipes would be blocked meaning they were solid bars of lead instead of hollow tubes.

 

[quimcunx]

But the thread is about drinking water from a hot tap not a tenty distilly thngie.



Cos he said the pipes would be blocked meaning they were solid bars of lead instead of hollow tubes.

To be honest, wouldbe, I'm not sure you should post on the more scientific aspects of a thread. You clearly have little understanding of the subject and are standing in the way of molten lead tenty water catchy technological progress.


No offence. Different people are better at different things.
I expect you know lots about kittens.

 

[teuchter]

I wouldn't be molting the lead and lead contaminated water in the pipes but a tub.

Can you please specify what the tub would be made from.

 

[quimcunx]

Can you please specify what the tub would be made from.

I have a few chinese takeaway tubs that aren't fulfilling their potential at the moment.

 

[pogofish]

think the first bit of the water main coming in off the street is lead at our place... rest of it's copper. Pretty sure the actual water main itself is still lead on the street though as I can't remember them ever digging the road up to replace it,

Water mains were usually cast Irion IIRC. (Modern pipes can be concrete or a form of nylon) Lead was used from the stopcock into the house because of its cheapness & flexibility.

Yes, I was in the same position - My Gran's replumbing had to leave a short segment of leaded pipe between the front door & the road because she couldn't afford to dig-up the front doorstep but in that case it was the less lead the better & she got into the habit of running the water a bit first thing.

When I took over the house, that was one of the first things I had attended to, not just because of the health risks, lead pipes also become brittle eventually & with the traffic rumbling past, it would only have neen a matter of time before they shattered. Which was what finally happened to my hot water pipes just last year - Cost several thousand to sort out.

 

[teuchter]

I have a few chinese takeaway tubs that aren't fulfilling their potential at the moment.

That sounds perfect. Please post pictures of your prototype in action as soon as it is built.

 

[kittyP]

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.

I read that but I am not dead actually not even that ill considering my stress levels, smoking and other imbibements.

A generation or so had lead paint or their cots and very few of them got ill due to it over all.

Tsk

 

[Greebo]

No tank here, no lead pipes, and the water is so hard here that IMHO lead from piping would be v unlikely to leech into water. So, yes, I drink from the hot tap if I want a warm (but not hot) drink here, but wouldn't do it everywhere.

 

[teuchter]

I read that but I am not dead actually not even that ill considering my stress levels, smoking and other imbibements.

A generation or so had lead paint or their cots and very few of them got ill due to it over all.

Tsk

The medical profession disagrees with you.

The fact that you are not dead yet means nothing at all.

• Because children may be exposed to potentially adverse levels of lead without exhibiting clinical symptoms, it is vital that primary care providers adopt a preventive approach to determine which of their patients may be at risk.
• While important for monitoring the effects of lead exposure and, in some cases, for identifying the symptoms of lead poisoning, the physical examination alone will not always reveal when a patient is at risk from elevated lead exposure.
• The first signs of lead poisoning in children are often subtle neurobehavioral problems that adversely affect classroom behavior and social interaction.
• Developmental, speech, and hearing impairments are not uncommon in lead-exposed children (ATSDR 2005).
• Most persons with lead toxicity are not overtly symptomatic.
• Some of the health effects of lead exposure on the various organ systems (see “Physiological Effects” section) are permanent or latent and may appear after exposure has ceased.

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/lead/pbphysiologic_effects2.html

In 1978, approximately 14.8 million children in the United States suffered from lead poisoning. By the early 1990s, that number had declined to 890,000 children, according to CDC statistics.

Today, many children remain at risk for lead poisoning due primarily to deteriorated lead paint in older housing as well as house dust, drinking water and soil contaminated by lead paint. Although a 1978 ban prohibits the use of lead in new paint, children who live in older housing are still at risk, with low-income and minority children experiencing the greatest risk. For example, the CDC estimates that 16 percent of children living in older housing are poisoned, compared to 4.4 percent of all children.
Reducing lead exposure not only benefits children's health and development but also yields economic benefits from avoiding health care and special education costs, from preventing reductions in children's intelligence, academic achievement and future productivity, and from improvements to housing associated with controlling lead hazards.

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/lead.html

 

[Pip]

Some thoughts.

I've got a communal boiler. They fill it up with oil from a massive lorry. What's that all about eh? How does it work? Is it like filling up a car? Where does the pollution go? Where does my water come from?
My flat is 1930s. Are the pipes lead? The water here is very hard, wouldn't they be coated in a protective layer of limescale?
Is a communal boiler dangerous? How often do they blow up? Is it likely they'll ever replace it and give us our own boilers? I hope not.

I'd never drink from the hot tap for danny's dead pigeon reasons.

I know someone who makes tea thusly. Teabag in cup. Water from hot tap. Top up with condensed milk. NOTHING there is right.

 

[Greebo]

I know someone who makes tea thusly. Teabag in cup. Water from hot tap. Top up with condensed milk. NOTHING there is right.

Burn the uncivilised wretch!

How on earth can the tap water be hot enough to infuse tea? Condensed milk in tea - sounds like a damn foreigner's trick to me.

Still, as long as they're not expecting me to drink it