what is the difference between drinking tap water from the bathroom and the kitchen?

Answer 1

Bathroom water often comes from the tank in your loft where there will be dead beasties and maybe even the odd dead mouse in it !

Answer 2

It is a case of the freshness of the water.
In older properties in England, water is generally received into a tank in the loft, rather than direct to the taps.
This was to allow for problems in the pressure of the the supply which could vary according to the time of day.
If lots of people took showers at 7 o'clock in the morning, for instance, on your estate, the pressure available to any individual household could be reduced.
A tank, however, could fill slowly overnight and the pressure would be contantly available to you when you needed it.
The problem however was that the water could equally sit in the tank for some time, if not used, and therefore not be terribly fresh. So the kitchen tap was always connected directly to the mains, to always give fresh water for drinking or cooking.
(It was also known for birds, or worse mice or rats, to get in the tank and die, which didn't make tank water taste too good)
Nowdays, however, the mains water is maintaned with sufficient pressure for all the households supplied. So a tank is not generally installed in modern housesand the problem no longer exists, since all taps are connected direct to the mains.
Incidentally, it was also the case that pipes were often made of lead (hence the word plumbing), up until it became illegal because of the toxic nature of lead.
During a certain period, the mains pipes had been converted to copper or plastic, but many houses still had the older lead pipes internally, which accounts for the practice of some people who run the tap for a while in the kitchen, before filling their glass. This was to allow the first water, which had been sitting in the lead pipe, to run off, before they filled their glass from the uncontaminated water which had been in the mains pipes. (it was also generally a bit cooler on summer days)

Answer 3

In most houses built since 1960 the cold water taps in bathrooms and toilets are fed from the cistern in the loft. That way the water pressures in hot and cold taps are equal. This is important for easy use of gravity-fed showers and safe mixing of bath water.

Downstairs there will be at least one cold water tap (normally at the kitchen sink) is always fed directly from the incoming main. Hence the pressure is noticably higher.

It is a legal requirement that at least one tap is fed from the main supply directly. This also must not have any in-line filter installed. Other downstairs taps may be fed from the loft tank and there may also be an in-line filter present which will deprive the water of its 'sparkle'.

The water that has been stored in the loft tank may be 'stale', it may also have had dead insects, rust and other unpleasant things in it. That's why you should also never make drinks or cook with water from the hot tap.

Note that UK tap water is almost always more hygenic, has fewer minerals and is more and microbe free than most bottled waters, and about 500x cheaper too.

Answer 4

The water from the kitchen comes direct from the rising main and is clean. water from the bathroom has originally come from the rising main but has been stored in a tank ( in my house it is in the **** loft that is between the ceiling and the rafters) duuring the time it has ben their it may well have been polluted by a number of things and is demed unclean. Remedy if you are going to drink water from there boil it first.

If in a hotel bedroom with tea making facilities and you want water either but a bottle or boil it and wait for it to cool down (it will not taste very nice for some reason)

Answer 5

Location

Answer 6

Well in the case of old properties the water in your bathroom normally comes from the tank stored in your loft. And your kitchen the cold water is drawn from the mains.

Whereas newer property has the cold water coming straight off of the mains in the bathroom and kitchen.

So unless you know where the cold water in your bathroom comes from to be on the safe side do not drink it or might swallow a fly a mouse etc any manner of things that can fall into a cold water tank.

Lovely thought.

Seriously though you ought to be more concerned that your pipe work is copper and not old lead pipes as that is dangerous and which can give you lead poisoning.

Answer 7

If they are both mains fed no differance,Some properties have a cold water tank in the loft so the only drinking water is from the kitchen tap.

Answer 8

the difference is the water from your bathroom generally comes from a storage tank so has been sat around in your House for a bit and depending on how secure your tank is may have things like birds and mice in it. the kitchen tap comes straight from the water pipes and so is considered cleaner

Answer 9

Kitchen faucet water is a lot greater powerful than bathing room sink faucet because of the fact the washing room is used to sluice each and every sort of issues( bodies inclusive) and there could be own ordoors that could desire to distort the flavor of the water. this is the act of smelling and attempting out this is the topic right here. The kitchen's faucet water could be observed by ability of the scent of sturdy nutrients and to me, this is greater powerful than the ablution room the place there is toiletries and the lot.

Answer 10

If its the cold tap I don't think it makes a difference but if its the warm tap then I think it comes from a different tank. I'm not a plumber so I'm not gonna endorse this theory but why would you drink tap water?! I prefer Volvic bottled.

Answer 11

Cold water from the bathroom will be mains, not tank water, but it may have been standing in pipes for quite a while as the taps are less frequently used.