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Can anyone tellme how bathroom tap water is different to kitchen tap water,it tastes foul and i've heard you're not supposed to drink it.My brother-in-law thinks i'm making it up and that water is all the same.Thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well, up to yet nobody has it right. The water companies will tell you that at least one cold tap should be from your rising main. This is, as has been correctly said, for drinking/brushing only and no other purpose other than not to drink/brush teeth in water from the loft tank.
Houses with combi boilers don't need a loft tank and therefore have all cold taps and toilets fed from the rising main.
Older houses will have cold taps and toilets supplied from either the rising main and/or the loft tank.
Toilets can be fed from either the rising main or the cold tank, there is a different filling valve size for each.
All conventional hot taps are fed from the cold, loft tank via the heating system to the hot taps. That is, apart from combi's which are fed from the rising main through the boiler to the tap.
Sorry Tim I wasn't very clear in my post....by "Electric" showers I mean the ones you stick on the Bathroom wall over the bath and are supplied from the mains cold water with an electric heater which heats the water "on demand"
I should have said that in my shower the hot water is supplied from the hot water cylinder which is fed from the header tank and the cold water to the shower is from the same header then they will both be at the same pressure.
I also suspect you knew all along what I meant <G>