Bathroom tap water drinkable?

Hogzy · 15-01-2009 11:54PM #1

Is it safe to drink tap water from the upstairs bathroom sink? i really couldnt be arsed going downstairs for a drink!

Im in Cork (apparently the best quality water in the country, screw you galway!)

Sabre0001 · 15-01-2009 11:55PM

Never hurt me...

Aodan83 · 15-01-2009 11:55PM

Don't they use the same water supply? Why wouldn't it be safe to drink?

MizzLolly · 15-01-2009 11:55PM

It won't kill you but I wouldn't fancy drinking it.. what with all these feckers pee'ing in the sink. *shudder*

Just go downstairs and get a drink. It'll only take a minute :P

Hogzy · 15-01-2009 11:56PM

Aodan83 wrote: »

Don't they use the same water supply? Why wouldn't it be safe to drink?

Thats what i thought! its a bit taboo tho drinking from the bathroom sink...seeing as i poo right next to the sink!:p

kittensoft1984 · 15-01-2009 11:56PM

doesn't it go through different filters or something?? wouldn't recommend it! :P

robinph · 15-01-2009 11:58PM

As long as your not in Galway then any water coming out of the taps in your house is safe to drink.

Gazza22 · 15-01-2009 11:58PM

Doesn't always have a direct mains feed, most times it comes from a holding tank in the attic which if it isn't a newish house will not be sealed properly - plenty of creepy crawlies

....so if you don't mind spider water drink away! :pac:

Crash · 15-01-2009 11:59PM

Depends on if its running from the mains or from the tank. Mains good, tank could be sitting there for a while.

Hogzy · 16-01-2009 12:00AM

Gazza22 wrote: »

Doesn't always have a direct mains feed, most times it comes from a holding tank in the attic which if it isn't a newish house will not be sealed properly - plenty of creepy crawlies

....so if you don't mind spider water drink away! :pac:

Well its a bit late now:pac:
Wont be drinking it any more, tasted a bit...dead:(

antSionnach · 16-01-2009 12:00AM

I've always been told this was unhealthy but i can testify to being in hospital as a kid and a nurse bringing me a glass - no wait, it was a cup - of water, from the bathroom sink. This, I have to say, confused me greatly. Hmm Interesting story eh.. I'm gonna write that chestnut down.

Cool Mo D · 16-01-2009 12:01AM

Usually your kitchen tap and your bathroom tap DON'T come in the same way. Your kitchen tap is generally the one in your house that comes straight in from the mains, while any of the others could be sitting in a water tank. It's unlikely to do you damage, unless your water tank is manky dirty.

CreepingDeath · 16-01-2009 12:01AM

Hogzy wrote: »

Is it safe to drink tap water from the upstairs bathroom sink? i really couldnt be arsed going downstairs for a drink!

Probably safe, but not as safe as the kitchen tap.
With the exception of the kitchen tap ( which comes direct from the water mains outside ), all other cold water taps are fed from the water tank in the attic.

So the water comes into the house under pressure, right up to the tank in the attic and then is gravity fed down to your tap.

So next time you're up in the attic, have a look at the dust and cobwebs and spiders etc roaming around your attic which could fall into your water tank !

emeraldstar · 16-01-2009 12:02AM

Gazza22 wrote: »

Doesn't always have a direct mains feed, most times it comes from a holding tank in the attic which if it isn't a newish house will not be sealed properly - plenty of creepy crawlies

....so if you don't mind spider water drink away! :pac:

Yeah, and bats. Someone I know went up to their attic one day and there was a dead baby bat in the tank. I certainly wouldn't be drinking bathroom water anyway.

johnnyrotten · 16-01-2009 12:03AM

Take a look into the tank in your attic. Then you will never drink from bathroom tap again!

Kiera · 16-01-2009 12:04AM

I've always been told never to drink it and haven't.
My friend had to change her tank and there were a couple of dead birds in it.

Is this a sneaky way of getting a toilet thread going?

Holsten · 16-01-2009 12:04AM

Bathroom attic tank water tastes better.

Karoma · 16-01-2009 12:04AM

OP: no, but don't let that stop you. Holsten is right.

Hogzy · 16-01-2009 12:05AM

johnnyrotten wrote: »

Take a look into the tank in your attic. Then you will never drink from bathroom tap again!

AFAIK its covered... could be wrong tho! I defo regret it anyways cos i remembered i left my phone downstairs and to get it... So i brought up two bottles of water just in a spider falls on/into the bottle!

Gazza22 · 16-01-2009 12:05AM

emeraldstar wrote: »

Yeah, and bats. Someone I know went up to their attic one day and there was a dead baby bat in the tank. I certainly wouldn't be drinking bathroom water anyway.

There was a dead rat in my grandmother's tank years ago, she got really ill from it!

Hogzy wrote: »

Essence of spider, MHOM MHOM

Hogzy · 16-01-2009 12:07AM

Kiera wrote: »

Is this a sneaky way of getting a toilet thread going?

Knabbed!!!!!!:p

Hard Larry · 16-01-2009 12:15AM

The old taboo with Bathroom tap water was because the old tanks were made from copper and in some cases (I think) lead. This would lead to poisoning if you drank from it regularly.

most new house would have a plastic tank so would be ok to drink from...with the exception of a few dead bugs, but apartantly the average human swallows on average 3 live bugs a year while we sleep.

BaconZombie · 16-01-2009 12:15AM

Beer > Water

bronte · 16-01-2009 12:15AM

A guy in school with me found a bunch of eels living in his upstairs water tank once. Ick!

deadhead13 · 16-01-2009 12:16AM

Recently had old metal watertank changed to a pvc one. If you saw the sludge at the bottom of the old tank - you definitely wouldn't drink the water.

ahmed89 · 16-01-2009 12:19AM

bathroom water comes from a stored water in the tank(witch could be really old),not from the mains as kitchen water,so big noooooo

Myxomatosis · 16-01-2009 12:29AM

You'll wash yourself with stagnate tank water but you won't drink it.

Hypocrites.:pac:

Honey-ec · 16-01-2009 12:29AM

bronte wrote: »

A guy in school with me found a bunch of eels living in his upstairs water tank once. Ick!

Sure he did. Magic eels that survived the water treatment plant, squeezed themselves through the myriad filters between the plant and the mains and then swam up the pipe (complete with more filters) from the mains to his tank.

antodeco · 16-01-2009 12:29AM

Cup the water in your hands as you flush. Heavily filtered water in your jax!

CreepingDeath · 16-01-2009 12:32AM

Honey-ec wrote: »

Sure he did. Magic eels that survived the water treatment plant, squeezed themselves through the myriad filters between the plant and the mains and then swam up the pipe (complete with more filters) from the mains to his tank.

You're forgetting the strong culchie presence on boards.
They might have their own water well and a flood could've polluted it.

bronte · 16-01-2009 12:34AM

Honey-ec wrote: »

Sure he did. Magic eels that survived the water treatment plant, squeezed themselves through the myriad filters between the plant and the mains and then swam up the pipe (complete with more filters) from the mains to his tank.

He possibly was having us on

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