Do people drink water from the bathroom tap tap

A few decades ago, water other than the kitchen was typically fed by a tank, so water would be sitting around, the tank could have things in it...
Not sure when it changed, but most plumbing now has all taps fed by the mains, so it's not an issue.

It certainly does taste good, but I'm aware that some areas have more hard water than soft. I suppose I meant that I'm happy to drink it straight out of the tap without using a further form of filtration 🤣.

It tastes so good in Yorkshire because it's God's own country apparently. God made the lovely water!

I prefer the water from the en suite tap. It’s colder and very refreshing for one thing.
The water from the kitchen tap always comes out slightly cloudy (which does settle pretty quickly) and it’s just not as cold.
Mid 1950s semi and I have no idea if it has a water tank in the loft. The en suite is about ten years old and the kitchen was moved to what was the back of the garage before I bought it, so at least 15 years ago.
I wouldn’t want water out of the tap in the toilets at work though even if it was going to be boiled. In fact I don’t have hot drinks at all at work because half of the time the washing up sponge is left lying in the kitchen sink.
I fill up my tupperwear water bottle at the cold water dispenser.

I love a glass of cold water from the bathroom sink in the early hours while I sit on the toilet. It tastes so refreshing when my mouth is dry from all the snoring I must do!

Yes, this feeds showers etc.

I do. I actually stick my gob under the bathroom tap and drink when I wake up hungover 🤣. I'm in Yorkshire, so I don't know if that makes a difference because I'm aware we have a decent quality of water.

I probably wouldn't get a jug of water from the bathroom at work though, unless we were I desperate need.

I seem to recall it’s an environmental health issue - in commercial/business/work environments. Due to the risk of faecal contamination. Drinking water should not be taken from bathrooms in those environments and would be picked up theoretically on an environmental health inspection.

From memory, similar rules that you couldn’t have a wc/bathroom opening directly on to a kitchen, there had to be a further door/partitioning between.

In a home domestic setting though - where water is direct feed to a bathroom, I guess, as other say upthread - probably ok.

But you still put it in your mouth, don't you? If it's not clean enough to drink then it's not clean enough to brush your teeth with.

Growing up at always drank upstairs water, my sister swore it tasted better.

Tank was in the top of the airing cupboard in the box room, rather than the attic. When it leaked one time and had to be replaced the water that leaked out didn't look particularly drinkable.

Didn't stop me drinking upstairs water in my current house when it still had a tank in the loft. I don't see much difference between using it to clean my teeth and drinking it.

I don't swallow water when I clean my teeth FGS. 🙄

Yuck! Less about where the water is coming from but taking it into the loos, touching the taps... Food and drink related anything should be nowhere near a blokes / unisex loos!

It does depend on if the bathroom cold water supply is from the rising main, or if it’s fed from a cold water tank. Some older properties have a cold water tank in the loft which feeds bathrooms with only the kitchen cold tap being fed off the rising main.
If you’ve ever seen a cold water tank in an attic, you would never drink any water supplied from it. They are generally open vessels which anything can fall into - birds/ general debris/ rats etc.

Umm, you do realise that micro plastics from bottled water can leak into it? Chemicals like phthalates and BPA can leach into bottled water from the plastic. These chemicals can disrupt hormones and have been linked to health issues like cancer and heart disease.

Yeah exactly how I understand it, we never drank from the bathroom tap for that reason. I don’t have a tank now though but I still avoid drinking from the bathroom tap.

When our work purchased us a coffee machine I went to fill it via the kitchen tap when someone told me to use the filtered water from dispenser!

I wouldn’t drink from a bathroom tap unless it’s a ground floor bathroom.

I always use bottled water in coffee machines

So do you brush your teeth in your kitchen then? It's all going in your mouth just the same 🫠

I would only do that in an absolute emergency.. but I'm not sure why as I guess it's all the same water

Is just water from a tap. Why do you think that's weird?

I drunk from our bathroom tap but not the office one!

We don’t. Most places near us have water softeners in all but the cold kitchen taps. We have hard water here.

Yes...of course you do ..what's the difference

Yes, this.

As a child it was drummed into me that it was ok to clean teeth in the water from the bathroom, but it wasn't for drinking.

The water to the bathroom came via a storage tank in the loft. If there is no lid, then all sorts of stuff can end up in there - including spiders and other creepy crawlies. I have heard tales of the remains of rats, squirrels and birds being found.

The kitchen tap came from the mains, so was suitable for drinking.

Nowadays it's more usual for all water to come from the mains in newer houses.

Me too.

I would NEVER drink from the bathroom tap.

You are not supposed to, and it's not 'the same pipes.' Bathroom tap water is not drinking water.

Google it. It's entry level knowledge! You don't drink from the bathroom taps.

So what if you do it sometimes and you're still alive?!

People who have smoked for years are 'still alive.' It doesn't mean their insides are healthy!

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