Do people drink water from the bathroom tap tap

As child I always used to get water from the bathroom tap. As an adult I only drink from the kitchen and tell my children not to drink from the bathroom tap. I read that it's different pipes/tank but I could be wrong. Anyway it seems a bit grim getting wayer from the bathroom tap where everyone poops , pees and washes there dirty hands there, even if it gets cleaned , still find it a bit gross

My teen son always does it at night when he is too lazy to go downstairs, he told me it was from the same water tank when I told him not to. We have it filtered but he knows more than I do about the water tank. 🤣

I drink from the bathroom tap, I know long ago it used to be something to avoid. I wouldn't fill up a bottle or kettle from a toilet sink at work though but I can't quite explain why.

If my downstairs kitchen tap is turned on, the upstairs bathroom tap turns into a trickle. I'm assuming both are on the mains? Does that sound right??

Surely if it's going into a coffee machine it's a moot point?

If it's direct feed from the rising main then it's OK. If it's via a header/storage tank then no- you don't know what might have fallen in the tank and be decomposing!

Been drinking cold water from the bathroom cold tap for almost 50 years since we moved into this house. I'm still alive.
Or am I a ghost.......?

I wouldn't drink water from the tank. Who knows how clean the tank is and how long the water has neen sitting in it. The cold kitchen tap is drinking water.

Also, in the office bathroom people are using those taps before washing their hands. The person filling the jug is handling the taps and then handling the jug. Food related equipment does not belong in the bathroom.

Tanks are still used where water pressure may not be sufficient. But old tanks used to be pretty much open (we had a pigeon get into ours and die once!), newer tanks are built to a different standard and should be sealed. Providing they are properly installed and get checked that they haven't deteriorated from time to time, they should be safe to drink from.

When i grew up, we had a cold water tank, and once feathers and maggots came soluttering out of the bath taps... some poor bird had flown into the loft and fallen in the tank, which apparently had a very shoddy lid. (All a bit basic and we were pretty poor).

Even though everything is on mains now, I remain cautious about that kind of thing...I would boil water from the bathroom in my house but would never drink straight from the tap even though I know my system is totally fine!

So I get your reticence, but apparently we really shouldn't worry.

Is the water being boiled?

I mean it wouldn't bother me if it's all the same tank.

I don't.
DH does.

The tap tap?! 🤣

Depends if it's mains or tank fed. Most are now mains fed so it would be fine for drinking but it still feels weird as I grew up with a tank - fine for brushing teeth and swilling out, but you wouldn't want to drink it. Drinking water was always from the kitchen mains fed tap.

This. I live in a flat now and the coldest nicest water comes from my bathroom.

Why wouldn’t you? It’s the same water? The bathroom tap doesn’t take its water from the loo!
I use whichever tap is nearest to me.

I drink water from my bathroom tap and have drunk water from the bathroom tap in previous homes. I wouldn't faff about with wandering downstairs in the night for water when I can get it upstairs.

Your work set up is different in that it depends on how regularly the space is cleaned, what the layout of the basin/tap is. I'd be more suspicious of hygiene in your office. But if the water is just coming out of a tap and into the water container for your coffee machine without the container touching anything in the toilet space then it's unlikely to be unhygienic.

It entirely depends on where your water comes from. All newer built homes have mains water throughout and plastic pipes, it literally is the same water throughout and potable at every outlet. Old houses would have been built with a water tank where the water was standing and therefore not fit for drinking and cooking. Only the kitchen tap would have been direct to mains. As many older houses have been renovated it is possible that the water tank has been removed so it is important to understand where your water is coming from.

Commercial premises are different in that it is much less common for mains at all outlets and it would be reasonable to assume that the water has come from a tank in toilet areas. Kitchen taps that are mains should be labelled drinking water otherwise potable water via bottled supply or filtered should be provided.

One of the things to bear in mind about tanked water is... how often is the tank inspected? Is it a plastic covered tank? Is it clean and undamaged? It would not be unknown for dead animals to end up in tanks.

In a non domestic building, if the cold water can't be used for drinking, it must have a sign saying so. Cold water is mains fed in the vast majority of buildings over about 40 years old.

I drink cold water from the bathroom tap - it’s fine.

My house was built in 2000 and has storage tanks in the loft

I wouldnt drink from the bathroom tap - unless desperate - its in a stored rubber tank and does taste different from tap water from the mains. I certaintly would not use bathroom tap water from work - no idea where its coming from or where its stored.

If it’s coming from the same place (mains) fine, from a storage tank I wouldn’t.

In some older houses, the bathroom tap was supplied from the cold water storage tank in the loft, which could be stale and dusty, and have sediment. The kitchen tap was supplied from the mains, so fresh and uncontaminated. Depends on your plumbing. In our old Victorian house I wouldn't drink the upstairs tap water, but in our 1960s house, all cold taps are mains water, so I could use any of them.

I was taught not to because in our old house, the bathroom taps were fed from a tank which didn't necessarily stay clean while drinking water came from kitchen taps directly from mains. In more modern buildings it may all come from the mains with no tank in between.

My bathroom tap is from a water tank, so no. Mains fed only for drinking water, not tanked.