Do people drink water from the bathroom tap tap

We don't drink from our bathroom taps as it comes from a tank. The kitchen water comes from the mains.

Do you honestly think there’s some hugely complicated water network under the roads with different pipes that are specifically setup for different rooms?!

We have cold water tanks in the loft but I still drink water from the bathroom taps.

Us too, every night.

Yes I remember having a tank and being told not to drink bathroom water, so it’s stuck. I’ve also seen some places that have big signs in the toilets saying “not suitable for drinking”

I do it occasionally on holiday but generally I avoid because it’s habit.

Logically I know that the bathroom taps in my new build house are fed from the mains and are the same as the kitchen sink … but psychologically I can’t drink from them … it just feels wrong, having grown up in an older house and being told not to! Even in a hotel I won’t drink from the bathroom tap … I buy bottled water instead which is crazy I know!

I would hate that. Sinks are for washing your hands and they are small so you'd have to touch the sink or even the tap with the coffee jug and that's just rank. It may sound silly but something about it makes me nauseous. I'd fill up a water glass from my own bathroom sink but I know that's clean and I wouldn't need to touch the glass to the sink or tap.

When we moved into our house we discovered we still had a lead mains pipe so it was either drink lead or drink infusion of drowned squirrel. I now have a plastic mains pipe and a mains pressure tank

When I worked from my mum's study for a week upstairs whilst looking after the cats one summer, I kept getting water from the bathroom tap to top up my water bottle. I'm still here...

Our taps are all mains but I can't bring myself
To drink from the bathrooms. Thanks and dead animal stories when I was a kid out me
Right off. I know it's irrational.

Yes, the convention of not drinking bathroom water comes from UK houses often having gravity fed systems whereby the cold water upstairs was from a tank in the loft and the water downstairs was mains, so the cold water upstairs wasn't "fresh". But now not that many homes have that system (cold water is mains fed throughout) so the cold water is the same throughout.

Not in a house where the upstairs is connected to a water tank in the attic rather than the mains. But otherwise yes, wouldn’t give it a second thought.

Our maternity ward recently had no water for over a year, you couldn't even shower after you'd given birth 😬

Absolutely wouldn't drink from my bathroom tap. We have a cold water tank in the loft. However, if I didnt have a tank and it was directly from the mains, there'd be no difference so it wouldn't bother me.

I drink from the bathroom tap as it's mains water, so exactly the same as elsewhere in my home.

I once lived in a flat with an old fashioned system where bathroom water came from communal water tanks in the loft. Never drank from that (beyond a bit of water on my tooth brush).

Personally no, thought it was a man thing when you said it but then am in my 40s and grew up in a very old house so it could have been that! I can taste the difference but it could just be in my head (but I still won’t use for anything other than bathroom stuff 😅)

I think it depends whether the water in the taps comes straight from the mains or if it comes from a cold water tank.
I don't know about office/commercial premises, but it used to be the case that houses had water tanks in the loft which would supply upstairs bathrooms. These tanks could have dead birds or insects floating in them so the water wasn't recommended for drinking. Water to the kitchen taps comes straight off the mains, so doesn't run the same risk of contamination.
So it all depends where you water supply to the toilets comes from although the taps themselves are likely to be contaminated by people's hands after they've used the toilet so that's another good reason not to fill up there

People used to have a header tank in the loft that fed the upstairs tap and they could be minging but your office wcs will be fed directly from the mains, just like most homes now.

if the water wasn't drinking water they would have to put up signs for H&S.

I've not got a problem drinking from the bathroom tap at home, but I wouldn't do it at work. It just feels unhygienic for some reason.

I would drink from bathroom tap at home but not in a public toilet where it could have faeces / urine etc on and unsure how throughly and regularly it is cleaned

I fill my glass from the bathroom

Absolutely not 😭 the bathroom tap is for washing and teeth brushing, not for drinking

No physical difference I'm sure but its morally unacceptable imo

In some houses the bathroom cold feed comes from a tank in the loft which is not a good idea to drink.

If you have no tank and all taps are mains fed it’s fine.

I have no idea of the set up at your office but if it’s a modern building I would assume taps are all mains fed.

It used to be (and still can be) that the bathroom in houses was a tank so different and it can be on a separate system (in can say not drinking water) other than that it’s the same

I drink the cold water from my own bathroom (or that of friends/family/hotels etc) but I wouldn’t from the sinks in the toilets at work. I don’t know why.