To insist on a glass of water from the kitchen?

[Coffeeinthepark]

I don't want bathroom water but DH insists it is exactly the same. It's a long running disagreement, can you resolve it for us.

He knows I am posting. If consensus is that I am indeed being unreasonable I will drink the bathroom water. if on the other hand I win, he will go down to the other wing of the big spooky holiday house we are sharing with friends to get me some fresh kitchen water.

You urinate in the bathroom sink?!

Lol, I can see how that reads.

Bathroom water in my house is from the mains, so it should be the same as the kitchen but it feels wrong drinking it. Probably because I grew up in a house with a cold water tank in the loft.

I'm guessing you've already enjoyed your glass of nice cold water from the kitchen

But to tell the difference if you don't know if there is a tank or not... Mains water tends to be higher pressure and a lot colder than tank water. If the bathroom is plumbed from mains there's sometimes condensation on the toilet cistern from holding cold water...

I wouldn't think about it though, kitchen water everytime here!

YANBU kitchen water is best especially when you don't know the piping set up in a rented place.

And breaastfeesing would mean YWNBU even if you were wrong.

So doubly right.

I have a thing about this. My Grampy told me when I was a child to never drink bathroom water because anything could be in it. Including dead mice or even birds (my grandparents had housemartins nesting in the attic). He didn't say it to frighten me, he was ex-army so it was just a matter of fact bit of information his was giving to his granddaughter.

I've never let it go.

I think YABU, especially over the breast feeding issue. Your body will protect your baby from so much, so unless there is something really weird in the water then your baby will be fine. I say this as someone with a 6 month old, who I've just stopped breast feeding as she is intolerant to my milk (long story!)

I really cannot see why the bathroom water would be in the slightest bit different.

Juniper, I think that op meant she couldn't get out of bed to get the water herself, because she has a baby attached to her breast, rather than not drinking the water because of breast feeding.

Our bathroom water is drinkable, but I don't know if it's the design of the taps, but the water comes our cloudy from bubbles which isn't appetising. It clears but it always tastes a bit different, so I normally drink from the kitchen.

YANBU

Our bathroom water is drinkable, but I don't know if it's the design of the taps, but the water comes our cloudy from bubbles which isn't appetising. It clears but it always tastes a bit different, so I normally drink from the kitchen.

YANBU

Our bathroom water is drinkable, but I don't know if it's the design of the taps, but the water comes our cloudy from bubbles which isn't appetising. It clears but it always tastes a bit different, so I normally drink from the kitchen.

YANBU

My experience was a floating pigeon corpse rather than a jellified bat, & I couldn't wait to ditch the old storage tank system when I gutted the house. Now I keep mugs upstairs & if anyone's thirsty in the night - voila!

The kids routinely drink out of the hot taps, including upstairs (sigh).
Annoys me, but they seem alright for it.

The water upstairs from cold tank tastes a bit of plastic (tank is plastic) but well sealed, nothing truly yucky in there.

Since we changed our water & heating system - all our water comes off the mains, funnily enough our bathroom is now before the kitchen on the run as we had a new mains & stopcock installed (water comes in & goes straight upstairs to join the system, before working its way downstairs) but previous to that it came through a tank which when removed had 2 bat skeletons in

YABU if there's no water tank in the loft.

I never realised until MN that so many people had hang ups about the water coming through bathroom taps. It's just water that has been treated, like all the other water in your home. And not drinking water from an outside tap - bonkers. I can understand the reluctance if you know you have a cold water tank in the loft, say, but honestly this is a real first world 'issue' only.

I used to work for a water company. If you seen the inside of a header tank you would NEVER drink water from the bathroom again, let alone want to brush your teeth with it. I have seen many a bird carcass, flies, a layer if scum you name it.
Mains water from the cold kitchen tap is the only water you can safely consume unless all your taps are mains fed.

And fwiw drinking water from the tap outside would probably be safer because it too is mains fed.

Our water is all mains fed ( no tank) but I still don't like drinking water from the bathroom, old habits never die!