that bathroom tap water and kitchen tap water do not taste the same!

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I can ALWAYS taste the difference. Kitchen water is nicer. DH is a plumber and says this is impossible as it's the exact same water. I'm sure I could do a blind taste test. Is there a difference or is it just me?

Our bathroom water is from the cold tank in the loft. Same in my childhood house. I was always told never to drink from the bathroom tap in case there were dead pigeons or mice in the tank! I do fill the hamster water bottle though

Bathroom tap water much nicer here and i out last house! New houses though so I'm assuming no additional dead mouse flavour shots in it

I was told never to drink the bathroom tap water as a child because we had a tank. We don't have a tank but it still doesn't taste right!

We have a big water thank in the wages so I guess the bathroom in the loft conversion is fed by that? It's a brand new huge cylinder tank though so I doubt birds or mice could get it in it! Water tastes good from there. In the kitchen I drink from the water dispenser in the fridge and that's filtered so don't bother with the kitchen tap.

Was once adding cold water to a bath and a cockroach came out. In bits.

When this type of dispute happens in our house, we always do a blind taste test! (Kids claiming they can tell the difference between branded/shops own foods for example). Do it, it's fun!
If I need a drink, I'll get it from the closest tap - all of our cold taps are fed from the main so doesn't make a difference.

Might sound silly here but out of interest, why would there be a dead bird or mouse inside a water tank?! How could it happen?

We have a water softener. You can definitely tell the difference between kitchen (unsoftened) and bathroom (softened) water.

I didn't know you weren't supposed to drink bathroom water, even the hot water! Yes, I can taste the difference. Are used it for the first time tonight in my water floss or. I always end up swallowing the water, but I've only used kitchen water so far.

Oh good Lord, I have never thought about this. Our bathroom water tastes better to me, it’s always colder than kitchen water. I just assumed it came from the mains but reading this, we have a tank in our loft. Is my tasty bathroom water coming from the tank? I thought that tank was there just to fill the hot water tank.

There could be all sorts of things in there ffs! I’m pretty sure it’s not 100% covered. I’ve lived here 9 years, how did I not know this?!

I could taste the difference in my childhood home, where the water must have come from a tank. It tasted nicer, and was always colder too. In my current house, I can't really tell a difference. We have a combi boiler so no tank in this house.

Depends how it's been plumbed.

In my house I got rid of the tank and my bathroom has water fresh out of the mains, so in theory it tastes the same as kitchen water.

In reality though, the cold tap in the bathroom isn't used as much so the water stays in the pipe a bit longer and can taste noticeably different. It's easier at night not having to to the kitchen when I need a glass of water though 😂

Exactly the same from all four sinks in our house, regardless of the floor (even the second). Downstairs are the only ones that run instantly cold though, I have to run the other two for a few seconds.

The only time I've drunk water from the bathroom was when I had a massive hangover at 16 and didn't want my mum to know. I used the plug as a 'cup' That's how thirsty I was

depends on your house.
If you have a water tank, you should only ever drink from the kitchen tap which is connected to the rising main, and never fomr the bathroom which comes from the tank.

But many new houses don't have a tank I think, so both taps are from rising main

Same as YetAnotherUser. When we had our house extended I specified that i wanted the bathroom water drinkable because all children drink it.
We do have tanks but they're for the showers and baths.

causeimunderyourspell - many loft water tanks are open with no lid, so mice could fall in & drown when they can't climb up the steep slippery sides.

I'm showing my husband this thread! Prove him wrong about tanks in the loft. Had one growing up and my mum always told me not to drink out of the bathroom tap - I still don't even if there's no lift tank.

He reckons it's rubbish. Haha

I always remember as child being told not to drink the water from the bathroom tap because it came from the tank in the loft.

40 years later I got a combi boiler fitted and it took me months to retrain myself to fill my glass upstairs and not fear I was drinking mouse infested water!

Bathroom cold water is from a tank. Don’t drink it!

I did the plumbing of our upstairs bathroom. The cold water definitely does not come from a tank. There is no cold water tank anywhere in the house.

We have a tank in the loft -house built in 80's so not old..can't be that unusual

Hi
There is a mixture of correct and incorrect going on here (please indulge a spot of mansplaining!).
Older houses with central heating usually had a cold water tank, often galvanised steel and not particularly 'sealed' to stop debris from falling in. Probably around 1960's plastic tanks were installed and over more recent years legislation was tightened to ensure they were covered properly and 'bug filters' fitted to prevent unwanted intruders. The bottom inch or two of a cold tank never empties so any debris that you get from the mains, that you would not normally notice, will settle so you get a (hopefully) thin layer of sludge at the bottom over the years.
Combi boilers usually mean the cold tank will be unnecessary so all cold taps will be fed the same fresh water. Much of the more recent piping is plastic and so will pick up less 'flavour' from the pipework if the water stands in it for a while. particularly old houses may have lead pipes (which ought to be replaced) but copper is fine. The connecting bits, bends and other fittings are not normally made of copper and certain water types cause a chemical reaction between copper and the other metal which will give a bit of 'taste' to rarely used water. If your bathroom water really is colder than the kitchen tap then it suggests there is a risk that it could freeze in really cold weather, particularly if there is no heating on.

You were all told not to drink bathroom cold tap water incase your tank was an open one or was broken and pigeons or shit got in it. These days its totally safe if its a closed tank in the attic and it's emptied frequently by use.

What utter rubbish people are talking the tank in the loft is the header tank for the hot water system in most cases the house cold water is direct off the mains even if you don't have a combi boiler that is why there is higher water pressure on the cold tap on a system with a hot water tank as it uses gravity not mains pressure. With a combi hot and cold come off the mains. Depending where the water enters your house determines which is fresher, in out house bathroom and kitchen, by luck, are the same distance from the point of entry

@causeimunderyourspell they get in under the eaves of the house (under the side of the roof) if you have them and theyre not sealed properly. And if they get in a tank for a drink they likely wont get out again as they get stuck.