Bathroom water vs Kitchen water

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Is it just me or do other people also not like drinking water from the bathroom taps. I mean, it's the same water that you get through the kitchen tap but somehow just feels wrong .. (even tastes different but that's totally just in my head). Just wondering

The water in my bathroom isn't the same as from the kitchen as we have feeder tanks in the loft. The kitchen is mains water and the bathroom upstairs is tank water. Still drink it though

Our taps are all mains water in my current house, but growing up, bathroom taps were fed by a water tank in the loft so we were brought up not to drink bathroom water. It's rare, but there are illnesses you can catch from water tanks.

We have mains water throughout as it makes no difference. I’ll often fill up my water glass in the middle of the night from the bathroom tap so I don’t have to trek to the kitchen

All ours comes from the same tank, but for some reason my dogs love “upstairs” (bathroom) water.

Will easily refill that bowl 6 times a day, meanwhile
The kitchen one gets refreshed every morning but is mostly untouched.

Have experimented by switching the bowls, but same response. They must know something we don’t... but then, they also love the taste of possum shit, so....

If your bathroom tap is tank fed, don't drink it!
Having seen the contents of several water tanks in lofts (dead mice, birds, ) I would never drink it.

Depends if you have a water tank in your loft. You shouldn’t drink that as it can be dirty.

I was brought up as a child not to drink bathroom water because it was from a tank rather than the mains. All of the taps in our house are mains water - despite this DH still complains about "bathroom water" if I fill the glasses up from there, because he says it tastes different.

In many houses it is NOT the same water. Kitchen tap water comes fresh direct from mains supply. Bathroom cold tap is fed from tank in loft that may contain debris, pigeon poop, bits of loft insulation, whatever.

Ours is all mains and I have no issue drinking water from the bathroom taps.

Aaaahhhh I didn't realise about the water tank, maybe that's what I grew up being told and just forgot. In current house it's definitely mains :-D

We call bathroom water “spider water” but I still drink it.

Do people with loft tanks not use bathroom water for brushing their teeth then?

Yes I use it for brushing teeth and when I'm thirsty at night. We're probably immune to what's living in the tank as we've survived the last 20 years drinking it. There is a lid on the tank

All of ours is mains, I'll drink any water out of any tap!

Plus my bedroom is on the second and a half floor (loft conversion) and I'm buggered if I'm traipsing up down three flights of stairs in the middle of the night when there's a perfectly good tap next door.

A cockroach (in bits) once came out of my bathroom taps, so I wouldn’t drink it, it’s tank fed.

@Shizzlestix

Newer houses have mains supply to all the cold taps. Many older ones have lift tanks that feed the bathroom taps. Look in your loft. 😊