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The water at the source is fine, its only when its in the tank that it gains the tang/taint.
Thank's for all your suggestions, hadn't thought of the hose though!
Well, I assume that all of you who use garden hose to fill you drinking water would also be happy if your local used it to transfer your beer from cellar to tap and your dairy your milk from cow to carton. As a side effect it should help reduce prices if they didn't have to invest in the extra cost of using food grade stuff. BUT why are they required NOT to use any old hose, or is 'food safety' all about screwing the consumer cloaked in health issues !!!!!
If garden hose is not good enough for my beer and milk, then it is certainly not good enough for mother natures water.
Colin
For what it's worth, after I had renewed all the house downstairs plumbing in one go, I was left with an intermittent metallic taste from the kitchen cold water tap. It took a long while to pin down what it was but eventually I replaced the (new) flexible metal braided tap connector.
When I'd removed it and sniffed it I was instantly taken back to the horrible rubbery smell of the dentist's anaesthetic equipment. I took the connectors back to the merchants and they agreed that very occasionally hoses can cause a taint. They gave me a replacement set which have been fine.
The bad taste had been more noticeable in the morning after water had been absorbing the taint in the connector all night. If there was a frequent throughput of water it was hardly detectable. We had been blaming the water company for nocturnally messing about with their chemicals in the mains supply.
In the MH now, Madam Moley can spot tainted water from two yards, about the distance from the tap to her perch. In the first few months of ownership of the Bessie E410 I received plenty of grumbles about the water quality. I read through MHF posts on the subject and decided I would try and find the cause of this second water challenge.
I started by filling the fresh water tank to overflowing and then left the MH on the drive untouched for over two weeks. It's easy to get at the fresh water tank's inspection cover and so I dipped the tank with a beaker and asked Madam to quality test it, (without telling her it was "old" water).
Fine, was the verdict! I then tried the shower room tap and that was ok. When we tried the kitchen tap, it was unquestionably tainted.
So now, we run off about a "pipeful" of kitchen water and largely don't have any serious tainted water problems.
It's possible the van's tap connector might be the culprit but I decided the problem wasn't "service affecting" enough to warrant journeys to the dealer.
Undoubtedly, different sites around the country have their own flavour of water but never quite the same as being "tainted".
I tried the crystals and Miltons it had no affect, I then remember someone had written that the dealers use Sterident, with nothing to lose I thought I would give them a try, I bought a tube (£1.20) containing 30 tablets and put all of them into the tank, filled with water and ran through the taps then left it for 24 hours, I must say the result were amazing the taint/tang had completely disappeared.
I know what Ill be using from now on.
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