Recommend a flexible water hose that "tastes good" !

[rash.patel]

Hi all

I've made the mistake of buying some cheap flexible hoses from B&Q that are connected to my washing machine and now affecting the taste of my drinking water - i.e. the plastic hose is reacting with the chlorine in the water and giving me a TCP taste - yuck!

Can someone recommend a diy store / web site I can get some decent quality cables from instead?

Thanks in advance

Rash

[Pete Cross]

you should have fitted anti-syphon valves to the water pipes so water from the washer pipes doesn't get sucked back into the main supply, it could even be illegal under local byelaws.

Pete

[Set Square]

Are you *sure* that they *are* affecting it - and that it isn't just the water supplier putting more chlorine in for the hot weather? Hopefully you have washing-machine taps on the supply side of the flexible hoses? What happens if you turn them off - does the water *still* taste funny?

[rash.patel]

Hi Pete

Thanks for the reply

I've just checked with my plumber and he has used self cutting taps - I'm pretty sure these include a non return element but not 100% - the work was done last week so the taps are new.

I might try and turn off the supply to the w/m using the self cutting taps and see how rthe water tastes after a while. By the way this really seems to only affect the water in the kitchen - the bathroom water doesnt taste nearly as bad.

Cheers

Rash

[dingbat]

Kitchen fitters and badgers use self-cutting taps. If he used them, then he's not deserving the title of "plumber" IMHO

[Mark A]

Didn't know badgers went in for plumbing all that much.

Regards

Mark

[david lang]

|| Kitchen fitters and badgers use self-cutting taps.

To be fair, they aren't going to be able to get their little paws around compression fittings are they?

:-)

Dave

[Brian Sharrock]

yeah: especially when they've got a full set

[Henry]

Particularly if there have been heavy downpours recently, it's times like that when Cryptosporidium gets washed into supplies and the water companies oomph up the chlorine as a safeguard.

Henry

[rrh]

Must be because they're a protected species (like plumbers).

[Toolmaker]

"Mark A" wrote in

only if they can use SETT-cutting taps