Hot Water - Strange Smell

[Jim Burrows]

Hi

My hot water has started to have a strange smell to it - similar to the smell given off when opening a car radiator expansion tank. I'm wondering what may have caused it - I have a hot water cylinder fed from a gas boiler and was wondering if the internal heating element of this has corroded through and the hot water from the CH side was getting into the hot water side - if this is indeed how it works.

Jim

[Dave Liquorice]

Nail, hammer, head in most probability.

[Andy Burns]

Dead pigeon in loft tank?

[Bill]

Could be, had a dead rat in the loft tank once, it had decomposed enough to get into and block the outlet pipe, just its tail left sticking out. There had been an interesting smell and taste to the water for a while, not of decomposing flesh though. It had probably had some of the normal putrid smell removed by the water?

Well worth a check in the loft.

[Si]

In message , Bill writes

you've knowingly tasted decomposing flesh????

mmmmmm :)

[Andy Hall]

Never been to McDonalds?