Recommend a flexible water hose that "tastes good" !

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

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?

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

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

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

Regards

Mark

|| 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

yeah: especially when they've got a full set

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

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

"Mark A" wrote in

only if they can use SETT-cutting taps