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

>
> 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
>


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

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
rash.patel@gmail.com   wrote:


> 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


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?
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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

rash.patel@gmail.com wrote:


> I've just checked with my plumber and he has used self cutting taps


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

dingbat@codesmiths.com wrote:

|| 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

dingbat@codesmiths.com wrote:


> 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

"Mark A"  wrote in message 
news:43282892.371B@rbgkew.org.uk...

> dingbat@codesmiths.com wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

yeah: especially when they've got a full set

-- 

Brian

>
> 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?


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

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


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

"Mark A" wrote in

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

only if they can use SETT-cutting taps