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[elmo]

We have horrible water in our kitchen-too much chlorine, but if you go 5 steps down the hall to our bathroom, the water's really nice!

[kenm]

Wiltshire water is naff. We occasionally get the odd bit of chlorine running through, and it's really hard and limescaley..ironing is a problem, whenever you try to steam something, your clothes get convered in little stupid bits of limescale....

I know the instructions with modern steam irons tell you that it's OK to use tap water, but I prefer distilled water. Whenever you defrost a fridge (they don't need it much nowadays) or a freezer, the ice melts into distilled water, because it has condensed from atmospheric water vapour. The only problem is that if you keep it for more than a week or two, it gets a green colour from algae that live on sunlight, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and what minimal quantities of minerals and nitrates the water still contains or gets from the container.

[Oddball]

Wiltshire water is naff. We occasionally get the odd bit of chlorine running through, and it's really hard and limescaley..ironing is a problem, whenever you try to steam something, your clothes get convered in little stupid bits of limescale....

I know the instructions with modern steam irons tell you that it's OK to use tap water, but I prefer distilled water. Whenever you defrost a fridge (they don't need it much nowadays) or a freezer, the ice melts into distilled water, because it has condensed from atmospheric water vapour. The only problem is that if you keep it for more than a week or two, it gets a green colour from algae that live on sunlight, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and what minimal quantities of minerals and nitrates the water still contains or gets from the container.

That's interesting. You should be on QI B)

We still have to defrost one of our freezers.... :rolleyes:

[Fen]

We have horrible water in our kitchen-too much chlorine, but if you go 5 steps down the hall to our bathroom, the water's really nice!

I notice the difference too - guess it's 'coz the kitchen water's coming in straight from the mains and the bathroom water's from the tank in the loft that gets to sit a bit ;)

[fluteandbassoon]

We have horrible water in our kitchen-too much chlorine, but if you go 5 steps down the hall to our bathroom, the water's really nice!

I notice the difference too - guess it's 'coz the kitchen water's coming in straight from the mains and the bathroom water's from the tank in the loft that gets to sit a bit ;)

Random fact: all the mains water in the UK that goes into a house is drinkable, but we only drink 1% of it.

[elmo]

33% of Germany's water is dirty water polluted with washing powder and or soap!

[sarah-flute]

bleh....