On 06 May 2006, Dave Plowman wrote:

In article ,
Mxsmanic wrote:
Germs, yes, but there might be other inorganic substances in the
water that wouldn't be good for you, such as very high levels of
iron from the plumbing.

Iron? Pretty well all domestic plumbing in the UK is copper plastic
or lead. Iron barrel is virtually unheard of. Header tanks were
steel, but galvanised. If the zinc has gone the tank won't last
much longer.


I don't know what iron barrel is but some of the feed pipes from the
rising main into the roofspace look as if they might be made of steel.

The building is about 40 years old.