On Sat, 06 May 2006 11:05:48 +0100, David P wrote:

|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.

Then put replacing the pipes on the "to do sometime list"
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