My hot water smells funny

[Catz]

Bit of a long shot but maybe there's someone on here who might know why the water coming from my hot taps smells odd. It's a sort of faint musty, metallic smell and you can smell it on your hands after washing them. Only downstairs taps have this phenomenon.

Could there be something wrong with the hot water tank or the pipes?

[Broccers]

Something has died in your tank.

[martin thomas]

You may want to have a look in you water tank in the loft. Something could have crawled in there and then died. Quite common i'm told.


HTH Martin

Curse my slow typing!!

Edited by martin thomas on Sunday 11th January 20:24

[RDE]

Have you seen Dantes Peak?! Get out of the house now, before it's too late!

[Catz]

Well I did wonder if something had died in the tank but surely that would affect all the hot water in the house not just downstairs.

Luckily I don't live near a volcano.

[Lord Pikey]

Your Boiler has bad Aids.

Sorry

LP

[TheEnd]

does that tap get used a lot?

sounds like there is some corrosion going on in the pipes or the tap

[mybrainhurts]

martin thomas said:

Curse my slow typing!!

OK...

I curse your slow typing...

[mybrainhurts]

My hot water smells funny when I've been on the beers...

[Uncle Fester]

How’s the hot water heated?

If it’s by gas then there is a heat exchanger inside the tank. Hot water in the central heating system gets pumped around it. If it were to spring a leak then the water from the central heating system could enter the hot water supply.

As the central heating system is a closed circuit, it usually has a corrosion inhibiting chemical in it.

Of course, it’s more likely that your wife is after your life insurance.

[MarkwG]

Eating asparagus does that to me...

[mybrainhurts]

It's gone quiet...

Must have been cyanide...

[308mate]

Is it pale or dark?

You might just be dehydrated.

[gazza_3]

Does it sting your Japs eye in the morning?

[Bonnie and Clyde]

So does mine

[ironictwist]

gazza_3 said:

Does it sting your Japs eye in the morning?

I may be making a dangerous assumption...But I was under the impression Catz doesn't have one of "those"

[gazza_3]

ironictwist said:

gazza_3 said:

Does it sting your Japs eye in the morning?

I may be making a dangerous assumption...But I was under the impression Catz doesn't have one of "those"

My bad.

Edited by gazza_3 on Monday 12th January 19:05

[mybrainhurts]

gazza_3 said:

ironictwist said:

gazza_3 said:

Does it sting your Japs eye in the morning?

I may be making a dangerous assumption...But I was under the impression Catz doesn't have one of "those"

My bad.

Yes, we've established that...

[Poledriver]

You haven't had Mrs. Baby Huey around to stay since the New Year have you?

[Bonnie and Clyde]

Poledriver said:

You haven't had Mrs. Baby Huey around to stay since the New Year have you?

Do you think Baby Huey may be in the tank?