Making tea in my bedroom

anneey is going to boil the water, for tea. wouldn't that make it safe?

I always wonder about the tea & coffee facilities in hotels as one usually fills the kettle from the tap in the ensuite. Or do other people not do that?

Sorry, Linsco - if you have a cold water tank (usually in the attic) then any water drawn from a tap other than the kitchen one will have spent time in that tank. If you have no cold water tank then all your taps are fed from the mains and therefore safe to drink. Hot water tank irrelevant to this enquiry!

I think I'm correct in saying water drawn from any tap in the house be it upstairs or downstairs is taken straight from the rising main unless you use the hot tap and then water will be taken from the tank.

Suggested bottled water as OP didn't want to carry fresh water upstairs and wasn't sure about using g water from tank

I'm still confused about the upstairs/downstairs water...

Our tap water smells/tastes of bleach so I use a filter jug.

You can get large bottles (2litres?) Of still water in Tescos or Lidls for 17pence.

I have never used bottled water in my entire life. To me it is a waste of money.

Just think of the generations who didn't have the luxury of bottled water and drank tap water carried into the home via lead pipes.

I have a tank, brush my teeth etc and I am still alive. I would fill the kettle downstairs before I went to bed and then you have water in the morning. That is what I have done yonks ago when I fancied coffee in bed.

Are you in the UK, anneey?

We have a combi boiler so no tank, but in the past everyone had one and surely we all cleaned our teeth and got a drink of water etc from the bathroom at night?

I brush my teeth with tap water from upstairs. I sometimes gargle etc.

If not mains water I suppose we shouldn't drink it.
There used to be random stories about dead animals in water tanks and such.

In practice, I wonder who many of us go ahead and drink it.

Bottled water on hand for when you need it might be one option?