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After taking a shower our skin ITCHES and feels unpleasant the whole day. The water dries the skin out. My wife has dry skin and the skin on her fingers is completely cracking from washing her hands. We added an activated carbon filter to the shower head and the intensity of the problem went down but it is still a serious problem.
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Two weeks ago we moved into a property with a gravity fed water system in a hard water area. The cold water storage tank is located on the top floor (terraced house, 3 floors) and the vented hot water cylinder is in the basement. The house had been left empty for almost a year before we moved in. We have emptied the storage tank a few times for plumbing work since we moved in. The plumbing is around 25-30 years old.
Both the hot and cold water smells and tastes somewhat off (can’t describe the smell). One cold water tap is directly connected to the mains and that water is OK, so I guess the problem is the storage tank. The inside of the storage tank has limescale buildup, looks somewhat dirty and there is no lid.
Has anyone experienced something similar? What kind of contamination could it be? What can be done about the problem? Is it the water tank? (Right now we can’t afford to replace the water tank.)
After taking a shower our skin ITCHES and feels unpleasant the whole day. The water dries the skin out. My wife has dry skin and the skin on her fingers is completely cracking from washing her hands. We added an activated carbon filter to the shower head and the intensity of the problem went down but it is still a serious problem.
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Two weeks ago we moved into a property with a gravity fed water system in a hard water area. The cold water storage tank is located on the top floor (terraced house, 3 floors) and the vented hot water cylinder is in the basement. The house had been left empty for almost a year before we moved in. We have emptied the storage tank a few times for plumbing work since we moved in. The plumbing is around 25-30 years old.
Both the hot and cold water smells and tastes somewhat off (can’t describe the smell). One cold water tap is directly connected to the mains and that water is OK, so I guess the problem is the storage tank. The inside of the storage tank has limescale buildup, looks somewhat dirty and there is no lid.
Has anyone experienced something similar? What kind of contamination could it be? What can be done about the problem? Is it the water tank? (Right now we can’t afford to replace the water tank.)
