Cloudy water?! PRESSURE?

[mrbriggs]

Hi all,

I am getting cloudy water, from all taps/showers hot AND cold. If I put it in a glass it clears from the bottom up, so I presume it's loads of air bubbles? Thing is, can I sort this out? I know there is nothing wrong with it, but it looks disgusting especially when you have people over and they must look at it and go errrr!!!

By the way, I only started getting this after fixing a tap and must be because I switched off the water supply? I have opened the mains tap to full/half etc but it still does it?!

Cheers.

 

[Chris_J]

It will be loads of fine air bubbles. Mine does it too, mainly with the hot water.

Looks weird but I've never been bothered by it. As you say, it clears after a few seconds.

 

[mrbriggs]

Yeah, I just wanted to know, there must be a way of curing this prob?! It never used to do it?!

We have got guests staying soon and I would like to sort it by then!

Cheers

 

[Chris_J]

If it never used to do it, all I can guess is that the tap which you have replaced isn't quite fit correctly and is sucking in air as you draw water from it.

Seriously though, I wouldn't worry about it. Both my old flat and my current house do it all the time. Apparently, it's more common in hard water areas, but it's definately not any kind of sediment in the water.

I thought it looked kind of cool, not disgusting. I'm sure your guests won't bother about it the instant it clears.

 

[Softus]

It's in the water supply, and there's nothing you can do about that.

There's nothing disgusting about it, but if you're concerned then call your water supplier.

Possibly an aerating nozzle might cause the bubbles to disperse on the way out of the tap, but otherwise just put it out of your mind.