So kitchens and bathrooms need cleaned regularly. The moisture and food in these rooms specifically make it easy for pathogens to grow. Plenty of people get mould problems in their homes. Kitchens need cleaned with disinfectant sprays to make them safe to produce food in.
What about the inside of taps though? Depending on the age of your house, the pipes and taps could be decades old, and will have never been cleaned on the inside, yet we don’t think twice about pouring a glass of water. Why is this? How are the insides not full of rust, grime and bacteria?
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Plummer here. I’m not going to talk on there being bacteria because I know nothing of that but when it comes to rust and build it depends on the type of water pipe. Newer plastic pipe called pex never rusts or grows build up because well it’s plastic. But older galvanized pipe (iron) over decades will build up so much rust you can’t even see light through the other side. Copper pipe is different though it will never rust or accumulate build up no matter how long it’s is there but it busts easily in cold weather. Although copper will build up corrosion on the outside if it is in contact with any wires with electricity or just metal in general. Now sewer pipes are a whole different story and you don’t want me to get into that. It doesn’t affect your health and will never interfere with your water in any way but you just really don’t want to know what I’ve seen
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