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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Mold comes from airborne spores. Mold needs air and food to survive. Inside of a water pipe there’s just pressurized water – no air, no food. Plus the water utility puts chlorine in the water so even if a little bug starts getting into the water through a tiny crack in one of the pipes, the chlorine will kill it.
You do get a build up of rust on the inside of cast iron pipes, through a process called tuberculation, but that doesn’t make you sick
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