dahkota wrote: Garden hose. No problems with taste. Run it for long enough to get anything in it out first. I'd be surprised that fast flowing water through a hose can pick up any taste.
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Run it long enough to flush it out. The white hose is good for water that is sitting in it not flowing...like when you are parked at the site with the hose cooking in the sun. I wouldn't want to use a garden hose for that.
W4MBG wrote: "Often regular garden hoses contain high consentrations of led"
makes them easier to see at night.
sorry bob, had to do it.
lead was a common additive in plastics until a few years ago. AFAIK lead had to be eliminated from all plastics that children would be exposed to starting a few years ago so any newer water hose should be lead free.
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Oasisbob wrote: Often regular garden hoses contain high consentrations of led and are not designed to be used for drinking water. This is a fact. It's your call.
I always used the white hose, even while at home. We do drink out of the fresh water tank, no issues there.
At home, I used to take the hose out of the tote, then coil it back up in the tote and put it back in the basement compartment. But that got old pretty fast. I have now bought some new lengths of white hose and a new wheeled hose storage cart that lives in the garage. So now it's a piece of cake to wheel out the hose, and then reel it back in and put it away.
That hose/cart gets used only for filling tanks, I have a regular old garden hose in another cart for other uses.
Might be overkill to keep two hoses, and like others I don't think you'd pick up too many flavors or hose by-products from the running water (water that had been sitting in the hose for a while is a different story, so if I used a regular hose I would flush it first -- actually, I run water through the white hose for a minute before hooking it up anyway.) But I use the two hoses primarily to prevent cross-contamination, that way I don't have to worry about fertilizer, weed killer, car washing soaps, engine washing grease, chemicals from draining the hot tub, etc. getting on/in the potable water hose (that's my main reason for segregation.)
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I was full-time for years. I used the white hoses, but they would only ever last a few months out here in AZ and I needed at least 40' to reach from the faucet to my fresh water inlet. I got sick of replacing them so often and got my hands on a Goodyear branded (bought at Sears I think) high temperature/high pressure hose. I also have sediment and charcoal filters on the inlet. I never noticed a bad taste, but I'm pretty sure that high quality hose is killing me. BTW, I've now had that hose since 2007 and it's still holding up without issue. (Oh, and I'm no longer full-time, but still have that hose.)
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Oasisbob wrote: Often regular garden hoses contain high consentrations of led and are not designed to be used for drinking water. This is a fact. It's your call.
Just wondering, if the garden hoses are that bad then what happens when you water vegetable plants if your have a garden. Does that bad water goes into the root system and then into the veggie it's self?
x2. I run the hose for a few minutes to flush out any stale or warm water, then through the normal carbon filter straight into the fresh water tank.
Never noticed any difference in the water taste, and been drinking out of the water hose for 60 year and still around.
X2!! The hose I use to fill up is in the front of the house, all coiled up in one of those box type hose reels with a cover on it.
Yes they might contain some lead, but I doubt thats an issue unless that garden hose was your only source of water for 20 years and its all you drank out of.
goducks10 wrote: Just wondering, if the garden hoses are that bad then what happens when you water vegetable plants if your have a garden. Does that bad water goes into the root system and then into the veggie it's self?
X2 good point!!
Not to mention all the critters that use your garden as a toilet. hehehe
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