Smelly House water

[mmail2you]

I get a slight smell from when I turn on my shower water but it does subside after a couple of minutes, I was wondering if I can add something to the water tank to add a better smell and something that will not harm my skin ?

[h90]

I don't know if silver helps.

It helps against some microorganism

[sirocco]

water stagnates in the shower pipe, the solution is not to hang up, but letting it hang down until next shower. With this heat, it smells like sewer.

[mmail2you]

Thanks Sirocco we have a overhead raindrop shower so maybe there is stagnate water in the pipe but I can not hang it down so I was looking for something like vanilla essence or some drops I can put in the water tank.

[Sheryl]

Moving this to the DIY housing forum as I think you'll get better response there.

[Neeeko]

Does it smell like rotten eggs or eggy farts?

That's what I get, but goes away after about 10 seconds of running the water

[Rorri]

water stagnates in the shower pipe, the solution is not to hang up, but letting it hang down until next shower. With this heat, it smells like sewer.

What... never heard such rot. Granted, water stagnates, but not that quickly, otherwise my hose water would smell along with and taps in the house and the flushing toilet.

[BlackJack]

sometimes theres some plastic bits in either the shower head, hose or water heater

sometimes it rots

then the smell starts

change them over and see what happens

[bankruatsteve]

If it's the rotten egg smell, that could be hydrogen sulfide and which can appear to go away after a while but actually deadens the senses. If you have a tank, try putting in a cap full of bleach every day and should take care of the problem.

[crazykopite]

Are you on Government water or well water I would be surprised if the water left in your rain shower stagnated if used on a regular basis I suggest a little bleach or even chlorine into your holding tank should solve the problem . If the water is from a well then you should treat the water in the well in the same way

[johnmcc6]

Tray getting the dead pidgeon out of the tank.

[johnmcc6]

ok.... where is that spell check???

[VocalNeal]

We have the same thing in the hot season and only for the shower. The first 15 seconds or so smell well, phenolic. After that it is fine. I just ignore it.

[ggt]

Recycled douche water?

[sehervomstein]

Get yourself a small ozone machine and you will get the best water you can get.

[wvavin]

Something is dead and rotting along the source of the water supply to your house.

[picoranton]

There might be a dead geko in your tank, had this myself sometime ago!

[lucifer666]

Been in Hua Hin, 3 years now (Same home) and our water has always had a slight smell and leaves a brown stain which i clean ( Scrub),monthly. One of the guys (who services the street, water machines), gave me a filter, which i retro-fitted to the shower. ( Couple of fittings and a tube of Araldite). It does help somewhat. But the smell is still there occasionally.