Hi Guys, (Madrab,squeaky, Nozzzle) thanks for comments received after I abandoned last night to go to the pub.....it didn't help as I woke a couple of times in the night and started thinking about the damned hoses again........
Madrab, thanks, the plumber did explain to me why the check valve wouldn't work but to be honest I just nodded my head as he could of beeen talking Swahili with all the technicals he flung in...and as you saw, squeaky tried it and it din't cure the problem for him. With my limited (very) knowledge I thought that was what check valves were for. My other worry with check valves is that it will not cure the smell/taste going into the washing machine. I don't know whether it would be too diluted to matter or would eventually soil the clothes in the wash.
As an aside, something I didn't mention and for which I apologize for, was that when using the first hose I bought for the month of contaminated water, my wife told me that she had been cleaning the shower tray of pink leftover water (after the tray had drained). I never noticed cause I've poor colour vision...as well as an aversion to cleaning the bathroom
As noted the smell and taste disappear almost immediately when the hose is disconnected, it never comes back. Also the water quality is very good with no background taste of chlorine.
The strange thing from my point of view is that the taste/smell starts almost immediately the hose is on and hot water is drawn through the to the kitchen tap. It gets worse and migrates through the house.
When the hose is taken off it is a pungent smell described by all as chemical or plastic.
I've now left 2 different hoses outside in fresh air for over 24hours after flushing them with fresh water and removing the washers, then tested them for smell and re-washed again.
The two hoses have a different chemical/plastic smell, similar but not the same. The smell will not leave the hoses now no matter what is done to clean them. The smell is worst at the hose connector ends which makes me suspect the washers, but that is conjecture on my part and I can't prove it. If it is the washers then they appear to have permanently fouled the plastic connectors.
I went looking for old washers in my garage as I'm sad enough in the past to have kept things like that before Screwfix etc came along and was lucky enough to find a packet from about the year 2000 unopened and unused. Thinking I had won a watch I tried to install them on a hose and found out that they were too thick to let the connector screw onto the tap correctly. Must have been Best of British washers and not the low quality crap we get nowadays from abroad ....aah! ah remember t'day you could buy a sack of washers for a penny and still have change from a 9 bob note to buy the messages
As you can see the hoses have got to me. I would buy the Y splitter from hotpoint that allows a feed from the cold mains to both inlets, but having read the washing machine pdf the wife would have to put the machine on on Monday and come back for the spin on Friday. I also don't know if that would solve the problem if the blue and red hoses are similar. I know the red hose has temperature and bar descriptions which the blue don't, but they probably come out the same factory with the same fittings and washers.
Madrab, thanks, the plumber did explain to me why the check valve wouldn't work but to be honest I just nodded my head as he could of beeen talking Swahili with all the technicals he flung in...and as you saw, squeaky tried it and it din't cure the problem for him. With my limited (very) knowledge I thought that was what check valves were for. My other worry with check valves is that it will not cure the smell/taste going into the washing machine. I don't know whether it would be too diluted to matter or would eventually soil the clothes in the wash.
As an aside, something I didn't mention and for which I apologize for, was that when using the first hose I bought for the month of contaminated water, my wife told me that she had been cleaning the shower tray of pink leftover water (after the tray had drained). I never noticed cause I've poor colour vision...as well as an aversion to cleaning the bathroom
As noted the smell and taste disappear almost immediately when the hose is disconnected, it never comes back. Also the water quality is very good with no background taste of chlorine.
The strange thing from my point of view is that the taste/smell starts almost immediately the hose is on and hot water is drawn through the to the kitchen tap. It gets worse and migrates through the house.
When the hose is taken off it is a pungent smell described by all as chemical or plastic.
I've now left 2 different hoses outside in fresh air for over 24hours after flushing them with fresh water and removing the washers, then tested them for smell and re-washed again.
The two hoses have a different chemical/plastic smell, similar but not the same. The smell will not leave the hoses now no matter what is done to clean them. The smell is worst at the hose connector ends which makes me suspect the washers, but that is conjecture on my part and I can't prove it. If it is the washers then they appear to have permanently fouled the plastic connectors.
I went looking for old washers in my garage as I'm sad enough in the past to have kept things like that before Screwfix etc came along and was lucky enough to find a packet from about the year 2000 unopened and unused. Thinking I had won a watch I tried to install them on a hose and found out that they were too thick to let the connector screw onto the tap correctly. Must have been Best of British washers
and not the low quality crap we get nowadays from abroad ....aah! ah remember t'day you could buy a sack of washers for a penny and still have change from a 9 bob note to buy the messages As you can see the hoses have got to me. I would buy the Y splitter from hotpoint that allows a feed from the cold mains to both inlets, but having read the washing machine pdf the wife would have to put the machine on on Monday and come back for the spin on Friday. I also don't know if that would solve the problem if the blue and red hoses are similar. I know the red hose has temperature and bar descriptions which the blue don't, but they probably come out the same factory with the same fittings and washers.
