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Not my campaign for the addition of a 'Type 8' on the Bristol Stool Chart. No, something else entirely.
Sometimes our tap water is cloudy - not with any muck or mud but with incredibly small bubbles. Sometimes by cloudy I mean it can be opaque, almost milky in appearance with the bubbles themselves far too small and densely packed to see, then over ten minutes or so the bubbles will slowly clear. Its doesn't smell or taste of anything and usually the water is fine and its only every so often we get this and when we do the water will be like that for a day or two.
Recently we've had heat/hot water system changed now when we get the fizzy water its dissolving out in the how water pipes and creating bubble and airlocks and causing the hot water taps to cough/splash/splutter quite a violently when we run them. (it didn't seem to be an issue when we had on-demand hot water, but now we have a hot water tank the water is sitting hot in the pipes).
So anyway - what causes that then? Do I need an exorcist?
Fracking?
This happens to us as well. It is after there has been a broken pipe...I have always assumed the water company are adding something to the water to keep it safe.
The water at my grandparents place in Cardiff was always like that. Never did me any harm. WIBBLE 😯
Too many people farting in the bath
Just fully read your post. I bet you've just had an unvented hot water tank fitted - you've now got a pressurised system and the pressure is causing cloudy water. It's not a problem and will go away.
The spluttering from the taps is the clearing of air locks from the existing pipework - again, will pass.
My relatives in the country near new Cumnock had water like that back when I used to go, your out that way aren't you?
It can be like that after a burst pipe, it's air that has got into the pipe work. When it gets pressurised it dissolves into the water, then coming out when the taps are opened - like opening a pop bottle.
Can also be cause by localised warming of pipe work within a property - you can identify if this is the cause if it runs cloudy and warm when the taps first opened, and then clears and goes cooler after a couple of minutes.
Here are a couple of helpful PDFs...
[url= http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/_assets/media/10899_ANW_WQ_01_Looks_Cloudy_Mains_(7)_SS.pdf ]cloudy water short term[/url]
[url= http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/_assets/media/10899_ANW_WQ_02_Looks_Cloudy_Plumbing_(7)_SS.pdf ]cloudy water longer term[/url]
Yep - it's just pressurised air in the system somewhere. It occurs outside of your house, usually when the water co. has been doing some work.
Just fully read your post. I bet you've just had an unvented hot water tank fitted - you've now got a pressurised system and the pressure is causing cloudy water.
both hot and cold taps are like this though. The hot water system is new, but new in the last few months new and we've had the fizzy water before and since, its the spluttering thats particular to the new system but only on days when the water is fizzy
It occurs outside of your house, usually when the water co. has been doing some work.
that could tally with the most recent occurrence - theres mains work going on in the next village