"stuart noble" wrote in message
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Anyone else concerned about water that has been left in a hosepipe and
baked by the sun? Mine has a nasty smell for the first minute or so and,
if the hose is set to mist, I wonder if there's a risk of something nasty
being inhaled. Legionnaires?

So how about flushing some diluted bleach through the hose or something else
that kills all known germs?
It's not something I've ever worried about.