Low point drain - Page 3

gbaglo · 09-25-2014, 06:11 PM

Can't help with the full time mattress, but you do need to bypass the water heater ( or fill it with 6 gallons of antifreeze ).

J Mac · 09-25-2014, 06:17 PM

You just talked yourself out of a free Rum and Coke baglo ha! I'll check the web site and figure it out!

thoer · 09-26-2014, 05:05 PM

I must have really bad taste buds as I use RV antifreeze each winter. In the spring,after I get the system sanitized with bleach and double rinsed to get out the bleach taste out, I have never tasted a hint of the antifreeze. I even pump it from the fresh water tank to makes sure the pump gets it and that is supposed to be the horror of all horrors.

Must be all that spicy food.

gbaglo · 09-26-2014, 05:18 PM

Just thinking, I would have to have a shot of RV antifreeze so I know what it tastes like...

float5 · 09-26-2014, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by thoer

I must have really bad taste buds as I use RV antifreeze each winter. In the spring,after I get the system sanitized with bleach and double rinsed to get out the bleach taste out, I have never tasted a hint of the antifreeze. I even pump it from the fresh water tank to makes sure the pump gets it and that is supposed to be the horror of all horrors.

Must be all that spicy food.

We are not all brewers and have your fastidiousness.

thoer · 09-26-2014, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by gbaglo

Just thinking, I would have to have a shot of RV antifreeze so I know what it tastes like...

Wait unti you need a colonoscopy . They will give you a nice dose of if the day before

thoer · 09-26-2014, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Floating Cloud

We are not all brewers and have your fastidiousness.

I will have to show that to Mary, I don't think fastidiousness is a description she would use with me!

Jim Bennett · 09-26-2014, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by thoer

I must have really bad taste buds as I use RV antifreeze each winter. In the spring,after I get the system sanitized with bleach and double rinsed to get out the bleach taste out, I have never tasted a hint of the antifreeze. I even pump it from the fresh water tank to makes sure the pump gets it and that is supposed to be the horror of all horrors.

Must be all that spicy food.

It is a matter of time on hand too. This is a method I used to use on my previous stick trailer. In the 6 years of owning my 19, I have only had to bleach once to clear up any taste, and that was when it was new. Drying the lines out for the winter seems to leave them nice and clean, as we have had no bad taste arise yet.

thoer · 09-26-2014, 07:55 PM

I sanitize with bleach every fall and spring. I don't want that black moldy looking stuff I have found before in plastic bike water bottles and bladder tubes growing in my fresh water tank or lines. In between trips I used some peroxide based homebrewing sanitizer that doesnt need any rinsing. I think home brewing gets one attached to sanitizing unless you want some nasty tasting beer

Jim Bennett · 09-26-2014, 09:18 PM

Maybe it has to do with your local water. I have never had issues with anything to do with our tap water here.

gharper · 09-26-2014, 11:57 PM

On the west coast I find fungal growth in damp environments with poor air circulation in damp water containers, around damp windows, etc, and so I sanitize the water system each spring. I am also nervous about some campsite's water quality or me contaminating the trailer water system with a dirty hose, etc. I refer to CDC's recommendations as to how much bleach to use to sanitize a container.

http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/pdf/..._Flyer_508.pdf

dbailey · 09-27-2014, 08:21 AM

If you use city tap water, it will most likely have a chlorine compound in it, which will help keep algae and other things from growing in it. If you're on a well, you don't have this advantage.

I'm on a well, and do a bleach rince once or twice a year.

Jim Bennett · 09-27-2014, 08:36 AM

That chlorinated city water thought is a good one, Doug. Other than a couple fillups away from home, it has been almost entirely our dirty water in the tank, and being close to the mountains, our water is highly rated. I drink from the tap all the time.

Do you also have to treat the lines in your house once in a while with that same water going through them? That is something that never gets done around here (though could be in rural areas).

thoer · 09-27-2014, 08:50 AM

We're on a well too. Isn't a problem in the home system as I understand as it is constantly filled whereas the trailer lines when drained are moist with no movement of water while stored

dbailey · 09-27-2014, 11:02 AM

Yup, what thoer said...

Occasionally you hear of an exception, where somebody has gotten an ecoli outbreak in their well, and they treat the whole well with a chlorine shock. But that's the exception.

Plus, I trust the water in my well a whole lot more than I trust some campground water...

gharper · 09-27-2014, 12:05 PM

The Center for Disease Control site provides info on decontamination if a water system fails or cannot be maintained, not in use, water system freezes, storm, poor water quality like large amounts of particulate, etc. Decontamination of a container such as a water tank requires higher concentrations of chlorine than what city water contains; treating water for drinking is different than decontamination. I think decontamination for a RV should also include the water hose. City water not only is chlorinated but also filtered, chlorine kills most things but not parasites like giardia and cryptosporidium which require filtration.
Giardia and Cryptosporidium in Drinking Water