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neverrememberit

With apologies for repeating my text from an earlier thread, but since like the water my text had BO and nobody responded I thought I'd start again!

My problem on the van I've just purchased is the smell. The tea after boiling was fine, didn't notice a thing, but when I went to wash my face the smell was awful.

I have put my nose in the tank and that's fine, so I think I've got manky pipework. I could do the Milton thing no problems, but does Truma have metal parts in contact with the water? (Earlier thread suggests it corrodes metal parts, but how quickly?)

Thanks

neilandsue

Hi John,

Milton should be ok to use as the Truma boiler is stainless steel. Just flush the system well with fresh water.

Regards,

Neil

Grizzly

John..

Are you sure it is the water that smells ? Could the smell be coming up the drain ? The fact that the water tastes OK seems to point to that.

Was the smell there from purchase ? Have you -or the previous owner- left water in the waste tank ?

We notice that leaving water in the waste tank - even a small amount - between trips results in a terrible pong. The water can't be so dirty as we wipe crockery before washing it and don't drain veg or rice etc into the sink. Nevertheless it reeks.

Simply rinsing it through with lots of clean water seems to work. While we are away I sometimes make up a jug of warm (not boiling) water plus a dollop of biological washing powder and put that down the kitchen and bathroom drains. Driving around with that seems to clean and deoderise the tank.

We've not, touch wood, found it necessary to use Milton.

G

neverrememberit

kands · Account Deactivated

Hi John
Don't waste your money on Miltons (unless you want the street cred....), just pour about half a litre of bleach into your fresh water tank and another half litre into your waste tank. Fill both tanks up with water, go for a quick drive of about 10 miles, upon return dump the waste tank, flush the fresh water tank through to the waste tank and then dump it to drain again.
Refill the fresh tank with fresh water and pump it through a couple of times to get the bleach out and all should be well.
Miltons is a very dilute bleach formula (about 2%) and is hugely expensive by comparison and by loading both tanks and driving around, the agitation will get the bleach into all the corners and round the bends in the pipework. Flushing through a couple of times in usually adequate to get rid of the bleach taste / smell and if not do it again.....

Good luck mate and let us know how you get on

Keith

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