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FWIW we always carry a pack of the cheapest supermarket own brand large plastic bottles of water, and we use this for all drinking purposes-tea, coffee, etc.
I then fill our 130 litre tank using the normal garden hose and this is used for all other purposes, saving all the hassle of special hoses etc.
Also when filling at home it is so much quicker to feed the hose through the window and fill via the large screw cap on top of the tank.
I know that people have views about travelling with a full tank but I think that fuel savings will be pretty minimal (mass travelling etc), and it saves a lot of trouble when arriving on site. 130 litres lasts well.
Paul
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I was apathetic but now I can´t be bothered.
"open all taps"...but..."make sure shower tap is turned off"
Confusing?
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You're right ! It should I suppose be turned on to let water into the shower but, from nasty experience of coming into the shower room to find all the towels and loo roll sodden, I tend to leave this off. It still seems to work when we need it. I'll make that clear in the article.
I've put one link to Outdoorbits in - not sure I ought to do two however !
G
Excellent piece of writing well done.
You have reminded me--- we have a drop down sink and we arrived on site and turns everything to on.
I could hear a funny noise and Ray said from under the van (he was checking something with a fellow camper who had a query about his van)
They started to get water dripping on them.
Yes the sink tap was on and water was pouring everywhere and going out through a floor air vent. whoops!!
Good job it was summer and we dried out ok.
Mavis
À tous mes amis du forum thankyou pour toutes vos pensées agréables et avec son amour derrière moi je lutterai contre mon conflit avec un esprit de postive et le triomphe
FWIW we always carry a pack of the cheapest supermarket own brand large plastic bottles of water, and we use this for all drinking purposes-tea, coffee, etc.
I then fill our 130 litre tank using the normal garden hose and this is used for all other purposes, saving all the hassle of special hoses etc.
Also when filling at home it is so much quicker to feed the hose through the window and fill via the large screw cap on top of the tank.
I know that people have views about travelling with a full tank but I think that fuel savings will be pretty minimal (mass travelling etc), and it saves a lot of trouble when arriving on site. 130 litres lasts well.
Paul
Hi Paul... I'm sure most people will, like you, discover their own short cuts and preferred methods as time goes on. It's hard to generalise about MHs however. Our first two had the tank in the bottom of the wardrobe and it would have been a right royal pain to get the hose to them.
I felt I ought to point out that there are concerns about the use of food grade hose only and, from this point on, people can do their own research and decide which route to take.
Again, I think it is worth pointing out that carrying 130 extra kilos when travelling might have effects on your fuel consumption so you can make your own mind up if that matters to you. For people who are close to their legal weight limit it might be a clincher.
Drinking water is a subject over which we've all argued. We tend to use tap water wherever we are but others buy it and that's fine, no problem. I passed on the hint about polythene milk bottles because they are free, easy to carry by the handle, and can be binned and replaced between trips.
We tend to turn off the shower while soaping / washing our dainty bodies, as this saves a considerable sup of water. This is particularly useful if staying in one spot for a few days as it increases the time needed between fills and the associated disruption of maybe having to move to fill . It also means that the waste tanks are not filled with clean water as these tend to have a lower capacity than the fresh water tanks.
Noel
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