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Following on from the recent waste water hose tip, I thought that I would pass on my fresh water hose tip.
Most of us, I imagine, use a length of hose with which to fill up our vans with fresh water. (Other methods of fetching fresh water are available) But what size do you get?
Do you get a good long length of hose? This is fine if the tap is a long distance away but what if you are using a MH service point?
Do you get a short piece of hose? This is fine if using a MH service point but what if there is a fresh water tap just beyond your pitch?
You could always carry lots of difference lengths? This way you would have a hose for every eventuality. But you will also have a locker/garage full of hose.
No, the trick is to take a length of hose and cut it into 1/3 and 2/3, ie cut a 10ft length off a 30 ft hose (or similar portions).
When you want a short hose, use the 10ft length. When you want a medium length, use the 20ft length. If you need a long hose use a connector to connect the 10ft to the 20ft length.
This way you only use what you need and there's no need to unravel miles of hose for a simple 5 minutes top up.
Yep. I have the Heosafe filler, and it's wonderful. It's the best less-than-£20 you'll spend.
And I also have the 1/3 - 2/3 thing going on with the lay-flat hose too. The 2/3 bit is on a reel and the 1/3 bit is just rolled up on itself. I have a little joiner piece with which to link them together if I wish.
I rarely use hookup, so we just have the 25m cable in a fabric shopping bag
Yes i have 2 x 20m layflats and a 12.5m layflat for this very puropse. Takes hardly any room at all
phill
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As we never drink the water from our tank we use the Hozelock free standing 40m reel you just pull out what you need .
We used to also carry a spare cheap hose but they never wind up again , I threw so many away so we got a 2nd Hozelock 20m real from Tesco when they had them on offer for £16 if needed we can join the 2 reels together ………..great for aires and so fast and easy to wind back in.
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