Few Questions from this Summer

[Rich_D]

A few things that you good folk on here will probably be able to help with.

Returned a few weeks ago from a great trip to Disney World, but unfortunatly a few problems showed up

1) Water. All trip, main tap water (shore water) had an odd taste - like the antifreeze I use for winterizing. When we got to Disney, I did a total flush of the water system  - filled the onboard tank, ran the pump to make sure there was no residue in those lines, made sure the HW tank got a full change, and taste went away!
Re fitted the shore water, bad taste came back. This was consistant at all 5 sites we used.
Any ideas?

2) Grey Water. I'm used to the sink drain sometimes being slow, and can get it going fine. Normally I use a short (8") garden hose on the grey water draining into a jerry can. Now, as Disney have such a good setup, I wanted to use the sewer we had. Went out, bought a hose to sewer adaptor, hooked up garden hose - no flow.
Sat down for a think, installed a T and used my regular short hose as a vent (thinking there was an airlock) - still no flow.

Any ideas? i've read here many times about hooking up a garden hose, but never seems to work for me.

3) Coleman BBQ - the regulator went south on me, so no BBQ for vacation. Was very disappointed in the service from the Camping World in St Augustine - they were little or no help (got the impression they could not be bothered as I did not have a big RV) - they did not have a replcement regulator, and suggested I contact Coleman. What they failed to mention was that there was a Coleman Outlet store in the local vicinity! I found this out on the way home, when we were in Washington DC.. I was rather upset with them.

Then got home, went to put trailer back in the storage yard and found the TV electrics had gone south - seems to be a MELTED ground wire. hmmmmm more investigation required there.. 3 days later the front brakes went on the TV, as well as corroded coolant lines gave way, so all in all, i'm glad I got home!

Still, a wonderful trip, and would do again in a minute

[brainpause]

I can really only offer advice on question #2.

Was the open end of your vent at least sink level? If not, that might have been the problem.

Here is what we used on our popup. Worked VERY well. Parts at Lowes or Home Depot.

http://www.larryandhollycrockett.com/vent1.jpg

Larry

[He Ruide]

Rich.  I'm glad that you got home without all the TV problems.

A couple things to consider.  First did you taste the shore water to figure out if the taste was the incoming water?  I also didn't see where you had sanitize the water system.  Typically if you have a residual taste - a dilute solution of vinegar is the answer.  Finally, I do think you might want to invest in a water filter and see if this solves the residual taste issue.

Grey water - I'm not surprise that you got better flow with a short hose but ended up with a problem using a long garden hose.  Plus try and remember if the garden hose had any sort of an incline to get into the sewer.  This would cause a secondary trap.  Finally,  you mentioned that you added a "T" for venting.  If it wasn't a full volume flow "T" you are further reducing the resistance of the gray water flow through the valves.

I'm sorry to hear about your interaction with Camping World.  I've run into similar issue when I'm away from home and it only re-enforces the value of local dealers and stores.

Hope this helps.

Ruide

[chasd60]

Water around the Orlando area is nasty compared to what we have at home. It is loaded with stinky sulfur and tastes bad. We ended up using our water from our tank and filled water jugs with it.
 
 Real difference when you have a bottled Pepsi and then try a Pepsi made at a fountain in a cup, the water makes it taste nothing like the bottled version.


If the flavor is like the antifreeze and not related to the sulfur, you may want to do a bleach sanitizing with a vinegar flush afterwards.

[Rich_D]

Water around the Orlando area is nasty compared to what we have at home. It is loaded with stinky sulfur and tastes bad. We ended up using our water from our tank and filled water jugs with it.
 
 Real difference when you have a bottled Pepsi and then try a Pepsi made at a fountain in a cup, the water makes it taste nothing like the bottled version.


If the flavor is like the antifreeze and not related to the sulfur, you may want to do a bleach sanitizing with a vinegar flush afterwards.

Thanks for the replies - it coudl have been the local water - but I noticed it at the frist 2 stops, and it was still there in Orlando. The odd thing was when I filled the onboard tank and run the water with my pump - water tasted fine. It was only when using the shore water with no pump that the taste came back. i do have an inline filter, thought it may be the issue, but water from both sources goes through it.

I'll play with vinegar when I next get the trailer out!

[PattieAM]

As to the water issue, a cheap fix is the $25.00 blue filter you can put on your hose from the campground spigot to the camper.  It will filter out most yucky tastes as well as sediment (you never know when the CG has been working on waterlines throughout the park).  Are you using a white 'potable water' hose?  A garden hose will affect the taste of water.  You'd mentioned an antifreeze taste when connected to city water - could be that the antifreeze that was pumped through the lines for winterization was not purged from the lines (it takes gallons of water run through the lines to get rid of it).

As to drainage - have you checked the drain lines under the sink for possible kinks, dents first off?  Putting a 'T' vent on your drain near the trailer is a solution, but, remember any restrictions such as couplings will slow the flow.

Best wishes.

[kjrjr]

A few things that you good folk on here will probably be able to help with.

What they failed to mention was that there was a Coleman Outlet store in the local vicinity! I found this out on the way home, when we were in Washington DC.. I was rather upset with them.

Ready to be even angrier? I was at the St Augustine Camping World in mid July. The Coleman outlet is in the little outlet mall behind the CampinWorld store. You were literally walking distance from it when you were at CW. Ah Customer service. :rolleyes: