Water Filter Advise
The wife thinks she need and under the counter,canister type water filter. We use the camper 10 to 12 times a years ,with some full hook ups ,but mostly dry camping. I feel that if you are'nt using th...
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JBarca wrote:
Hi Fish,
In reviewing what you have been doing, consider these 4 things to help lower your odds of an infection of your water system. You are not doing real bad now, just these areas can help cover more conditions.
1.Review your sanitization method if it is enough to kill a heavy infection.
2.Drain the HW heater each trip. Get a valve setup on the drain port to make it quick and convenient.
3.Drain and remove the under the sink filter. What method is used to keep it from growing between camping trips?
4.Consider filtering CG water to keep food sources out of the camper. If filtering, figure out the filter technology you need for your situation and what it does to chlorine for the sources you use. If it reduces the chlorine to too low a level, work through that. Figure out how to control the filter from becoming a breading ground between camping trips. The filter can be a double edged sword, it can do a good job of keeping your camper clean, however not used right it can infect your camper.
If you made it this far in reading... Hope this helps
John
Hi John, been really busy lately and just now got caught up on this thread, thanks for the in depth reply, here do you find the time to help so many people like you do? You're a big help to a lotta people on here.
My water heater has an anode, it's a PITA to remove it everytime to drain it, is there something I can get to make draining it easier? Right now when I drain it I always have this thought in the back of my mind that there's water getting in the seam between the tank the the trim around it even though it seem well caulked, must be something I can do?
Guess I could drain/clean the filter after every trip, but I wish my housing had a drain on it, it's a little awkward unscrewing it where it is in the cabinet.
Filtering the water when filling is probly a good idea, so what's a good filter to use when filling that will filter the bad stuff but not the chlorine?
I'm not a big germ-o-phob like a lotta people, I don't use paper towel on the doors of the handles of the bathroom door at work, don't use hand sanitizer etc and I think overall I'm pretty healthy but maybe I could do a little more for the water system..?
Thanks
Will
