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laknox
Oct 07, 2014Nomad
Indianrock wrote:
Great suggestions, thanks! TWe have a 120 gallon propane tank hooked up so won't be skimping on the propane consumption.
This is a '99 Dutchmen 30RL. One thing I need to change soon is to route the sewer hose into the septic tank and leave it there. I was going to hook that up once a week as needed to dump, but the county probably would prefer it be "permanently" hooked up until we move into the house.
This would allow us to drain the gray tanks all the time. Its usually not recommended to let the black tank drain constantly, although I do have one of those flush elbows where I can hook up a water hose to flush the black tank from outside.
I do plan to buy enough aluminum foil, heat tape and "tube" insulation to completely wrap my water hose -- it is a hose to a faucet, not pvc line.
I think I'd like to find some 3 or four inch pvc to run most of the way to the septic clean out which is about 50 feet downhill from the trailer. So I'll be looking at home depot etc for an elbow that will screw into the septic cleanout. We're not using the onboard water tank at all.
x2 on a couple incandescent bulbs under the trailer for heat; just keep 'em away from the hay/straw bales! Also, you really should stay on a "normal" dump schedule. You leave =anything= trickling, and the hose/pipe will likely ice up and, pretty soon, might close completely. Better to have surges of > freezing water heading down the pipe than an icy trickle that can freeze quickly.
Lyle
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