Black Tank & Toilet Paper
So I’m just wondering what others think about this. A camp host told me today that she does not put toilet paper in the toilet because it causes faulty sensor readings, sticks to the walls of the blac...
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paulcardoza wrote:
LOL!!!! Sounds like you've turned the simple task of dumping tanks into a 6 - 12 hour ordeal, depending on how many refills and soaks are required! Unbelievable..........
When you plan it so that you dump the tanks in the morning and top them off before leaving for most of the day, it's easy. My black tank is 40 gal & gray tank is 35 gal. If they were larger capacity tanks I think this would be a different story.
My black tank takes 5 minutes to fill (from the toilet) when empty, the gray tank takes 15 minutes to fill (from the kitchen sink) when empty. I use an egg timer on them. The total time it takes me to dump and reset for the 2nd dump is less than 30 minutes. I've seen Rvers stand outside in the rain, rinsing their tanks for 30 minutes while watching the water run through the clear plastic adapter on their sewer outlet. Doing that would bore the heck out of me. I can spend that 20 minutes cleaning, watching TV, surfing the Interweb. Then come back at the end of the day (after shopping or doing the tourist thing) and in 2 minutes of dumping will have clean tanks.
I have friends in a 5er, who are actually here in the park, behind me, in the next lane. They were in AZ last winter and had a larger poo pyramid that blocked their sewer outlet. A septic service roto-rooter'd the tank to clear the clog. They told my friends that they do this to a lot of RVs because they have found that in many RVs the factory installed rinsers are not installed in the optimum location on the tank to provide a thorough rinsing - thus leaving unrinsed areas in the tank that promote poo pyramid formation. They recommended to my friends that in their case they should abandon the rinser in the water bay and use the "top off, flush, refill, repeat" method.
This reinforced for me what Cruise America printed for dump instructions in its Renter Assistance Guide. So what if it is low-tech and simple. It's effective and it works - in my MH. After 2 and a half years using the "top off, flush, refill, repeat" method my black tank is 100% worry free.
You may think my method is a lot of extra work. I'm OK with that. What works for me may not work for you or anyone else. I can only share my solution.
