When do you empty black tank on hookup?
Evenings, mornings, twice a day, every 2 days, - or just leave the shutter to sewer permanently open?
Sewer is prehistorical, Mexican style - hole in the ground with cement lid.
As I see it - leaving the shutter open, fumes from sewer will flow easily into tank. Besides, potential risk of "poop pyramid" build-up in a dry tank. One person trailer, didn't happen so far, but you never know...
There is no 15-20 gallons of water added after emptying it, like some people recommend - what water in desert, I have to pay for water truck to come once in a while.
I've come to emptying it in the morning and then in the evening. So solids are diluted with liquids and when shutter opens, it all runs happily down the pipe. Then close the shutter again. On a calm day I can smell it for a few minutes from sewer vent pipe 15 ft away, after emptying. That vent pipe (not my trailer tank vent) is 1ft above the ground. Luckily, it's just me on this sewer, so everything filters down into sand shortly after.
Oh yeah, and making a cross ;) of 2 strips of toilet paper in the bowl works like a charm - solids slip down with the paper, otherwise it sticks to this un-ergonomic plastic bowl.
Sewer is prehistorical, Mexican style - hole in the ground with cement lid.
As I see it - leaving the shutter open, fumes from sewer will flow easily into tank. Besides, potential risk of "poop pyramid" build-up in a dry tank. One person trailer, didn't happen so far, but you never know...
There is no 15-20 gallons of water added after emptying it, like some people recommend - what water in desert, I have to pay for water truck to come once in a while.
I've come to emptying it in the morning and then in the evening. So solids are diluted with liquids and when shutter opens, it all runs happily down the pipe. Then close the shutter again. On a calm day I can smell it for a few minutes from sewer vent pipe 15 ft away, after emptying. That vent pipe (not my trailer tank vent) is 1ft above the ground. Luckily, it's just me on this sewer, so everything filters down into sand shortly after.
Oh yeah, and making a cross ;) of 2 strips of toilet paper in the bowl works like a charm - solids slip down with the paper, otherwise it sticks to this un-ergonomic plastic bowl.
