Routine fresh water tank maintenance
We have new 2015 Navion IQ 24G class C RV. This is our first RV. We will travel 2-5 day trips & will hook up to city water at RV parks. I'm interested to know best routine to ensure water is fresh / s...
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Every time we leave home on a trip we fill the fresh water tank. I put the filling end of the white colored potable-water-only hose into the gravity-fill outlet on the motorhome first. Next the other end of this hose gets screwed onto a hose bib in the laundry room, but before I screw it onto this hose bib I carefully hold up the end of the hose and dump about 1 1/2 ounces of chlorine into the end of the hose for each 10 gallons of fresh water I expect to put into the RV's fresh water tank (for us this works out to 6 ounces of chlorine into the end of the hose if our 40 gallon RV's fresh water tank is empty to begin with). This works great to sanitize the entire RV fresh water system every time we leave home.
This is all we do to keep the entire RV fresh water system sanitized as many times a year as we take individual trips. We have a water filter system in the RV located in the system just before the RV's kitchen sink faucet to remove odors, tastes, and some sediment from any water we use for drinking and cooking - it removes the chlorine odor and taste from our sanitized home water fillups plus helps additionally purify any other water we add to the freshwater tank while on trips. We of course make sure to fill our fresh water tank with only potable water while on RV trips ... this takes some being careful to ensure that the water is always potable.
This is all we do to keep the entire RV fresh water system sanitized as many times a year as we take individual trips. We have a water filter system in the RV located in the system just before the RV's kitchen sink faucet to remove odors, tastes, and some sediment from any water we use for drinking and cooking - it removes the chlorine odor and taste from our sanitized home water fillups plus helps additionally purify any other water we add to the freshwater tank while on trips. We of course make sure to fill our fresh water tank with only potable water while on RV trips ... this takes some being careful to ensure that the water is always potable.
