"White" Hose gets Kink and is Hard to Handle

I use the white stiffy ones at home and leave them there.

On the road I use a compact roll-up fabric style hose. (Handy-Hose is mine). I accept that they are not as sturdy as the standard hoses, but space is at a premium in my RT, and these fit very well.

I always coil my hose in the same direction. My grandpa said coil a hose clockwise every time to avoid kinks.

When buying a hose to drink from just be sure it does not say "Made in China", as most of the hoses in the cut-rate stores are. The simple fact that it is white is no guarantee that it is safe to drink from. Any material coming from any Asian country is suspect to me. There have been too many examples brought to light about the unscrupulous manufacturing methods and advertising untruths by companies operating there.
Buy American!

Some of the springy hose's are safe. Check RV stores. I was taught to pour a bleach solution into the hose, connect the ends and let it sit for a few hours. Then flush it well. I used to do that periodically as well as cleaning the holding tank.

Thanks for your responses - will take a trip to the hardware store.

I threw out all I knew about the safety of hoses the first time I stayed in Florida.

I went to use the potable water hose at a friends where I was parked. Green specs came out. The owner said yup, that's what happens to the "inside" of a hose left outside in the sun. GREEN MOLD.

I cut open my hose that I had sitting outside from spigot to tank. The entire inside of the hose was coated with green slimy mold. Google it, it's not good. Yet another reason I don't drink from an enclosed holding tank that takes on the ambient temperature of the outside air for water.

lucytravel12 wrote:
I thought we were supposed to have a special RV "White" hose - can we just buy any decent hose?

With any hose, if it's left out baking in the sun with water in it, the first water to come in will smell of hose. The white hoses just have less smell.

Personally I use my tank almost 100%, so no stinky hose water.

Go to Walmart, to the RV section and pick up one of their white hoses marked "for Drinking water". Get one no more than 25 feet, as the longer it is the harder it is to handle. After each use, drain it as you coil it back up, there is a blue stripe that shows how it should be coiled. After draining and coiling, attach the two ends together to keep bugs and critters out, then just store it in one of your bins. I have a "Y" connector and a regulator on the end that attaches to the faucet, and that stays on the hose all the time.

I have one of the coiled, springy hoses. It says Not Safe For Drinking Water, and I do drink the tap water. Does it really make a big difference???

An easy answer is the coiled springy type. We have used one for years. Never kinks, coils itself and takes up little room. If you park in one spot for the summer it might not be as convenient as it does not lay flat on the ground.