Blackwater tank
Hello all, new here and got some bad advice to keep my black water tank open constantly while hooked up at campground. Now I know otherwise. What can I do to get the contents of the tank broken up to ...
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DutchmenSport wrote:ksg5000 wrote:
If your not in a hurry .. go down to any hardware store a buy a bottle of septic tank cleaner. Dump the contents into the holding tank and fill it to the top with water ... wait a week or two and dump. It's not quick but it's easy.
This was going to be my suggestion. Fill your tank enough that water covers the bottom and everything that's built up. Get a box of Rid-X (for septic tanks) and dump in. Let it sit. Rid-x is a yeast (an emzine eater). It's important that it sit's and eats everything in it's path and decomposes it. So it may take a while, but, as stated above, very easy. After a week or so, rinse, rinse, rinse, and flush everything out.
If not Rid-X any emzine eater made to clean pipes will work too. It just has to sit!
This will work, if traveling a lot keep using the ice cube trick.
Something to think about, keep all valves shut! Then when draining, drain black tank first, then galley (if separate) , then grey tank, if your hose has a nice slope to the drain your stinky slinky Will be clean,
