Do you bleach / santize your hot water tank?
I've always just done the cold water system. And only every few years at that since I don't drink it. I had read someone bleached the hot water tank too. What do you recommend?
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Captain_Happy wrote:
If your using city water, why are you worried about sanitizing your water system? It's already in the water your using.DAH
You home is a constant free flowing system. Bleach is added at the water treatment plant to bring all microbes within standard. By the time it reaches your house all you have is the smell of bleach. Not a level of bleach high enough to kill bacteria when used to fill a holding tank or to kill bacteria from CG well water.
You RV is NOT a free lowing water source it is a "plastic" "holding" tank subjected to bacteria bloom because plastic is porous. The RV water holding tank also takes on the ambient temperature of the outside. The warmer it is outside the better of a petrie dish it becomes for bacteria build up.
I sanitize often. Bleach in tank and run thru all of RV including the hot water heater. I do not drink or cook with RV water.
