Grey tank stopped up won't drain
we have always left our grey and black tank valves open as we are full timers [living at a campground 365/24-7] for past 4yrs. This problem of the grey tank getting stopped up only started last month...
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Grit dog wrote:. Do not do this,
Take the camper somewhere out in a field, open the gray valve and snake the line. Stand off to the side!
Depending on how much grease you’ve dumped down the sink over the years, could be a good layer of grease in the whole tank, like as tall as the drain pipe?
I’d go after the remaining grease probably 1 of 2 ways.
1. Figure out how to get a large quantity of boiling hot water into the tank. Quick drive to slosh it around. Drain in that field again.
2. Couple gallons of something like Zep industrial cleaner/ degreaser dumped into an empty tank. Drive to slosh, drain into a sewer preferably.
That field is ours or someones, land! or an absorption sewer system biologically destroyed with the in flux of grease and solvent. Please No Do Not Do It! in a small wastewater system.
If grease is the cause of your problem do the treatment at a municipal plant that has the bugs to eat it.
