Leave water on ?
Hello all. I am a newbie to owning a travel trailer. I have not used it yet. I searched the forum and could not find this. Can someone answer? My trailer has a fresh water and potable water inlet. The...
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ksg5000 wrote:
RV's don't recover well from water damage - if one of those many pipe fitting in your rig breaks when you hooked to shore power you have a small window of time to turn off the water tap. If your not there your SOL --- end of story.
As stated in post above yours......water ran for hours/hours
NO......I repeat NO electrical issues
NO damage to subfloor in living room kitchen....did cause damage to large slide out floor because I missed mopping up water in one corner and 2 days later found soft/swelling floor which required new floor in slide.
Slide floor would have been OK if I had not missed the pool in corner
Otherwise...new linoleum in kitchen and new carpet in living room
(Majority of repair bill was removal of slide/removal of floor, installation of new floor and installing slide----thank you National Interstate for coverage!!!)
Now IF I had not addressed the flooding and it had sat for couple days.......YES lots more damage would have occurred
Water can KILL an RV.
