mgirardo wrote:
Running off the pump is a good solution if you don't use much water, but for us, it would be a major pain. Even with a 500 gallon fresh water tank it would be a major pain. We use about 10,000 - 12,000 gallons of water a month at our sticks and bricks. I imagine we probably use 5,000 - 6,000 gallons a water per month at our seasonal site. Even with a 500 gallon fresh water tank, we'd be filling the tank 2 - 3 times per week. With our 40 gallon tank we'd be filling it several times a day.
Not sure what you are doing at the house but assuming 2 - 20gal showers and 20 gal for dishes and minor other uses per day...that works out to around 900gal per month in the RV.
That's pretty heavy water usage by RVing standards.
Also, with a 100 gallons total waste tanks (probably a high estimate with only 40gal fresh water), your 6,000gal assumption would have you going out to drain the waste tanks twice a day anyway (more often if most is going into a one waste tank). Of course if you leave your waste valves open, you wouldn't fill the waste tanks in any case.
This also doesn't help if a fresh water line splits and is slowly spitting out water for hours or days while hidden inside a wall.
