gray or black
I have never put anything but soapy water down the sink. I put every thing else down into the black tank. Anyone drain canned food juice into the sink? Wonder if I am taking it to far.
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- Use it like your sink at home with no garbage disposal. No Grease and as little food as possible. Small amounts will wash out. I always keep the grey water closed and flush it open it at the 3/4 full point.
- When I cook anything greasy I wipe out the pan with a paper towel to remove the majority of the grease before I wash it. When I fry anything (which is almost never) I pour the waste cooking oil into a refuse container and again wipe out any greasy film with a paper towel before I wash the utensil. My RV's former owner fried a lot and I know first hand the trouble careless grease and oil disposal can cause!
Steve rockhillmanor wrote:
2gypsies wrote:
The things we avoided putting in the gray tank were grease, food scraps and coffee grounds. We wipe the plates/pots quickly wipe our used napkins or used paper towels before they go in the dish water.
If you are one to hook up the sewer hose and leave your gray water valve open all the time you'll be able to see the greasy sludge left behind when you peek in that sewer hose. That same sludge would be in the bottom of your tank. Gray tanks can smell worse than black.
X2
Absolutely no food stuffs or grease down an RV sink. This is NOT your stick and bricks kitchen sink with a grease trap and sewer lines that go somewhere else!
Also pick up one of these for your sink.
How many homes have grease traps, we live in a house, not a restaurant.Old-Biscuit wrote:
What do you do at home?
RV isn't any different.
Don't make RVng so complicated.........enjoy it!
X2 some people way overthink things.- We are probably in the middle of the road on this one. The septic system on an RV is not the same as the SticknBrick, and anyone who says it is either has never actually spent much time RVing or didn't understand the OP question, or maybe both.
We don't use a screen in the bottom of our sinks, but that isn't a bad idea. We are careful and try not to let grease and large food pieces get down the drains.
I go through my regular flush cycle when dropping my black tank, followed by the two gray tanks. I will also close the gate valves to the black and one gray, leave one gray open, and use my Flush King to flush that gray out several times. Then I will reverse the two gate valves and flush the other gray tank out several times. On occasion we will use a gray tank additive to closed gray tanks also.
I just think you have to use some caution on what goes into the gray tanks and no matter what they should be flushed out once and awhile. - I use the tanks for what they were intended, human waste in the black, sink and shower runoff in the grey. Compared to us, you're taking it too far. But then many do.
Who cares what others do, it's your trailer, do what you want. - Even at our S&B we do not put ANY grease down the sink drain it goes down the toilet. Reason being 1) larger drain, 2) grease will congeal when it hits the cold water in the toilet form small gelled balls and then flush down with no problem. Got this from a plumber who said that if you must put grease down a drain do it with COLD water not hot. As to no food down the sink in the MH, we try to prevent this as much as possible without being anal about it. Food down the sink drain can and will cause the grey tank to stink as much if not worse then the black tank.
- When I first purchased my RV there was so much congealed grease on the floor of the grey water tank that it effectively sealed an 18" long crack located in the tank floor. That is it sealed it until I tried to actually store grey water in the tank rather than just letting it pass through to the drain. It didn't take much water pressure to breach the congealed grease seal and start the tank leaking. I've since replaced the tank.
Anyone who wants to dump grease down their drain, go ahead your plumber will appreciate the future work.
Steve - Gray tank, no solids. That is my only rule.
Old-Biscuit wrote:
What do you do at home?
RV isn't any different.
Don't make RVng so complicated.........enjoy it!
RV is very different from home. When is the last time you dumped separate tanks at home?
The drains pipes maybe the same but from that point on it is very different.
I avoid solids,grease and scraps in gray tank as feasible.
I'll add if you did not eat it don't put it in the black tank.Slownsy wrote:
No garbage go in garbage bins not sinks.
Frank.
Your garbage disposal connects to your garbage bins?
