Finishing up a bunch of maintenance on the 8 year old 5ver. Last thing was to get it washed. While up on the roof washing noticed all 3 plumbing vent caps broken and really deteriorated bad. Just the caps are rotted, bases seem OK. Went right on to Amazon and ordered a 3 pack of the Camco replace all plumbing vent kit. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IOXKA3W/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I'm just going to use the caps and keep the base in case I ever need to replace the whole vent.Question ---- It will take up to 10 days to get them delivered and we have the possibility of some thunder showers coming in. If a substantial amount of rain goes into the now open pipe does it all just go into the gray or black holding tank or is there something else I don't know about that could cause damage?

Only if your holding tanks are absolutely full when it rains. Otherwise, it would probably have to rain 75" to get enough down that little 1-1/4" pipe - then you're going to have a lot of other problems to worry about.Bill

Trackrig wrote:Only if your holding tanks are absolutely full when it rains. Otherwise, it would probably have to rain 75" to get enough down that little 1-1/4" pipe - then you're going to have a lot of other problems to worry about.BillJust thought one vent may be for something other than plumbing like refrigerator vent or such.

Do you have attic vents? Mushroom shaped caps and about twice the diameter of the plumbing vents? I replaced those this year as the old ones were chalky and starting to deteriorate.

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ford-willy

Explorer

Aug 24, 2016

Plumbing Vent Caps On Roof --- All Sun Broken & Ruined

Finishing up a bunch of maintenance on the 8 year old 5ver. Last thing was to get it washed. While up on the roof washing noticed all 3 plumbing vent caps broken and really deteriorated bad. Just the caps are rotted, bases seem OK. Went right on to Amazon and ordered a 3 pack of the Camco replace all plumbing vent kit. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IOXKA3W/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I'm just going to use the caps and keep the base in case I ever need to replace the whole vent.

Question ---- It will take up to 10 days to get them delivered and we have the possibility of some thunder showers coming in. If a substantial amount of rain goes into the now open pipe does it all just go into the gray or black holding tank or is there something else I don't know about that could cause damage?

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BB_TX
Nomad
Aug 25, 2016
Do you have attic vents? Mushroom shaped caps and about twice the diameter of the plumbing vents? I replaced those this year as the old ones were chalky and starting to deteriorate.
ford-willy
Explorer
Aug 25, 2016
Trackrig wrote:
Only if your holding tanks are absolutely full when it rains. Otherwise, it would probably have to rain 75" to get enough down that little 1-1/4" pipe - then you're going to have a lot of other problems to worry about.

Bill

Just thought one vent may be for something other than plumbing like refrigerator vent or such.
ford-willy
Explorer
Aug 25, 2016
2oldman wrote:
link doesn't work.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IOXKA3W/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Try this link
2oldman
Explorer II
Aug 24, 2016
link doesn't work.
Trackrig
Explorer II
Aug 24, 2016
Only if your holding tanks are absolutely full when it rains. Otherwise, it would probably have to rain 75" to get enough down that little 1-1/4" pipe - then you're going to have a lot of other problems to worry about.

Bill