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winesalot
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Jun 17, 2020

Venting Indoors

Hey folks. First post here and it's not a pleasant one.

The wife and I are building a 10,000 sqft steel building that will house a production winery, a tasting room, and a small 3 bedroom residence. We have the building weathered in so we moved our 34 ft Alpenlite 5th wheel in to the space where the residence will be built while we finish the business portion of the structure. I hooked the RV's sewer hose up to one of the toilet drains in the building and we are dumping black and gray water in to our building's septic system that way. All is well except we are struggling with the trailer's black water tank vent stinking up the buildings air space. Especially when the wind is blowing outside. I would love to hear some ideas on how to stop this as, in my wife's word, we are tired of living in what smells like a porta-potty. Any great ideas?
  • x2 on all other drains being capped and traps filled with water.
    extend rv vent to outside. I would just use some cheap light weight dryer vent hose.
  • Are you sure that it is the RV vent and not another building drain pipe which is open and allowing fumes to come back into the building?
  • Use the black tank flush often, add one if needed. keep the tank valves closed except for the brief time when dumping. Use plenty of odor preventing chemicals. Other than that, extend the vent outside as stated above.
  • I would use a 1.5" PVC pipe from the RV black tank vent to outside the building. Yes you will need to drill a hole in the building wall or roof.
  • jdc1's avatar
    jdc1
    Explorer II
    Get up on the RV roof and extend the ABS pipe thought the building roof. Don't even need to glue the pipe, just piece it together.

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