When the water pump turns on by itself.

MitchF150 wrote:
Yeah, I know... I've been surprised by things on the road that the 'driveway' run did not show too over the last couple decades of doing this.

But, just think if you had been hooked up to city water... The toilet valve would have still failed, but other than water flowing from the bowl, no warning..

I hope all the folks that hook up to city water, turn it OFF when they leave the site for an extended period of time for the day (ie: day trip)..

I always turn off my pump before leaving the even an hour or the whole day.

I've seen 2 RV's in the camp ground with water coming out of the corners of the rig in my time... Turned off the city water for them and waited to tell them why I had to do that.. But it was kinda obvious when they got back.

Mitch

You beat me to it. The leaky toilet would have overflowed using city water, except it wouldn't have made any noise.

I always shut off the city water at camp when we leave for the day, just out of superstition (and my wife thinks I'm a dork). We never turn off the pump when we're boondocking though. It's irrational, but humans are weird that way. I think my justification is that the water pump puts out a predictable pressure, but the park water supply is a wild card even though we use a regulator.

(And my wife would find another reason to think I'm a dork even if I didn't turn off the city water.)