GREY WATER HOLDING TANK TREATMENT
PROBLEM: Our galley grey water holding tank has developed a mild odor. We would like to arrest the problem before it gets out of hand. QUESTION: Can you use DOMETIC Premium Holding Tank Treat...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
As mentioned, you should not have black or grey odors in your RV for any reason. If you do you need to find the source of the problem. If you want to make your dumping experience a bit less smelly I like the Happy Camper brand as well but only use it if I am not going to be able to empty for a couple of weeks.
Oh yes you can. The source in the gray is foods stuffs, grease etc. add that to water in a closed tank and it DOES smell.
RV in any of the warmer southern states and 'not' dump everyday? That will smell also. When I am in Florida and do not have hook ups and wait till it's full to dump? I have to add TWO bottles of chems to keep the smell down and even that sometimes does not help.
When you flush your RV toilet it is an OPEN straight shot to the black tank. Have that tank filled with raw sewage for more than a day, AND add hot temperatures outside and it WILL smell.
Your residential toilet has a p-trap that fills with water to prevent sewer gas from entering you house.
The RV toilet does NOT have a p-trap. That toilet flap opens to flush and sewer gas from a full non-treated black tank DOES enter your RV. So every time you flush that blade is open and letting sewer gas and bacteria into your MH.
Push the pedal and hold the flap open and shine a flashlight down, you will see it is a direct shot. This is also how some if gauges are not working look to see how far up the tank is filled.
