How we dewinterize our travel trailer
So we dewinterized a few weeks ago before our trip to Charleston and just got around to editing the video. Here's a quick video of how we do it if you're interested. https://youtu.be/gtME3b-q7W8 ...
Forum Discussion
mgirardo wrote:DrewE wrote:
Am I the only person who sometimes fills the tea kettle with hot tap water to reduce the time it takes for it to boil?
If you do, you shouldn't. This is from the CDC:In all situations, drink or cook only with water that comes out of the tap cold. Water that comes out of the tap warm or hot can contain much higher levels of lead. Boiling this water will NOT reduce the amount of lead in your water
Taken from this page: http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm.
-Michael
That page only deals with the situation where you have some problems with lead in the water. In an RV, there's basically nothing in the plumbing system that would leach lead: not the water heater, and certainly not the PEX plumbing or fittings. Some brass fixtures do have a bit of lead in the brass, but at least my RV fixtures have practically no metal of any sort in them, being the lightest and cheapest they could get away with. Water flowing through a faucet has pretty much no chance of leaching lead anyhow since it's not sitting there.
Plumbing in modern houses likewise has little or no chance of lead contamination. Lead/tin solder has been essentially banned for use in potable water systems since 1986, so houses that are newer than twenty years old should have basically no lead in the plumbing. Older houses may or may not have lead/tin solder in copper plumbing.
