Hookups at home

mountainrivers wrote:
Thanks! I usually go with the old saying that it's easier to do something and ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission.

Easy to say but it sure would be silly to waste the $$$ for a full electric, water, and sewer hookup at your home only to discover later that you're in violation of local bylaws. :S No one here on what is an international forum would have any idea or being able to advise you in any way as to whether bylaws in your local community would impact your plans or how strictly these bylaws may be enforced. If you want to do this it would make far more sense to put your $$ into a solution that if found to be in violation can still be used for other purposes.

I doubt any municipality would care about electric service to your RV as long as the installation meets code but I sure wouldn't go to the expense when I can simply dogbone my rig's main service cable and plug into a standard 15 amp drop in the garage which is just steps away. Since 20 amp service is much more common in the US than here in Canada there's no reason you couldn't simply use that and be even that much better off ... after all, there'll be times when you may have to use 20 amp service anyway when camping in a case where 30 or 50 amp service isn't available. Obviously in either case you'd have to manage your power use but is that really so difficult, especially when you're only using the rig to accommodate the occasional guest?

As for fresh water your rig is equipped with a fresh water holding tank for a reason ... so there's no "reason" to not also use it for it's intended purpose when the rig is parked at your home.

Many homes in the US are apparently built with an owner accessible sewer clean out somewhere on the property ... not so here in Canada so I instead T'd into house sewer stack (which in my case happened to be in the laundry room) and ran an ABS input line to the outside of the house where I installed an input ABS stack. I normally leave it capped but when I want to service my trailer's grey & black holding tanks I simply bayonet a FloJet Waste Macerator Pump on to the trailer's sewer outlet, connect a 50' 3/4" hose to the pump output, stick the far end of the hose into the house sewer intake stack, and let 'er rip. It's temporary, takes but minutes, doesn't affect the neighbours in any way, and isn't in violation of any local bylaws. The bonus - I never line up at a campground dump station as I always service my tanks at home using the macerator but because I carry at set of grey/black portable containers in the truck when camping and store the macerator in the trailer I always have the means to off load grey or black anytime, anywhere we may be camping without having to fool with a stinky slinky, heavy tote tank, or even move the trailer itself to the dump station as some apparently do. Pics start here for anyone interested.

Obviously you can choose whatever solution you think best but it's nevertheless true that the K.I.S.S. method is often the simplest and most cost effective solution. ;)