My Lance camper has a fitted compartment on the side for the sewer hose that is about 16' deep. When I got the camper, this hose was missing. I need to find a sewer hose that, when compressed, will fit the compartment. The smallest hose I can find is 24' compressed. I called Lance directly and they don't have them and couldn't offer a solution. Weird. Anybody know where I can find a hose that is around 16' compressed or is there a way to make one? Anyone else encountered this problem?The hose I have now works fine but I'm forced to store it in the rear compartment and it takes up a ton of space. And we all know storage space on a camper is at a premium!Any suggestions are welcome!

lookatdirt, Are you saying that this compartment is 16 feet or 16 inches? My sewer hose compresses to about 3 feet but extends to 20 feet.

you should be able to cut enough off a stinky slinky to make it fit compressed.bumpy

Take a look at walmart... their sewer hoses are packed in that compressed length...You don't need the extra heavy hoses that many of the permant residents of trailer parks prefer.My Lance has sewer hose storage in the rear bumper

Most of the 10' hoses that I have used were 15" (inches) compressed.See the specs on this 15.5" compressed. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Camco-10-ft-Vinyl-Standard-RV-Sewer-Hose-39601/100128256Bob

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lookatdirt
Explorer
Aug 17, 2014
No, my TC is 8'6" so no overhang. The rear bumper is the one that came with the truck!
trailgranny50
Explorer
Aug 17, 2014
We had no place to store our hose except one side compartment, which was better suited to store other essentials so hubby got out one of his never used oversize fishing rod rubes and wedged it into the space between the camper floor and truck bumper. The sewer drain lines hold the one end in place and the tie down holds the other with enough slack to extract the hose. Had to do a little grinding on fitting in hose ends to get them to slide into the tube but works. We have no drop down on the back of our old so this works fine and holds lots of compressed hose.
Buzzcut1
Nomad II
Aug 16, 2014
Are you sure that there is not a hose compartment in the rear bumper? should be an access door with a coin fitting to open it on the left side. Mine holds 20' of hose
Farmerjon
Explorer
Aug 16, 2014
I carry a 10ft and a 20ft section and a few times have needed to connect them together. I carry the connectors to use each one separately but I also carry a connector to splice them together,it means taking off an end from each one to put the coupler in.
we use one of our 2 outside storage cabinets to keep that nasty stuff. I just stuff the stinky slinky ( I like that )And then shut the door on it. I feel like I'm in one of those scenes where somebody sits on the suitcase to get it shut.
Happy camping,
Jon
lookatdirt
Explorer
Aug 16, 2014
I wound up cutting the hose down to fit in the compartment with the black and grey outlet valves. I hope that 8' of hose is long enough! It would have been long enough the few times i've dumped in my vast 2 months of TC ownership.
lookatdirt
Explorer
Aug 12, 2014
I think I'm leaning towards Sugerhill's idea about the PVC. This way I can use carry a longer length of sewer hose in case I ever need it. I also like the idea of storing the gloves in the original hose compartment. That way all the gross stuff is isolated.
lookatdirt
Explorer
Aug 12, 2014
Wow! Thanks for all the good ideas. Appreciate all the responses. I'm really new to the TC thing, but you are all making it pretty easy.
joe_b_
Explorer II
Aug 12, 2014
My rear bumper storage was short also. I crawled under it and found a lag screw, put in by Lance,. When I removed the lag bolt it gave me the full width of the bumper for hose storage. I bought a section of plastic rain gutter and two end caps to hold my hose, which is about 30 ft long stretched out and compresses to fit in the rear bumper.
scottz
Explorer
Aug 12, 2014
Walmart, find the sewer hoses, buy one of the cheap ones on the top shelf. That is very similar to what came with the camper.
SugarHillCTD
Explorer
Aug 11, 2014
Our previous Lance 825 had that stupidly short hose compartment too.

I used to store my heavy rubber gloves in there. :R

Then I put together a 7' PVC storage tube with threaded caps from a plumbing store and attached it side-wards under the rear. I used "J" hooks attached to the stationery part of the rear jack legs.

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