Toilet usage
So I just bought my first travel trailer, a 22' Jayco Jayflight and I have a question about toilet usage and boondocking. We are going on our first trip next weekend for two days and we want to be ab...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Keeping water in the toilet bowl is so that there is a VAPOR Barrier .....
Residential toilets have built in 'p' trap designed into bowl fixture.
RV toilets do not..straight gravity dump so water in the bowl does keep seal wet but is for keeping the stink from waste tank coming back up thru toilet
Simple.....
As for weight.....
If you need water to prevent stink, something is wrong with your vent. Water would prevent stink if you had it though.
I was just pointing out why one would want to keep a seal wet.
Totally agree with your comments about weights. But as we all know, a lot of people try to push the limits of those weights and say they'll just not carry water. Silly, but that's what a lot of people do. Also, you're dead on about frontal area vs weight for mpg. Try telling that to some people though.....
