water taste

It sounds like the tank needs to be pressure drained and flushed. After each trip I blow out all the water and sanitize the tank.

koda55 wrote:
As someone has mentioned, when was the last time you sanitized you fresh water system? When you do it make sure you do not use your filter. I would also look at getting a new hose.

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This. You probably are tasting algae. Sanitize your system.

As an example, buy one of those 40 gallon water bladders that Camping World sells and fill it, then taste it. Yuk(Rubbery taste) .. Rinse it out with bleach and it tastes just like out of the faucet. No taste at all!

Same goes for the water tank on an RV. We always use the tank water, tastes just like home if you take care of it and use the proper RV hose to fill it, not the garden hose!

http://www.amazon.com/Berkey-BK4X2-BB-Stainless-Filtration-Elements/dp/B00CYW3EVO

As someone has mentioned, when was the last time you sanitized you fresh water system? When you do it make sure you do not use your filter. I would also look at getting a new hose.

Buy a Katadyn. I've had water in 17 countries and it all tastes good.
http://www.amazon.com/Katadyn-Vario-Multi-Water-Microfilter/dp/B000KUVVY4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430704953&sr=8-1&keywords=katadyn

If drinking from a hose was hazardous, I, and most of my school chums, would be dead long ago. We often drank from the garden hose, still do. Good hard country water from the ground, unspoiled by the water softener.

I worry more about the stuff that accumulates in the fresh water tank. I sanitize it with bleach, rinse and refill then enjoy the chlorine after taste my folks had in their city water.

What it is, is that some people are simply more sensitive to the taste a typical RV water hose imparts to the water from the vinyl it's usually made of. If anyone has ever tasted tea from a styrofoam cup, you'll understand how bad taste can be from the plastic molecules it picks up.

Valterra makes a "taste free" hose. Doesn't say what material it is but is says it's made from an inert material and not vinyl. Flex-Tech makes an RV water hose made from PVC and are available in 5/8" dia. (better flow) and are rated at 150 psi (higher than Valterra). Whatever hose you get, it needs to be listed for potable water only.

yes I have the white hose they sell . I guess I will keep buying the bottled water to lol thanks'

jfkmk wrote:
Do you use a potable water hose? They don't typically leave a taste.

X2 Also, we have started keeping our filter in the fridge between trips. (Our camper is plugged in at home, and we leave the fridge running.) That has made all the difference. Methinks some bugs grow in there between outings. I would recommend you start with a new filter and keep it refrigerated when not in use.