Algae in hose

jdog wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Swap hoses with your neighbors.........

With or with out the neighbors knowledge?

Quietly :B

Then next week ask them if they have an algae problem

Just read my own posts. I made some sentences so long you may run out of breath reading them.
Appologies

bleach

Ask the neighbors what they are doing OR not doing.

Is water being supplied via a well?

Sanitize the supply hose by pouring bleach in it....connect ends together and then slosh the bleach around.

Vinyl etc have pores. If you have algae in them get new ones. Bleach will surpress it but it will come back.
You need a filter from the faucet to RV. A 10 inch whole house canister will handle a seemingly infinite number and kinds of filter cartridges including ceramic and carbon bloc seperate or as one.. You can get hose adapters at Lowes. The one or two from CW and others may handle the common ten inch filter too but I haven't checked. The one CW sells with a blue cartridge will do fine.
Sounds like you have well water. We put a Westinghouse whole house filter, in the well house. GE and others work just as well. The GE has aa remote alert to when it needs changing.

We have had this only once and it was also at a place where the water pressure dropped down to 20 psi periodically throughout the day. If you are using any type of water filter, open that up and take a look. Ours was disgusting. Throw the filter away - bleach the inside of the filter canister and install a new filter. Then sanitize all of your incoming lines with bleach ( pour some inside the hose then turn faucets on until bleach water mixture comes thru. Do not run this thru the filter. Let sit for a few hours in the hose, lines and faucets. Then reconnect the filter, water and run water until no longer smells of bleach - don't forget - resanatize your fresh water tank too. We did all this and it's been 3 mo now and no further problem. P.S. - we drained our water heater also, but did not put bleach thru that.

Has anyone ever pulled the cap of their well and taken a look? Algae abounds!

When hooking up at any park we always spray the water hydrant and spray a few shots in our hose. We also spray a few shots in the other end of the hose before the filters. Only once did we have any algae and the was one of those screen washers in a "y" connections. About every 3-4 months I put some bleach in all our hoses and slosh it back and forth a few times. Then rum water through it to take out the bleach taste. We are full timers and our hoses are used almost every day. About one a year we replace our hoses.

Daytona,
I had a bad problem with mine that I had wrapped in insulation as you did. When i finally pulled the inslation off the hose was covered in NASTY mold and stuff. Not sure why, but replaced hose and no more problem.

The problem with wells is sediment. Every time it rains stuff filters down from the surface. Some places it is better like at the foot of mountains where there are sinks on top lots of leaf litter and lots of sand stone and limestone and so forth.
Our water tasted great but had some sediment and lime. Mama's former neighbors had us bring well waater every time we went to Mom and Dad's.
However if water from the well was in the hose the sun and the sediment got together and we had algae coat the walls of the hose. We had a one inch fire hose that was orange. I had a 10 hp three stage pump and big tank and ran 90lbs pressure great volume and pressure.
Installed the Westinghouse 10 inch filter and it cleared up the problems of sediment and some lime. Some lime is larger flakes, in suspension but aa whole lot can be in solution. We still ended up having to replace lower water heater elements often. But the showers and sink and sprayer and everything else did not have lime scale. they make 20 inch cannister which is simply the ten inch stretched. Have to buy them on line apparently. They have a ceramic with carbon block and silver, in filter but it is expensive, on line. Silver is important as it kills bacteria. The filter has a 1 micron absolute capability. I don't remember flow rates which is important but considerin two ten inc cannisters on this house or a twenty inch if I can find filters conveniently. i tried to change our fiter every month but it didn't make much change in pressure if I left it 2 months or 3. we have city water now and it is terrible. The water in the jacuzzi looks blue after just a few inches. I'm not sure what all is in it except for chlorine.