Prudence or Paranoia?
I shut off my water to the TT every time we leave. I just don't trust the system to hold, and I certainly don't want to clean up a mess when I return. Is this unwarranted paranoia, or is it prudence? ...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:
If I had a rig that couldn't survive/withstand ordinary water pressure in its plumbing, I'd fix it.
ALL RV's are plumbed with plastic tubing with plex fittings. It's NOT your house 'pipe' plumbing by ANY means! And the cost of the coach does not change they way in which they are plumbed.
It's designed to fail. Can only stand a certain amount of pressure. And if you ever really looked at it all within any RV it's a spaghetti platter of tubing and multiple crimped connections at every turn. Installed in an assembly line fashion by hand.
The law of averages with that many connections says they will leak. I choose not to increase those numbers in my coach. Flipping a switch on a HTW heater does not take a chunk out of my life nor does reaching down and shutting off the water valve at the site on my way out. They don't sell RV water pressure regulators for their health.
BTW: It doesn't take hours to cause water damage in an RV, it takes minutes to soak thru a carpet into cheap wall paneling, plywood, and particle board, and mold seemingly appearing before the days end.
When you full time you are out there in CG's 365 days a year. We see way more of these water leaks than the average weekend, vacation RV'er. While most have never seen it happen, don't think it will ever happen to them.....the full timer can tell you about at least 4 or 5 that they see 'a year'. That is why you see half of the responses being "PROACTIVE" not paranoid. It's from experience.
I'd rather have my MH burn to the ground, before I'd want water damage to it. It's costly and you never can really get all the moisture out.
