Questions and doubts about Flojet

profdant139 wrote:
We have a sewer cleanout next to our house, about 40 feet from the trailer's black water valve. The cleanout is essentially level with the trailer -- maybe a little downhill from the trailer, but not much. Several years ago, we tried the Sewer Solution -- it exploded due to back pressure. Not pretty. (Turns out that the hose run was just a little bit too long for the components . . . )


Thanks in advance for your advice!!

Forget those devices and let gravity do it's job.

Drain plumbing typically is set at 1/4" drop for every foot.

You only need 10" over the 40ft to get things to work!

I am using well over 60ft of stinky slinky although my RV sits about 6ft higher than my septic clean out so I don't have any issue with gravity.

I bought 3 extra 20ft stinky slinkies to keep at home and outfitted them with bayonet connectors, makes it easy to connect and disconnect.

In your case, you could simply park your RV on some blocking (think like multiple 2x10s screwed together with an angle cut to ease the tires.

Don't have to get full 10", even 6 inches will be plenty to get thinks flowing.

Cleanup is not hard and no issues of a mechanical breakdown in mid use!