black water tank maintenance newbie question
We have bought our first travel trailer. There are 3 of us, we don't plan on using the shower or going poo in the toilet. We will camp every 3 weeks or so for 2 nights. I am guessing we will not fill ...
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Hi Martina,
Your story sounds similar to ours. I tent camped a lot with the Scouting program and the wife with the Girl Scouts. When we started RV'ing we had a pop up. We did all the cooking outside and used the park shower houses and bath rooms. During good weather, we still cook outside to this day. I really enjoy cooking out. Only when winter camping will I only cook limited non greasy things inside. The bacon in the morning, I'm still outside even if it is below freezing.
The stink up the camper comment, this sounds like a response from someone who does not know the right process. Curious, was this an RV dealer or a private party you had the walk through with?
That said, a tip, your bathroom most likely has an exhaust fan, you can run the fan before OR after you flush the toilet. But "do not" run the exhaust fan while you are flushing. If the fan is powerful enough it can draw fumes from the tank. The flushing is only seconds, just remember to not run the fan at that time.
It took us a while to get use to doing no. 2 in the camper. Once you get past the first few times and see, this is not that bad your will be converted...
Heat in the tent... yes, I remember those days oh so well. Those hot summer 95F days and then it taking until 03:00AM to even get close to being cool enough in the tent to sleep. I enjoyed the tent days, but we "really" enjoy the camper days!!
Have a good camping season.
John
Your story sounds similar to ours. I tent camped a lot with the Scouting program and the wife with the Girl Scouts. When we started RV'ing we had a pop up. We did all the cooking outside and used the park shower houses and bath rooms. During good weather, we still cook outside to this day. I really enjoy cooking out. Only when winter camping will I only cook limited non greasy things inside. The bacon in the morning, I'm still outside even if it is below freezing.
The stink up the camper comment, this sounds like a response from someone who does not know the right process. Curious, was this an RV dealer or a private party you had the walk through with?
That said, a tip, your bathroom most likely has an exhaust fan, you can run the fan before OR after you flush the toilet. But "do not" run the exhaust fan while you are flushing. If the fan is powerful enough it can draw fumes from the tank. The flushing is only seconds, just remember to not run the fan at that time.
It took us a while to get use to doing no. 2 in the camper. Once you get past the first few times and see, this is not that bad your will be converted...
Heat in the tent... yes, I remember those days oh so well. Those hot summer 95F days and then it taking until 03:00AM to even get close to being cool enough in the tent to sleep. I enjoyed the tent days, but we "really" enjoy the camper days!!
Have a good camping season.
John
