Proper outside storage

valhalla360 wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
Do one better bypass the tank altogether.

Buy a garden hose bib valve like for on the side of a building, install the hose bib right through a wall to the outside.

Sure but I suggested including the tank as the OP indicated, he didn't have an existing route for the hose and didn't want to cut holes in the wall.

:R

Yes, OP indicated they didn't "want" to, but, in reality all other methods are a feeble attempt to get around the direct route and those work arounds all have potential pitfalls.

In my neck of the woods, I would not want to have water draining into any of my tanks which can be easily forgotten or missed when it comes time to winterize.

OP can buy a hose bib that looks like this..



or this..



Which has a mounting flange on the outside, one can easily drill a half inch hole, and run the pipe through the wall and use some acrylic latex caulking to seal the flange..

Alternately, one can drill through the floor and mount the same hose bib on the underside of the trailer and no harm to the trailer wall. This is the same basic principle of the water lines low drain points which also go through the floor and drain the water out of the lines for winter.

Through the floor drain could be left or removed and if removed a simple gob of caulking plugs the hole and no harm or fault to the side walls. Going through the floor, they could just run a piece of flexible plastic pipe through the floor and to the dehumidifier.

If you have ever run a dehumidifier for any substantial length of time, you would understand why running the condensate through your RV plumbing is not a good idea..

Every single dehumidifier I have ever had gets a slimy stringy build up in the condensate.. Makes a mess, builds up until you have a plugged line somewhere or the drain internally in the dehumdifier. Would not want to have that slime build up in a holding tank. When that slime dries out, it hardens like a rock.

I have had a few dehumidifiers with built in pumps (not because I wanted it but because that was all that was available), the pumps are a failure point, they too fall victim to that slime and get gummmed up.. Those have cleaning routines that require you to clean the pump ..

My recommendation is to try opening the windows and let nature work it out. For my basement, not an option, opening the door and a few windows it has would just bring in outside moist air which then condenses on the cooler basement walls..

Dehumidifiers have their place in life (like a cool basement in the summer), not so much in a RV though, but if it makes you feel happy to run one, have at it.