Camping and fishing for anyone can be a great experience
if that is what you like. But for this
article, I’m going to focus more on the camping issues one can face if you camp
with an RV. If you’re using a tent,
that’s OK, but this is more about a few things needing attention while you’re
using an RV.
Once you get your RV all set up, then you can just enjoy
all of its amenities and comforts during your camping time.
When you’re ready to break down and leave your camp site,
then getting ready is almost a reverse of what you had to do when you set
up. However, there are a few
exceptions. And as much as it’s not
such a glamorous topic, I’m going to inform you of how to make your departure a
little more complete.
Yes, I’m talking about emptying your grey and black water
tanks! The grey water comes from your
sinks and shower and you can only guess where the black water comes from.
Not every park has a sewer hookup at your site, but they
normally have a dump station where you can accomplish this not so great task.
I’m not exactly sure why one of those holding tanks are
called “black water” because when it’s being drained out it really looks more
like brown to me! I wonder why that is!
In any case, it seems that most RV’ers just hook up their
sewer hose directly to the outlet pipe under the RV and insert the outlet end
into the sewer hole. Then they open the
black water handle first, wait a few minutes, and then open the grey water
handle.
You can easily hear the fluid running out of those tanks,
right up to the point to where they are almost emptied.
It’s at that point when the guessing comes into play as
to rather the tank is empty or still has some liquid left. You almost have to lift the sewer hose out
of the draining end to see if your task is completed or not.
Not wanting to guess any longer, we decided to buy an RV
Dual Flush holding tank rinser to make our dumping job a lot easier.
You just connect it between your sewer line and the
connector pipe under your RV. When you
pull any one of the water handles, you get to see the liquid flowing until
there is no more. For me personally, it’s almost entertaining!
You can get real gross if you like and say things like
“there’s last nights burrito”.
Lucky for us, we have a water hose connector to our black
water tank, so we can actually see that all the nasty matter is completely
flushed out.
When you’re done emptying your tanks, you just connect
your water hose to the Dual Flush rinser, and it allows you to flush the tank
line and hose line without having to disconnect it. Of course you always use rubber gloves when performing this type
of task. Happy flushing!
