I have an enclosed water tank in my camper! Can anyone please tell me what I can do to clean it out? Obviously I can't drain it. Just wandering what you all do & if anyone else has an enclosed tank what do you do? Appreciate your advice ( as always)
I imagine there are many ways but mine follows: I drain the tank, then fill it to 25% (+-), add a teaspoon of bleach, fill to maximum, drive it around a bit, drain it again and refill the tank. Each on my tanks hold 90 litres. I also carry water purifying tablets - I don't know why but it makes me feel comfortable and I'm happy with that.
I know my method will not suit everyone out there but it suits me just fine.
I'm a bit anal when it comes to water, I use the tank water to cook with, wash up and shower but I take bottle water for drinking but that just me cos the tank water tastes fine.
I imagine there are many ways but mine follows: I drain the tank, then fill it to 25% (+-), add a teaspoon of bleach, fill to maximum, drive it around a bit, drain it again and refill the tank. Each on my tanks hold 90 litres. I also carry water purifying tablets - I don't know why but it makes me feel comfortable and I'm happy with that.
I know my method will not suit everyone out there but it suits me just fine.
I'm a bit anal when it comes to water, I use the tank water to cook with, wash up and shower but I take bottle water for drinking but that just me cos the tank water tastes fine.
I don't like drinking what I can't see, so we have a portable water filter and 2 x 10 liter food grade water containers to carry our drinking water. We fill up from town water supplies using the filter. We also fill the main tank using the filter just in case we have to drink it.
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Steve, Di & Ziggy We named our Motorhome "Roadworx" because on the road works "On The Road Again" Ford Transit with 302 Windsor V8 conversion, C4 Auto, 9 Inch Ford Diff All Lighting L.E.D., 260 Amp/h AGM, 530 Watt Solar + Kipor Backup Gen.
As for cleaning out the tank.... Red Cordial and the "Black & Gold" stuff is just fine. I chuck a 2lt bottle into the tank the fill it, leave overnight then keep flushing the tank til the water is clear (no red tinge). I'll do this if the tank hasn't had fresh water added for a couple of months.
HunnyBunny, if you have a hand pump you can disconnect the hose from the pump, add a temp joiner fitting to the hose and add some more hose to run out of the camper, then you could just syphon the water out of the tank.
-- Edited by madaboutled on Monday 2nd of January 2017 09:12:40 PM
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Steve, Di & Ziggy We named our Motorhome "Roadworx" because on the road works "On The Road Again" Ford Transit with 302 Windsor V8 conversion, C4 Auto, 9 Inch Ford Diff All Lighting L.E.D., 260 Amp/h AGM, 530 Watt Solar + Kipor Backup Gen.
You are asking how to clean a water tank, which can not be drained
Any water tank can be removed and fitted with a drain tap, which is one solution, but may be costly
Another solution is to use a siphon hose, to either manually siphon the water from your filler inlet, or connect the hose to a 12 volt vacuum pump, to siphon out the water
Depending on the system used to bring the water from the tank to the sink, (hand/foot/electric pump), you could empty your tank using this pump
Unfortunately using a siphon hose or pump, will not remove all the water I would be reluctant to use a tank, which I could not completely drain, as a drinking water tank
Find a plastics welder locally.
Take a drive round there.
He can cut a hole to suit and weld in Drain plug to suit.
Easy..
Probably weld a stiffener backing plate on it first.
