Recently when I've opened the top over the sink there's been a stale smell.
Today I'm going to be sanitizing our freshwater tank our black water tank and
a gray water tank with two very simple ingredients. Hi I'm Randi and this is my
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the subscribe button below so we can adventure together. I started to notice
just a little bit of a funky kind of stale smell when I opened the cover of
our sink. It's not a bad smell but it is a little unpleasant. I've also noticed a
little bit of a stale smell in the bathroom. So today we're gonna do
something about this. To get the job done and sanitize our freshwater tank our
grey water tank and our black water tank we're gonna be using regular
household white vinegar and bleach. We are actually going to be park hopping
today because we're going to use bleach and we're gonna use vinegar and then
have all the slosh around as we're going from one park to the next park. Therefore,
cleaning and sanitizing all of our tanks. We are going to be using bleach to
sanitize the grey and black water tanks and we're gonna be using the vinegar to
sanitize the freshwater tank. Our first step is we're going to completely fill
our fresh water tank with water. We have a 20 gallon fresh water tank so we're
going to completely fill that with water and our grey water tank is 30 gallons
and our black water tank is 9 gallons so we're gonna take that 20 gallons of
fresh water and we're gonna put 15 gallons of that fresh water into our
grey tank. And then we're gonna put about 4 or 5 gallons into the black water tank.
The freshwater tank is full. Now that our freshwater tank is full we're gonna
run that water into the grey and into our black tanks. Because we're just doing
the fresh water system we're gonna bypass the hot water tank. We've turned
the valves so that we are going to be bypassing the water heater. To get the
water flowing we're gonna turn on our water pump.
Now that the freshwater tank is full we're going to turn on the faucet on the
kitchen sink and let this water run into the grey tank. We want to monitor this so
that we can watch and make sure we get about 15 gallons into the grey tank and
about four or five into the black water tank. Next I'm going to add a quarter cup
of bleach into the grey water tanks while the rest of the water is running
through.
Next we're going to take the remaining water from the freshwater tank and put
it into our black water tank. To the black water tank I'm going to now add a
little less than an eighth of a cup of bleach. We've now added the bleach and
all of the water to the black water tank. Now we're going to refill our freshwater
tank again with new freshwater. Next I'm going to add about four cups of vinegar
to the freshwater tank. We're putting good old-fashioned vinegar into the
freshwater tank to sanitize it.
Imentioned in the beginning that we're park hopping. That's because we filled
our black-and-grey tanks with water and bleach and our freshwater tank with
water and vinegar now as we're driving down the road it's gonna be sloshing
around and cleaning the tanks as we're driving down the road. The next park
we're headed to is about an hour away and the further the better. The more
slashing you can get in the cleaner your tank will get. Unto park number two. The
bumpier the road the better. Why do dogs love having their head out the
window so much?
We stopped to get some lunch...
home of the broasted chicken.
We're getting close to our second park and I wanted to mention the reason we're
choosing a park that's got water hookups, is so that we can easily drain the tanks a
couple of times. This will make it more convenient for us blushing more water
through and getting rid of that bleach and the vinegar. There's the campground. We're going to be
staying at Nelson's Landing RV Park in Nelson
Wisconsin. We're here at the second park and as I mentioned we chose this park
because it's got water hookups. Now we're going to empty our black tank. All
we have in our black tank right now is the water and bleach, but now we're going
to empty the grey tank.
We're gonna turn our water pump back on. Next we're gonna run water to the grey
tank again to get all of the water that was in the fresh tank that had been
occurred in it to funnel through and go down the drain to the grey tank. Also, flush
water down from the fresh tank to the black tank. It looks like the fresh tank
is empty. Now we're going to refill our freshwater tank again with new fresh
water. So we're gonna fill up our tank with about five gallons of water and
then go turn it on inside and see if we smell or taste any vinegar. I am
not gonna smell the toilet to see if it still smells like bleach, but I would
imagine that most of the bleach is gone because we ran over 20 plus gallons
through the black tank. Now that that's all done we're going to connect to the
direct water hookup that's here at the park since we've got access to fresh
water this way. We should be good to go! Princey thinks washing and sanitizing
tanks is a hard job. That was a really easy process in which we were able to
sanitize and clean our tanks. Have you sanitized and cleaned your RV tanks? If
so I'd love to learn your process. Please share with me in the comments section
below this video!