How to Store Your Waste Water Dump Equipment
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Once you’ve found a place to stay for a few days in your RV, you’re going to need to eventually dump the contents of your waste water tanks. You’ll have dedicated hoses and equipment for this task as well as a garden hose and cleaning tools. This kit ensures that you can empty your tanks and store away the equipment afterward, but in a way that keeps the equipment isolated from the rest of the water system. This separation of hoses will keep bacteria and pathogens away from your drinking water, eliminating the chance that you’ll contaminate the clean lines with the dirty ones.
In this video, you’ll learn about the different pieces of equipment needed for emptying out the waste water tank and for dumping it into the proper receptacles. You’ll find out the importance of cleaning the entire kit before storage, and get tips on how to clean the equipment and what to use to make sure it’s as germ-free as possible. You’ll find out how and where to store the dump equipment in a compact manner that keeps it away from any other part of the water system.
In some smaller trailers you don’t have a large storage space, or basement, below the RV proper. This means you won’t have a dedicated spot to keep the waste water dump equipment in. Learn alternative storage methods in this case, as well as best practices for keeping your water system clean, healthy, and pathogen-free. You may not have the storage space that some bigger rigs do, but you can practice safe habits just as easily.
When storing your wastewater dump hose and other equipment, you'll wanna make sure you keep it completely separate of anything else in a compartment. It's gonna have bacteria and pathogens, that type of stuff, and even though you clean it out with bleach, it's still a good idea to keep it in its own compartment. For example, in this one here, we've got a pretty good compartment. divider in here, so I would just bring this up. I'm gonna leave this hooked all the time so I don't have to worry about it bouncing around. Always put our drain back in. Flush tank. I'm also gonna keep my garden hose. Now, I use one specifically dedicated to the dump station, so if I have it laying on the ground, I have anything that it's gonna come in contact with any of the fluids in there, I don't have to worry about it going into a compartment where I have something else that I may be using on a day-to-day activity. Now, a lot of people I have seen will use a compartment like this, and they'll store two or three hoses over here, even a drinking hose, the freshwater hose sometimes. I want it completely away from that compartment. I'm gonna put it right in here. Put this up against the side. Now, one of the things you may find is in your travel trailers and your fifth wheels, you don't have a nice compartment like this, so you pretty much, the best thing to do in that case would be get a large Rubbermaid or other type of a plastic container big enough to hold that hose with a good, tight-fitting lid, and make sure that you wipe it down. Take some sanitary wipes with you and just wipe the whole thing down, and then put it in a compartment again. You wanna keep it away from anything else. So with a little bit of preparation, you can keep all your sanitary sewer equipment away from any other component, garden hoses, that type of stuff, and make it a lot more sanitary.
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