 Sanitizing Tanks |
| Sanitizing Tanks |
| Texasrvers |
 Oct 7 2009, 10:26 PM
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Recently I was at a Walmart (and no, this is not a post about parking there) and was buying chemicals for the black water tank when another customer (an RVer also, I assume) asked me what I used to sanitizes my tanks. At first I thought he meant the fresh water tank, but soon discovered he was talking about the gray and black water tanks. He told me that about once a month (and more often in hot weather) he fills both tanks to capacity with water (after dumping them) and then adds bleach. He lets that stand for a day or so and then dumps and rinses the tanks.
All we have ever done is run water through the gray water tank and back wash the black water tank. We do keep the drop in chemical packets in the black water tank when in use, but we have never done the bleach treatment. Is this something we should be doing? Does anyone else "sanitize" their gray and black water tanks? |
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| Tom |
Oct 8 2009, 11:03 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 12-October 04 Member No.: 1770 |
We are weekend campers. I do sanitize my grey and black tanks with bleach, but at the end of the year when I am winterizing the TT. Sometimes I've done it in the middle of the summer if we haven't used the camper for weeks. I do not find the need to sanitize while we are using the camper... it can sit for a couple weeks with just a good rinsing without any smell (or at least very little).
I think depending on natural bacteria is great if you are using the tanks regularly. But in my experience, when those tanks sit for long periods of no use and they are not absolutely perfectly cleaned out, whatever little bit of "stuff" that is left in them will begin to stink. I've been doing this for 6 seasons now without any problems. -------------------- 2008 F-250 5.4L CrewCab
2004 21' Forest River Surveyor TT |
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Texasrvers Sanitizing Tanks Oct 7 2009, 10:26 PM
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