RV 101® - How To Sanitize the RV Water System Using Regular Household Bleach
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- It's a good idea to sanitize the RV water system using regular household bleach when you take the RV out of storage, or anytime you notice an odor. Find out how it's done In our RV how-to video. Caution: If you have an on-demand water heater with a copper heat exchanger, the water heater must be by-passed. Do not run chlorinated water through the water heater.
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Great job! Short, sweet and to the point. Thanks for the help!
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Ok, thank you! This was a lot easier. I don't have a truck to haul my 5th wheeler and I'm sure this is what I must do. Wish me the best!
Not bypassing the hot water heater could be a rinsing problem. Fresh water tanks should be rinsed at least 2-3 times to remove the concentrated chlorine. The hot water heater would have to fill/refill that many times too in order to remove the concentrated chlorine adequately. I suggest bypassing the hot water heater during the sanitizing process and draining it separately since it is ultra-heated anyway with respect to microbial contaminants. In other words, once drained, the hot water heater's only nemesis is microbial, which is probably adequately contained by its intense heat.
If you have an on-demand water heater with a copper heat exchanger, the water heater must be by-passed. Do not run chlorinated water through the water heater.
Thanks, very simple, to the point and helpful.
Straight to the point good job
A 2 and a half minute video that tells you everything you need to know..other vids would take an hour lol..
That was easy. Thanks!!
Thank you
Thank you!
Is this solution supposed to go through the water heater, or should I bypass it?
If you have an on-demand water heater with a copper heat exchanger, the water heater must be by-passed. Do not run chlorinated water through the water heater.
Great video mark.
My question is about the rubber things in your system. Will the bleach destroy the rubber? Thanks
Quick & simple for stupid! Thanks!
I have used bleach in our system and left it in, and we don't drink the water. Just use it for toilet and washing dishes. RV salesman recommended we don't drink the water. He said think about the water sitting in your tank on hot days. Most of our camping we have water hookups but take bottled water for drinking, coffee making and cooking when we boondock.
12 hours!? Seriously? Thank you sir!
Mark thanks for all your informative videos. ...?? Unrelated to this video! I notice the hot water tank is beneath the refrigerator vent! Does hot air or heat go up this refrigerator vent. Refrigerator are sensitive to heat anyhow . Thoughts? Thanks you.
What do you do if your RV has a built in water filter, and a water filter inside the fridge?
You can remove canister type filters or install a bypass line for under the counter filters prior to sanitizing the water system. I am not sure if the minimal concentration of bleach would harm the filters, you may want to contact the filter manufacturer and ask them.
I just watched a video that says to NEVER use bleach in a RV water system. They claimed bleach will cause early failure of the rubber seals and the water pump. Any opinion on this??
The RV industry has recommended using regular bleach to sanitize the water system for as long as I can remember. I personally never saw damage to rubber seals that was attributed to bleach used for sanitation, if done correctly.
Mark, I notice you used concentrated regular bleach instead of non-concentrated formula. What would you recommend if non-concentrated bleach is not available for the same size tank....? Just Curious? Thanks as always.
Years ago regular Clorox bleach had about 5.25% of sodium hypochlorite. Today, according to the Clorox Company all regular Clorox bleach is concentrated with about 8.25% of sodium hypochlorite. The Clorox Company representative I spoke with told me it is acceptable to still use the formula of 1/4 cup of regular Clorox bleach to every 15 gallons of water in the fresh water holding tank for sanitizing the RV water system.
RV Education 1 when I unscrewed my hose to pour in the solution, a nob stayed in that I thought was part of the hose. It's now not an opened whole. I can't pour my solution into the fresh water holding tank. I'm so frustrated! 🤔😡
Sounds like this has to be done at a place where you can drain your tanks. I would imagine filling and emptying the fresh water tank multiple fills up the gray tank. Did I miss something? Saw something about bypassing water heater. How do you do that?
I just use a container to catch the water and dump outside. Or use a hose connected to a Camco Water bandit and drain outside
I can get 65 gallons in my travel trailer. 1 cup+ bleach doesn't seem like much bleach for that much water, I definitely can't smell bleach
This video doesn't mention driving around with the tank half full like so many other videos are recommending. Is that really necessary? Doesn't seem to us that driving around would do much of anything.
Should I bypass the hotwater tank or fill it too?
If you have an on-demand water heater with a copper heat exchanger, the water heater must be by-passed. Do not run chlorinated water through the water heater.
If you have a Suburban or Atwood water heater, you do not need to by-pass it.
2 cups...... hell NO! You know how hard it is to get that out.... 1 cup per 100 gals max... You also have it in the city water as well.... Love how you guys always show on a trailer.... coachs dont have water hookups like this.... its a hose only hook up and mine points up for the inlet in the wet bay. It have to be a bottle that an be inline with the water and sucked up when its getting filled.. find something that does that... Been looking for years and nothing out her on the market...
Should you run the bleach through your toilet too?!
Mark if you take a brand new RV'; (just off the showroom floor). and decide to sanitize your entire water system; why do you mix your bleach and water in one recpiticle, then pour the entire contents into the fresh water tank, then continue to fill it completely full. Why not delete the mixing and pour directly int othe tank the bleach then continue to fill the tank, while at the same time turning on your water pump (if you're at home and can do this) to run the water through the system? It seems that there are too many steps to what I would call an easy solution.... "getting rid of the middle man".....
Thanks!
Thank you 😊