I have been camping for 55 years. I have never had a stinky tank, a poop pyrmid or a leaking valve. Not that I can't have one of them tomorrow. I do occationally get an inacurate level indicator. I have never added any disinfectants or smell killers. If we think about it, we turn off the exhaust prior to flushing. That stops the air coming from the black tank. When we empty the black tank prior to traveling, we add ice cubes to the tank. While traveling, the motion of the ice cubes scrapes the entire tank and grrinds up anything that is there, including any toilet paper that may have stuck to the sensors. The melting ice gives us some water to start our next stay. Don & Honey
While on the subject of water I never see any one talking about rv plumbing, other then the gray black tank. What tools to use to repair etc. I also never see a certified technician show and discuss the rv plumbing system through out the unit. When he’s doing an inspection. Lots of rvs manufacturers are using the wrong plumbing pipes and clamps. We are concern about leaks from the roof. But not about leaks in our pipes so much. Precautions I take, I never leave the water on at the spiket when i leave my rv. At night when I go to sleep I turn off my water outlet. I’ve don’t want to wake up in 2 feet of water. I also have water sensor in my rv at different location. So it’s time for videos on rv plumbing. Don’t you think😮. Thanks guys. Your videos have taught me so much.
We usually use the tank wash,backwash and dump a few pails of water down the toilet. Even after the tank wash and backwash still get stuff out of the tank with a few pail dumps. Oh yeah another great video.
To fill your tank,I recommend an inline water flow meter if you have a tank flush. After I dump, I flush 10 gallons, and flush again if it's not clear and then add 10 gallons again which is 25% of my 40 gallon black tank. Never a pyramid problem!
I use a 5 gallon bucket as a gauge when I pour water into the toilet. I fill the bucket in the shower. And I keep the bucket over my electric tongue jack (travel trailer of course) to help protect the electric jack from the elements.
Hello from the quiet frosty Ozarks! Another video of value! Hope your all well and enjoying your day. Does it hurt anything if you let the tank fill to just below the toilet flush valve before draining black tank?
Hi. My husband Don has a question. He loves your Two Minute Tech Tip Tuesday videos!!! He has also completed your home study course and is very handy managing all things RV. Question: Should we put our stabilizer jacks down while storing travel trailer over winter?
The NRVTA pros may have a different (or better) answer, but I would not for the following reasons: 1) It is not necessary. Even if you are parking your RV in a completely unprotected place and you are subject to high winds, having the stabilizers down really won't do any good. A bit of rocking while you're not in it won't be a problem. Do, however, make sure that everything is locked down, just like on a travel day. 2) It gives a second path for critters (especially ants) to get up into your RV. Also, ant colonies, at least where we live, will build mounds around things like jacks and, when they do, it's a way for the moisture in the soil to get at and attack (rust) your jacks. Yes, ants can and will build mounds around your tires, but they have to build up past the rubber before they can start causing any rust. 3) It exposes the jacks to the weather more than they would when tucked up under the RV. Again, this is about reducing the opportunity for rust-causing things like rain and, even worse, snow, to get on and collect on the jacks, causing rust and corrosion. If you do decide to deploy your stabilizers, I suggest that you place some TREATED (so they don't attract carpenter ants and termites) wood boards under them so that you have a bot of a buffer between the jacks and the ground-dwelling critters.
Tadaa 😂,you Sir are such a fantastic teacher! I'm new to fulltime solo living. I got an older toy hauler 🤦🏻♀️❗ the lesson I have learned in the last 2 months are expensive. Everything thing from facing a blizzard, breaker box, frozen pipes, RV skirting, iced over window n exterior doors. Oh and the whole awning puzzle . Although I'm medically disabled, I have experience of rental properties management ect. .... Not as transferable info as I though. Your tech videos have truly be a life safer. Question: keystone outback toy hauler toilet is clogged. I did all the tips I have found on UA-cam but it still isn't cleared. Back flushed it, did the 5 ft PEX " just wiggle it around past the 2nd gate my ass" when I go to dump the tanks, which the gray tanks back flow often, there's only a pull lever for the kitchen and one from the tub area. Both say gray tanks. The black tank doesn't have a pull lever. It's just a cap with a gate on the end. Am I missing something? Should there be a black tank pull lever?
People need to know how to flush properly. They use the flush to fill the tank with the dump valve closed and are overflowing into the coach. Always operate the flush with the dump valve open. Imagine black water on the roof from the tank vent? Clear up the correct way to flush.
After years of camping I have found using the campground bathhouse is the best way hands down to avoid the poop pyramid and lots of other problems...😁 Great video.
Here is my question? We bought a used RV (yes unseen) from a "friend" who had it parked at a storage for 2 years, so he said. We drove it to our property to park it & live in it. Now when we got moved up here & started living in it we found the toilet to be full of poop/tp & dryed out. We tried adding water with different RV toilet chemicals but it will not disolve & we are parked perminate before we found this. How do we get it to empty so we can use it? We have been going outside in a compost toilet but winter is coming & I'm too old & sick to get up in middle of night to pee outside. Please help!?!?
I have been camping for 55 years. I have never had a stinky tank, a poop pyrmid or a leaking valve. Not that I can't have one of them tomorrow. I do occationally get an inacurate level indicator. I have never added any disinfectants or smell killers. If we think about it, we turn off the exhaust prior to flushing. That stops the air coming from the black tank. When we empty the black tank prior to traveling, we add ice cubes to the tank. While traveling, the motion of the ice cubes scrapes the entire tank and grrinds up anything that is there, including any toilet paper that may have stuck to the sensors. The melting ice gives us some water to start our next stay.
Don & Honey
While on the subject of water I never see any one talking about rv plumbing, other then the gray black tank. What tools to use to repair etc. I also never see a certified technician show and discuss the rv plumbing system through out the unit. When he’s doing an inspection. Lots of rvs manufacturers are using the wrong plumbing pipes and clamps. We are concern about leaks from the roof. But not about leaks in our pipes so much. Precautions I take, I never leave the water on at the spiket when i leave my rv. At night when I go to sleep I turn off my water outlet. I’ve don’t want to wake up in 2 feet of water. I also have water sensor in my rv at different location.
So it’s time for videos on rv plumbing. Don’t you think😮. Thanks guys. Your videos have taught me so much.
We usually use the tank wash,backwash and dump a few pails of water down the toilet. Even after the tank wash and backwash still get stuff out of the tank with a few pail dumps. Oh yeah another great video.
To fill your tank,I recommend an inline water flow meter if you have a tank flush. After I dump, I flush 10 gallons, and flush again if it's not clear and then add 10 gallons again which is 25% of my 40 gallon black tank. Never a pyramid problem!
I use a 5 gallon bucket as a gauge when I pour water into the toilet. I fill the bucket in the shower. And I keep the bucket over my electric tongue jack (travel trailer of course) to help protect the electric jack from the elements.
Bidet use is heaven. Less TP, rinse and go. Not hard to install. Cost about $35 residential.
Hello from the quiet frosty Ozarks! Another video of value! Hope your all well and enjoying your day. Does it hurt anything if you let the tank fill to just below the toilet flush valve before draining black tank?
Good info
Do I have to follow that same guidelines if I have a macerater toilet?
Hi. My husband Don has a question. He loves your Two Minute Tech Tip Tuesday videos!!! He has also completed your home study course and is very handy managing all things RV. Question: Should we put our stabilizer jacks down while storing travel trailer over winter?
The NRVTA pros may have a different (or better) answer, but I would not for the following reasons:
1) It is not necessary. Even if you are parking your RV in a completely unprotected place and you are subject to high winds, having the stabilizers down really won't do any good. A bit of rocking while you're not in it won't be a problem. Do, however, make sure that everything is locked down, just like on a travel day.
2) It gives a second path for critters (especially ants) to get up into your RV. Also, ant colonies, at least where we live, will build mounds around things like jacks and, when they do, it's a way for the moisture in the soil to get at and attack (rust) your jacks. Yes, ants can and will build mounds around your tires, but they have to build up past the rubber before they can start causing any rust.
3) It exposes the jacks to the weather more than they would when tucked up under the RV. Again, this is about reducing the opportunity for rust-causing things like rain and, even worse, snow, to get on and collect on the jacks, causing rust and corrosion.
If you do decide to deploy your stabilizers, I suggest that you place some TREATED (so they don't attract carpenter ants and termites) wood boards under them so that you have a bot of a buffer between the jacks and the ground-dwelling critters.
Tadaa 😂,you Sir are such a fantastic teacher! I'm new to fulltime solo living. I got an older toy hauler 🤦🏻♀️❗ the lesson I have learned in the last 2 months are expensive. Everything thing from facing a blizzard, breaker box, frozen pipes, RV skirting, iced over window n exterior doors. Oh and the whole awning puzzle .
Although I'm medically disabled, I have experience of rental properties management ect. .... Not as transferable info as I though. Your tech videos have truly be a life safer.
Question: keystone outback toy hauler toilet is clogged. I did all the tips I have found on UA-cam but it still isn't cleared. Back flushed it, did the 5 ft PEX " just wiggle it around past the 2nd gate my ass" when I go to dump the tanks, which the gray tanks back flow often, there's only a pull lever for the kitchen and one from the tub area. Both say gray tanks. The black tank doesn't have a pull lever. It's just a cap with a gate on the end. Am I missing something? Should there be a black tank pull lever?
Love this guy!
People need to know how to flush properly. They use the flush to fill the tank with the dump valve closed and are overflowing into the coach. Always operate the flush with the dump valve open. Imagine black water on the roof from the tank vent? Clear up the correct way to flush.
After years of camping I have found using the campground bathhouse is the best way hands down to avoid the poop pyramid and lots of other problems...😁 Great video.
We couldn’t agree with you more!
If your toilet ain’t right, your life ain’t right!
Here is my question? We bought a used RV (yes unseen) from a "friend" who had it parked at a storage for 2 years, so he said. We drove it to our property to park it & live in it. Now when we got moved up here & started living in it we found the toilet to be full of poop/tp & dryed out. We tried adding water with different RV toilet chemicals but it will not disolve & we are parked perminate before we found this.
How do we get it to empty so we can use it? We have been going outside in a compost toilet but winter is coming & I'm too old & sick to get up in middle of night to pee outside.
Please help!?!?
Cinderella Toilets fixes the poop pyramid.