Cleaning freshwater onboard equipment

[crankedup5]

I asked elsewhere about cleaning my onboard glassfibre water tank, hoses, taps along with my aquaroll. Bicarbonate of soda but unable to buy any locally atm and want to get it done for weekend.
Next product Puriclean - good stuff of snake oil ? Thanks.

[Robotron70]

We use Puriclean on the caravan and waterhog, but we only drink bottled water to mitigate a worst case scenario of waking up at 3 in the morning with the trots.

[Robotron70]

We did fill the dogs water bowl up from the tap a few times, might explain the explosive poop early one morning. Our kids woke us up screaming, we thought they were being murdered, which would probably have made less mess than the dog crap everywhere.

[crankedup5]

Thanks chaps all points noted, and I will definitely buy bottled water for drinking.

[Steve Kimberley]

We use Puriclean a couple of times a year (and have an inline filter, changed every Spring) and have never had a problem drinking the water.

[crankedup5]

Steve Kimberley said:

We use Puriclean a couple of times a year (and have an inline filter, changed every Spring) and have never had a problem drinking the water.

My van is an oldie classic, I don’t think it is fitted with any filters at all. I only use the old girl for long weekends away at steam rallies. It has a fibreglass water holding tank but the hoses look fairly new and are fit for food use.

[crankedup5]

Just a mention, I have measured my onboard water tank and it carries just 59 Lt all up. No shower,
no en-suite, no hot water storage, no water flush loo (porta-pottie). What a contrast to modern campervan!!
As I have just modernised from 1920’s. caravan into my mid 60’s campervan it does feel like the very essence of luxury

[tr7v8]

On the various boats & caravan I've always used bleach. A teaspoon in 5L Never had a problem.

[Steve Kimberley]

crankedup5 said:

Steve Kimberley said:

We use Puriclean a couple of times a year (and have an inline filter, changed every Spring) and have never had a problem drinking the water.

My van is an oldie classic, I don’t think it is fitted with any filters at all. I only use the old girl for long weekends away at steam rallies. It has a fibreglass water holding tank but the hoses look fairly new and are fit for food use.

We use a simple Whale push-fit inline filter, available from most camping/caravan type suppliers (it's an integrated cartridge job so you just release the push-fit couplings and throw it away and install a new one. Depends on your pipes I guess, but might be worth looking into).

[crankedup5]

Thanks for the tip Steve, ^^^^^ I will investigate further. My van has a simple blue outlet from tank to pump and inlet pipe to water tap. Food safety pipes so fairly modern.

[oblio]

I use Puriclean once a year to flush the system. We carry an empty 5l plastic water container and fill it from site taps for drinking and never had a problem home or abroad. We don't drink from the water in the MH but Mrs O does brush her teeth using it, again with no problems.

[hellorent]

What about "miltons" the stuff you clean babies bottles with

[crankedup5]

hellorent said:

What about "miltons" the stuff you clean babies bottles with

My limited understanding of use of ‘Milton’, it can affect some metal parts in the water system and also can leave a ‘taste’ in the water.

[chopper602]

No idea why there is so much negativity about drinking from the on-board water supply. Clean it, once or twice a year with Puriclean or similar and use water from the tap as you would at home. It's chlorinated the same as at home and you don't ever clean out your home pipework, do you?
My wife & I have always drank from the on-board and have never had any upsets

[valiant]

chopper602 said:

No idea why there is so much negativity about drinking from the on-board water supply. Clean it, once or twice a year with Puriclean or similar and use water from the tap as you would at home. It's chlorinated the same as at home and you don't ever clean out your home pipework, do you?
My wife & I have always drank from the on-board and have never had any upsets

Yeah, but your home pipes are generally always in use multiple times a day and the system permanently pressurised so fresh water is always being pushed through and not allowing nasties to grow within your pipe work.

We tend to winterise our m/h over, well, winter so that means draining down everything which *could* lead to something I’d rather not have living within my pipe work. Yes, puriclean a few times a year is pretty much essential but I’d rather not the chance of my cack-handedness causing me any stomach upsets potentially ruining out holiday so stick with bottled for drinking.