RVing Quick Tip: RV Water Hookup
How to set up the water at an RV park. Michael walks you through the steps you take to hook up and connect the water from the RV park to the RV. He includes the things that you must have, as well as the tools that are nice to have.
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If the filter is ahead of the hose and filtered water is just sitting in the heat wouldn’t bacteria start? Vs having the filter on the rv side?
It’s been suggested to put the filter on the rv side of the rv because that hose it baking in the sun with water in it? Does this make sense?
I have a Jayco 2014 Premier 5th wheel. The water panel shows a bunch of water switches. I am trying to figure how to set it up. We will be using camp sites with full hookups. How do we set all of the switches. City fixtures, City fill tank, Country fill, or normal.
But leaving the hose out in the sun it's gonna cause bacteria to grow in the hose it seems like to me you should just took that filter as close to the camper as you can.
Great video! New subscriber. Can you show how you maintain, empty toilet ? Also what did you mean by flushing out the dark water ? Can you show? Thanks so much!
Very helpful video! Thanks
Good video. I've tried connecting in various ways and yours makes the most sense to me. I always run the drinking water hose before connecting to flush out bugs, etc. And finally, those water pressure regulators come in various fixed pressures. I found the 40-45 lb can restrict to much if the campground spigot is already regulated so I switched to a 50-55 lb regulator after my adjustable one broke.
Great tutorial. Glad to count on YouTube to figure this out. Why don't they teach you this stuff like a FULL orientation when you buy a new RV. I feel like I'm always learning something new or having to deal with an issue in my Rv. Got a few good tips and tools to use now!
nice rig
awesome vid…what size regulator?
Quick connects come in handy also…
That's a good idea putting the regulator near the spigot. We had a pop up camper and had the regulator at the camper, also with a 90 degree bend. All worked well in the camper, but 1 hot day, the water hose got hot and from the water pressure, it developed a big bulge, before it ruptured. After purchasing another water hose, we started using the regulator at the spigot and never had another water problem.
Great video. Have a couple suggestions. I would strongly suggest a back flow preventer on the hose you use for the black tank flush. Something else you may want to consider is a water filter upgrade. While the one you are using does work, it won't catch everything especially cysts or amoebas. I use a canister system that can be found here http://www.rvwaterfilterstore.com/. It's a 1 micron dual canister filter that catches most everything along with a carbon filter. I'm currently at a park where the water smells like sulfur and the filter totally eliminates the sulfur odor. Hope this helps & good luck.
I suggest adding quick disconnect hose fittings to all your hose connections. It makes hooking up and disconnecting much faster and more important, it prevents you from stripping the plastic female ends on most RVs. You can get good quality brass quick disconnects from Lowes or Amazon.
One thing that we carry in our wet bay of our motorcoach is a bottle of bleach solution so that we can disinfect the water spigot before we connect any hoses or water adapters (Y Adapters). I started doing this after I watched a camper flush his sewer hose by holding it up to the spigot and turning the water on!
It's 2am and I'm watching this also ! 😀
its 1 am and I'm watchin this