Newbie Problems

[gemert]

Originally Posted by Discal

Thank you everyone for the feedback. I do believe it is time to take the dish soap on a three hour cruise. My wife Terri is wanting to go down to Melbourne and show it to her sister. That will be a good three hours round trip. We have already made it a point not to put coffee grounds or grease down the drain but who knows how the last owners handled their tanks.


Again thank you for the feedback.

Google the "geo" method. You are on the right track with the soap. Add water softener to the mix. It keeps things from sticking to the sides of your tank. Ever take a shower in softened water? Skin felt slippery? Same thing.

[BentlyRV]

The only consistent thing about the Tank Sensors is they are inconsistent! They only seem to be as good as our last attempt of cleaning and dumping. I'm not sure they should be called sensors. However, while you get to know your coach, they are consistent as "indicators!" So, if it's been a few days without dumping and the said indicators are indicating full, I'm planning on tank dumps asap!
Best to all,
Tim

[MTK46]

Originally Posted by gemert

Google the "geo" method. You are on the right track with the soap. Add water softener to the mix. It keeps things from sticking to the sides of your tank. Ever take a shower in softened water? Skin felt slippery? Same thing.

Been RVing for 30+ years & then on another rv site I found the "geo" method.
Figured I'd give it a try. Been using it for three years now.
Like the old old commercial said "try it you make like it, look Mikey likes it"

Mikey gives it a

[Discal]

Newbie update,
We took the Southwind for a drive this weekend for the first time since buying her. We made sure the tanks were well emptied. We have not been to the store in a couple of weeks and were running low on dish soap, so we used a well known degreaser we had in the house. We will call it “Cruel Jade Degreaser”. I poured a couple of cups down both the drain in the shower, and the toilet. That was followed by a five gallon bucket of water. Then off we went to visit relatives. (A side note; we now know we are going to invest in some suspension upgrades. We felt like Forrest Gumps ping pong ball every time the tractor trailers went by.) We got back to the house after about a six hour drive; hooked up the drain lines, and proceeded to stop up the entire world! We have not used the toilet but sparingly when we needed to urinate while setting things up. But let me tell you, we got everything but coming out of that tank. You could see; whatever it was, though the clear elbow. It looked a lot like warm pudding someone would wash down the sink. There was also a fair bit of toilet paper; which as I said earlier, we had not put down the drain. Now, I know all of this intimately because the drain we hook up to as about a foot up on the side of our house and during the comings and goings, I caught the hose with my foot and pulled it loose from house. No fertilizer for the side yard this summer. Fortunately, the smell was.... delicate enough, that the neighbors did not riot. Boy oh boy, I can see the good times ahead already.

[gemert]

Originally Posted by Discal

Newbie update,
We took the Southwind for a drive this weekend for the first time since buying her. We made sure the tanks were well emptied. We have not been to the store in a couple of weeks and were running low on dish soap, so we used a well known degreaser we had in the house. We will call it “Cruel Jade Degreaser”. I poured a couple of cups down both the drain in the shower, and the toilet. That was followed by a five gallon bucket of water. Then off we went to visit relatives. (A side note; we now know we are going to invest in some suspension upgrades. We felt like Forrest Gumps ping pong ball every time the tractor trailers went by.) We got back to the house after about a six hour drive; hooked up the drain lines, and proceeded to stop up the entire world! We have not used the toilet but sparingly when we needed to urinate while setting things up. But let me tell you, we got everything but coming out of that tank. You could see; whatever it was, though the clear elbow. It looked a lot like warm pudding someone would wash down the sink. There was also a fair bit of toilet paper; which as I said earlier, we had not put down the drain. Now, I know all of this intimately because the drain we hook up to as about a foot up on the side of our house and during the comings and goings, I caught the hose with my foot and pulled it loose from house. No fertilizer for the side yard this summer. Fortunately, the smell was.... delicate enough, that the neighbors did not riot. Boy oh boy, I can see the good times ahead already.

Whats the real name of that cleaner? Sounds like it did a fantastic job of cleaning all the old...stuff from your tanks.