Hydrogen Peroxide on drinking lines

[joshuajim]

My mom taught me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

[drivintin]

Originally Posted by DoC808

This is why I asked the question, I didn't know what everybody did. Seems like some people don't worry about it and others do. Kind of like the ones that don't believe in buying a surge protector. I guess you only do it as insurance.

Now let's not go crazy, I strongly suggest a surge suppressor! Haha [emoji6]

[Ron_H]

I have a spray bottle of Lysol with Hydrogen Peroxide Multi-Purpose Cleaner hanging in my service bay. The first thing I do, when starting my hook-up process, is to spray the water spigot. It then sits to get disinfected while I do the rest on the connection. The last thing I do is turn on the water spigot to flush it and then disconnect my fresh water hose.

Having taken sanitation courses for food handling I am fully aware of how contamination gets everywhere and with the sewer connection in the same service bay you have to assume there is cross contamination. Also, seeing what happens with water spigots you have to know they are not clean and simply flushing water through does not disinfect it.

Yes, some folks don't worry about the microbes they can't see and they don't know the true causes of all their illness and infection episodes. Spraying the water spigot takes only a couple of seconds and the disinfectant spray is in my service bay anyway due to its use in periodically disinfecting the complete service bay.

[LETMGROW]

We never drink water from a campground spigot or even out of our fresh water tank. No need to IMO. We carry gallon jugs of water from home and or bottled water.
How many times have you seen health department citations written for poor record keeping of water systems in restaurants and other public venues? Showering and flushing toilets is OK you just need to keep your mouth shut. We use water from home to wash dishes and cooking utensils in also. Paper products and plastic silverware is the norm for us. We have been forced to wash dishes a couple times with campground water but boil the water before we use it.
I don't even like public pools. I'm not too sure of private pools either. Or, maybe I am. I'd rather sit on the deck and watch others have fun.
Lynn

[Bob_C]

Evidently, you were never in the service overseas

[LETMGROW]

Originally Posted by bob caldwell

Evidently, you were never in the service overseas

Sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
Now I have a choice.
Lynn

[churd9]

Originally Posted by DoC808

This is why I asked the question, I didn't know what everybody did. Seems like some people don't worry about it and others do. Kind of like the ones that don't believe in buying a surge protector. I guess you only do it as insurance.

We don't drink the water out of ours we carrier water for drinking

[DoC808]

Originally Posted by churd9

We don't drink the water out of ours we carrier water for drinking

I thought of that too, but I do a lot of backpacking and drink out of a lot of streams and usually fill up my canteens and water bladders at any hose I can find. So what I did was I sanitized my freshwater tank in the RV twice and use a filter to fill it and it tastes fine. I haven't been sick so far. I just hate the thought of buying water in a plastic bottle.

[churd9]

Originally Posted by DoC808

I thought of that too, but I do a lot of backpacking and drink out of a lot of streams and usually fill up my canteens and water bladders at any hose I can find. So what I did was I sanitized my freshwater tank in the RV twice and use a filter to fill it and it tastes fine. I haven't been sick so far. I just hate the thought of buying water in a plastic bottle.

We bought several now we refill them at home before we leave on our trips... I saw a blog a few weeks about filling your tanks on the road.. lot of rv parks are on wells and some filters you use remove the chlorine from the water all make your tank more open to contaminating

[churd9]

Originally Posted by DoC808

I thought of that too, but I do a lot of backpacking and drink out of a lot of streams and usually fill up my canteens and water bladders at any hose I can find. So what I did was I sanitized my freshwater tank in the RV twice and use a filter to fill it and it tastes fine. I haven't been sick so far. I just hate the thought of buying water in a plastic bottle.

We bought several now we refill them at home before we leave on our trips... I saw a blog a few weeks about filling your tanks on the road.. lot of rv parks are on wells and some filters you use remove the chlorine from the water all make your tank more open to contaminating

[Sehc]

As a water system operator, we would use a small hand torch to flame the spigot before collecting a bacteriological sample to test. Chlorine solution is fine for disinfection. Lysol is a disinfectant, but harmful to drink. Hydrogen Peroxide, unless 50%, is only a rinse, it will not do much disinfecting.

[Mike_Harriet]

Originally Posted by bob caldwell

Evidently, you were never in the service overseas

[emoji1303]

[Excesses]

Originally Posted by DoC808

This is why I asked the question, I didn't know what everybody did. Seems like some people don't worry about it and others do. Kind of like the ones that don't believe in buying a surge protector. I guess you only do it as insurance.

Washing hands and drinking water spigots is supported by those of us from the health care industry who don't perform patient procedures without washing hands or cleaning instruments. This was learned after the Black Plague. As for bathroom doors, I never touch one bare handed one opt to use my paper towel or my coat sleeve. Failing that, we keep hand sanitizer handy.
As for the surge protector, just bought one. We'd rather buy the insurance than wish we had after the fact.

DJ

[FatChance]

What does washing hands have to do with preventing fleas passing on the plague?