Using the Toilet
A motor home has Three dilute tanks--a fresh water receptacle, a coal douse vat (for toilet sewage) and a grey dilute receptacle (for excess aqua from shower and sinks). The toilet works in corresponding fashion that a toilet in a condo works--with the exception activity that the Engine inland uses even less imbue than a cave toilet. When you appliance the bathroom in a Engine house, you'll grasp that there is no baptize in the toilet when you sit down. This saves additional inundate filling up your black water tank. If you are just using the toilet for urine, urinate and then flush, which sends fresh water into the bowl to rinse the urine into the black water tank. If you are using the toilet for solid waste, step on the foot pedal that adds water to the toilet bowl before you sit on the toilet, since this will aid in flushing the solid waste down when you are done, keeping the toilet cleaner.
Emptying the Sewage Tank
Toilet chemicals are essential for breakdown of sewage and for preventing odors in a motor home bathroom. Pouring products like Aqua-Kem, Enviro-Chem and TST coupled with fresh water into the toilet helps the motor home toilet maintain odor control and helps break down the waste and toilet paper in the tank, making it easier to empty the black water tank when it gets full. To keep the tank functioning properly there should be nothing introduced to the tank except toilet paper and waste products, since the chemicals cannot break down other objects and they may cause the system to clog. Even toilet paper should be the type that is safe for septic tanks. To empty the tank, the sewer hose gets attached to both the motor home and into the sewer facility you are emptying into. The gray water tank should be closed. The black water tank is opened and allowed to flow through the tube into the sewer. The tank is closed when empty. The same process is repeated with the gray water tank.
Reducing Odors
A trick for reducing odors is to keep the gray water tank closed for a few days prior to emptying your tanks, to let the gray water accumulate and help flush out the black water residue when you are emptying your tanks. You can also flush the lines with fresh water by dumping water into the toilet and letting it flush out the tube when your black water is still connected to the sewer. After emptying, make sure all tanks are closed, and then add new toilet chemicals into the toilet.
Cleaning and Maintenance of Sewage Tank
When the black water tank gets 3/4 of the way full, the tank needs to be emptied. You want to wait until the tank is that full because the fuller the tank, the easier and faster the sewage will flow through the hoses when you are emptying it. Also, the longer the sewage sits in your tank, the longer the toilet chemicals have to break down the toilet paper and waste materials. A way to avoid plumbing leaks or breakdown of motor home bathroom pipes is to make sure harsh bathroom cleansers are not used. Only motor home-safe cleaning solutions are appropriate to ensure the life of your pipes.
