Water connection on serviced pitch

Our tank is also below floor level, but has a reasonably sized round access lid so you can get in to clean inside if necessary, not that I have ever needed to, and to access the probes that send a signal re the water level to the control panel above the door.

We only have the one pump, the bit that goes between the Aquaroll and the van is just a pipe with a grit filter on the end, I think they call it a "water uptake pipe".

It is a very simple system, really nothing to go wrong, which I like!

I have adapted an old 12v submersible pump we had left from our previous van to use for filling the toilet tank from a 10litre water carrier, as lifting the container that high when full is a bit painful these days.   Plugs into an external 12v socket and is operated by a push button switch, very handy.

I have a Whale pump in the Aqua Roll that can be used to supply water directly to the taps or to fill the tank. I'm embarrassed to say that I've never looked around the onboard tank for an access cover or level probe .... I know there's a T handled plug/bung to drain the tank. The onboard tank has its own pump.

A previous owner made a similar pump to fill the toilet tank though it doesn't have a switch.

 Even on a service pitch the filling of the toilet rinse tank is a nuisance - unless one has an internal connection to the caravan water system. I use the five litre containers supplied with drinking water by supermarkets.  Good for around 50 refill cycles before the handle fails.

In our previous van (1998 model) the toilet drew the flush water from the Aquaroll, which was indeed a lot less hassle, took us ages to get used to having to fill a flush tank, and we still frequently forget to do it.

yt - sorry but you're thinking 'motorhome' which has a big enough tank to 'survive'  for a few days on non fully - serviced pitches.  Caravans don't usually have the space to fit a tank of that size (well, not easily, anyway). The advantage of what I described is that it works equally well on either serviced or non-serviced pitches.  Just means you have to fill the aquaroll manually when it runs out. Yes - you could have a direct connection from the mains to the van if on a serviced pitch and do away with the aquaroll - but as Kj has pointed out, there is a danger that if something goes wrong, you could end up with a flooded van. Our float valve is over 8 years old - it's simple - and hasn't let us down in all that time - and even if it did, the worst thing that could happen would be that the aquaroll would overflow.

As for toilet flushing - because I had our useless Dometic changed for a Thetford, it wasn't possible to fit a toilet with a built in flush tank - so the water comes from the inboard tank - doing away with the need to fill the flush tank.  I was a bit bothered at first because it meant we couldn't put 'pink' additive in - but it's turned out to be a bonus because it's one less thing to think about having to do.

As for your views about Whale pumps - having used them for over 40 years on boats and having changed both our pumps in the van from Truma and Reich to Whale just after we got it, I have to say I don't share your view.

The OP was about a motorhome...

my comment re Whale pumps/fillers/heaters etc come from much reading of other forums...witness plenty of heartbreak on the AS forum over the years.

we don't have a separate flush tank, just another thing to go wrong.

we have one tank, we drink the water, we use it for washing up and showering, it flushes the toilet....we fill it with a hose pipe...could it be more simple?

“The OP was about a motorhome” and was posted under the heading “Motorhomesl” , Caravans are under the heading above.