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With our Ikea watering can it takes 3 loads to fill the Thetford loo tank.

If I do it then it takes longer timewise as I like to have a chat with fellow campers 

If I'm under orders it can be quicker or might get filled from the water hog via the sink tap, or if on a fully serviced pitch it gets filled before connecting the caravan to the water tap. 

Ah,  one  of  the  pleasures  of  having  no  "Top  Tank"  in  my  'van  --  it  takes  the  water for  the  toilet  direct  from  the  one  main  water  tank  -- approx  18  gallons  without  looking  it  up  !!      Idle-itis  rules 

How many trips to the tap does it take to fill the tank with a 2ltr bottle? My tank seems to take almost a full watering can, about 6 gallons.

I think my flush tank holds about 10L but I rarely fill it right up as I like to travel with a small amount in it.

I found a plug connection in the waste compartment for the un-identified submersible pump that came with our 'new' caravan.  It's to pump water into the toilet flush tank. 

One bit of advice that I would give regarding what is needed in the caravan is, whatever you put in, weigh it and make a note somewhere then you only have to do this once. It's surprising how the weight adds up and you may soon find that your payload has been exceeded. Each individual item doesn't need to be weighed. For example, put all your crockery into a box and weigh that on a set of bathroom scales. Similarly with bedding etc. I weighed all the food that we take with us and, although this varies from trip to trip there is always about the same sort of quantity each time. The weights of things like aquaroll and wastemaster are not just recorded but are also marked on each item. If you have a motor mover you need to be aware of the weight of that as it comes off the payload, as does the weight of the battery.

Thanks everyone, we survived and thoroughly enjoyed our first weekend, bickering kept to a minimum, unlike one poor couple who were also new and were having a proper humdinger of a row regarding their awning. Watering can is on the list.  We did find a lot of people watched us as we attempted to pitch up first time, apparently tickets can be sold for this spectacle.  Absolutely loved it and even though we were only a few miles from home it felt like a holiday.  Caravanners R us from now on. 

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Putting up an awning as a couple is commonly referred to as 'divorce in a bag'.

How many trips to the tap does it take to fill the tank with a 2ltr bottle? My tank seems to take almost a full watering can, about 6 gallons.

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Thats a big watering can, it must weigh around 60lb

I'm assuming it's 6 gallons it has marks on the side which I guess is for one gallon each. I may be wrong I often am these days

Litres more like. It's all the fault of them thar "Remainers". 

That's probably it. I was once at a seminar listening to a paper by a Swede who said the British were going metric inch by inch!