How often do you clean your freshwater tank?

The  Huskypup's  learning  fast  isn't  he  !

if youre using you van constantly, i dont really see a reason to clean the water system....our tap water contains chlorine..

for those who wish to do so, Truma produce a product called Aquastar which can help and is non corrosive to stainless steel boilers... 

If you have a carbon filter in the water system, then no residual chlorine (which is only around 0.2ppm anyway at the source tap) will find its way into the system. So, no matter how much you use the system, no disinfectant will pass through. The water filter (Crystal, etc) will only remove taste- and also, alas, chorline/chloramine. If you remove, or don't have a filter, then if the supply is in constant use, it will be clean, but standing water in tanks has reduced chlorine content, so would be advisable to disinfect/clean at least once a year.

mark, how will i know if i have a carbon filter?

thre water system is in pretty constant use...

I think Marksailor and I are singing from the same hymn sheet on this.   Except he does it far mote eloquently than I can

 Carbon  filters are ineffective in reducing the number of bacteria in your water supply. They will add to it because the bacteria will happily live on and in carbon filters doing what bacteria do, eg multiplying.  I sell filters to the pharmaceutical industry, for me to sell a sterilising grade filter it must be shown that it is capable of being able to filter a solution that contains at least 1 X 10^7 bacteria and still produce a sterile filtrate.  1x10^7 is a lot of bacteria, but that challenge amount is not per filter it is per square cm of filter area.  Oh the standard test bacteria is special small one grown under special conditions to keep it small.  

So its obvious that this a sale pitch to get you buy one filters?   Wrong you don't think that we could sell these filters for £10 a time in an accessory shop.  You couldn't afford them.  Even then after all that you could argue that, that filter doesnt truly sterilise, beause microplasmas will go through it and as for viruses don't even go there.

Keep your system clean and practice good hygiene but don't believe that tipping something into your aquaroll and running it through the taps will sterilise your water system then think again.  

After all that bad news a bit of good we have evolved over millions of years to be resistant to the vast majority of these bugs. Be careful, but don't be paranoid and above all don't be fooled by carefully worded marketing Bull.  

www.truma.com/uk/en/water-systems/information-aquastar.php

Truma dropped AquaStar.

Boff, i think my point was that i DIDNT want a carbon filter if it stops chlorine passing through into the system, where it can do what it does at home....

our system is in pretty constant use and i am happy that this, along with the 'normal water we drink every day' os not gping to kill us.

however, if a carbon filter fails to allow this to happen, i shall consider removing it.....if i knew i had one

BB You posted as I was typing so my reply wasn't directed at you!  Unless I am psychic. As far I know the only psychic power I posses is hind sight, which reading this forum seems to be quite common 

BB You posted as I was typing so my reply wasn't directed at you!  Unless I am psychic. As far I know the only psychic power I posses is hind sight, which reading this forum seems to be quite common 

slways a good string to one's bow.....

Most carbon filters are either in the filter housing (like Crystal, ultralfow, etc.) or in a seperate unit in either the main cold feed interally, or sometimes just supplying the cold water kitchen tap. Manuals should tell you where- they need to be accessible for changing! In a MH, I would expect it to be shortly after the onboard water pump, or under the kitchen sink... probably!

For years we used Milton or supermarket variations, to clean our water system through via the Aquaroll, once a year at the beginning of each season. Reading CT we realised this wasn't a good idea and switched to Puriclean. However we had noticd a horrible bleachy taint to the water - we always use water straight from the van system. The Aquarolls seemed to be the culprit. After much research we gave the Aquarolls a good soaking in bicarbonate of soda, good rinse out - job done, lovely water.  We then just flushed the system through with clean water. This is what we shall do in future. This year we plan to start using the on- board water tank for the first time. We'll flush it through with Puriclean & then lots of fresh clean water. The Aquarolls will then be soaked in bicarbonate of soda & rinsed. There must be something in the composition of Aquarolls that don't like Miton or Puriclean type cleaners, we never had this problem with the old white water containers. The manufacturers of Aquarolls recommend bicarbonate of soda for cleaning out. We've never used bottled water, and dont  intend to! 

What dilution of Bicarb do you use in your Aquaroll?

Hi Nellie - four tablespoons per Aquaroll.