Water Problem

Has the lines been cleaned.? We never use the water on board always have a 4 litre plastic bottle which we drink water from.

Clean all water pipes and containers with Puriclean, flush several times afterwards, see if that helps.

I hope you find that cleaning out the pipes resolves the problem but, like many others, we keep a small container of fresh water on board for drinking and refill it daily.  I wouldn't drink water that was days old at home and prefer not to do it in the caravan. 

In more than 30 years of yachting, interspersed with a few years of caravanning, we have always used 'on board' water for drinking and never suffered any ill effects.  We do use a Brita filter or something similar but I'm not entirely convinced that actually achieves anything! Our Aquaroll and on-board tank are filled at least once per day, so the water is never stale.  I agree that flushing the system through with Puriclean or Milton might help, but it's not an issue we came across with our new van.

Like KjellNN, I use Puriclean to keep my water system clean.

But before you do that, I'd try and isolate where the unpleasant taste arises. Does the water taste unpleasant straight from the tap or just when it is boiled for tea? If it's the latter, the kettle needs cleaning or replacing. How clean is your water tank or container [is it food grade?]? That might be the cause.

I would be tempted to get the dealer to sort it out if it is the caravan's water system as it should not have been supplied in such a state.

Perhaps  Cy  or  Admiral  have  the  definitive  answer  to  this  problem  ! 

I believe this is a Bailey caravan, did they not have some problems with an unpleasant taste due to the type of pipes used a few years back?

Could it be something similar?

I can recommend Puriclean too.

David 

Just been fixing this on my Bailey Senator as I was getting fed up of having to fill the jug all the time. First you need to discover where the smell/taste is occuring.

1.  Start with your own tap water.  Fill a container, seal it and leave overnight.  Taste and make tea from it in the morning. If OK on to next step.

2. Use your fill hose to do the above.

3. Use your fill hose to part fill your AquaRoll or similar. Do the same as 1 above.

4. Still finding the water OK - then it is in the van. Use the AquaRoll and pump water through tap to taste and tea.

5. And if there is an onboard tank part fill it, leave overnight and taste and tea.

You will now have an idea what part of the system is adding the taste, but I would still treat all the above parts with the Puriclean, and at a slightly stronger concentration than stated on the tub. Also, overnight soak if possible. If there is an onboard tank, remember to run the solution into the drain pipe and the overflow.  Also, run through the hot system as well - not that I advocate drinking the hot water, but to ensure there is no back contamination from the hot system.

Then do it all again, at least from the point where you established the taste was added.

Remember that the favourite brand of tea you use at home can taste vile using water from another location. Same reason one should not put tap water in whisky - unless you are at the distillery!

Thanks for your advice everyone.  Much appreciated