Water transfer

We just fill the internal water container in the caravan with a watering can -  no aquaroll, no external water hog, no pump, no pipes, no ball valves, no connections to taps, no paying for special serviced pitches.

Write your comments here... So what is the difference?, you are using one container to fill another like everyone else.   

Some friends of ours had a Carribbean,and it had an inboard pump that with a two way valve meant you could ether fill the on board tank of use an external water supply (Aqua roll) which was their usual method rather than fill up inboard tank(big)

Yes, that's how our system works too.

We just fill the internal water container in the caravan with a watering can -  no aquaroll, no external water hog, no pump, no pipes, no ball valves, no connections to taps, no paying for special serviced pitches.

It'd be bloody hard work filling my 12 gallon onboard tank a gallon at a time ..... I'd wear a path to the nearest tap! And all water through my taps has to come via the tank, no alternative.

I absolutely agree with you MM.  In general my belief in the superiority of continental vans. But the English made aquaroll seems so much the best way of transporting water.  I cannot life of me understand why it has not been adopted everywhere. 

When you have got 12 gallons of water onboard - 55 kilos weight - do you empty it all out again when you go to the next site? What on earth do you guys do with all that water? Do you drink the stuff ? 

Yes I drink it.  But that a whole different thread isn't it? 

If it's any help, our Bailey Barcelona has a two way valve under the offside front seat.  Everything fills from the Aquaroll.  Turn the valve one way and it fills the onboard tank - surprisingly through the pump in that tank.  Once filled, turn the valve back and its delivering water from the Aquaroll again. Selecting either Internal or External (pump) on the main switch panel determines where the water is drawn from.  Aquaroll invariably runs out half way through a shower!! - so having an inboard tank is a real bonus plus it doesn't freeze in the winter.

The advantage of an inboard tank is that your heater has less work to do and the water temperature supplied to mixer taps is more stable.

An inboard tank may give you greater capacity but you can only take a longer shower if that’s matched by a similar capacity in the waste tank. 

When you have got 12 gallons of water onboard - 55 kilos weight - do you empty it all out again when you go to the next site? What on earth do you guys do with all that water? Do you drink the stuff ? 

Write your comments here...Well what we do is fill the onboard tank according to our stay. It is not a precise job but I bet we don't waste anymore than people without an onborad tank. I will add that having a caravan we never travel with water in the tank as the tank is at the rear  and would cause stability problems.

ET.....I would think that those of us with the onboard tanks are more likely to also have the separate shower compartment and therefore more likely to use the shower in the van, so that uses a fair amount of water, then there is the washing up, and of course cooking and drinking.

We manage the onboard and Aquaroll water so that we don't have huge amounts of excess water when we come to the end of a stay.

We generally leave 10 litres  in the tank for use en route.