Motorhome Water Sanitisation Using Puriclean
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- How I sanitise and clean the water tanks in our Swift Bolero 714SB Motorhome using Puriclean.
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New to motorhome life I find your videos very helpful and informative thank you for taking the time to show us ....
gareth lane Thanks. Spread the word and share. Cheers!
Thanks bob very methodical on drain and cleaning of tanks things like that are essential to know I 😊 thank you sir
Getting a motorhome soon - first time. Will be using your vids for advice - cheers Bob
Thanks you, that's great news.
No idea what to do hahaha - the guy who I’m getting it from will do a 2 to 3 hour handover - going for an Autotrail Cheyenne 630 - 12 years old
Hi Bob
Really good information for us newcomers to motorhome life.
Do you add any of this solution to your water when you refill your tank after rinse.
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No, do not add Puriclean after refilling with fresh water.
You only clean your tank on a motohome if you are going to drink tap water me my self drink bottle water and use motohome water for washing in you can get legionnaires disease witch can live in tanks so you need to take care every motorhome people I know don't drink tap water out the motohome you can from your house
Good video Bob, maybe you could have put the full strength solution in the aqua roll then pumped it Ito your tank and through the system just like you would do normally?
Seems a good idea certainly less water waste!!!!
Thank you Bob very usefull video as usual
Thank you
Very useful video.
Picking up our first MH in a few weeks which we are renting. Any tips or health advice when we pick up the rental as obviously we do not know the history or when the water system was last cleaned.
Any other tips on what to watch out for on a rental MH would be much appreciated
How often do you sanitise the tanks and pipes
I try and do this about every six months. As for rental, I would check that you have everything you need for the basics, filling hose, electric cable, knives and forks, pots and pans, ramps etc., before you set off.
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Trevor Smith thank you!
Thanks for that Bob, next thing on my list. I know your have a Swift at the moment (likewise), is there a in line water filter that I need to remove that you know of?
Not that I'm aware of, there is a surge damper but I have no in line filter.
Thanks for the video, how often would you do this?
Twice a year, beginning and end of the season.
Hi Bob. I just found your channel. Your video title caused me to watch and prompts my comment. I live in the central USA. By listening to your manner of speech, I can guess that you are in the UK. You and I use language differently.
I am a nurse with a background in preventive medicine and water sanitation. I want to point out that there is a difference between sterilisation (sterilization) and sanitization. Sanitizing is actually what you are doing in the video. Sanitizing is the killing or removal of most and especially of the harmful micro-organisms. Sterilization is the killing of ALL micro-organisms. Sterilization is a process used in medicine to prepare surgical instruments. It most often involves steam under pressure or ethylene oxide gas.
True sterilization isn't practical outside of medical and a few industrial environments. Sanitization is used in food service and other environments. The RV's fresh water system is actually being sanitized instead of truly sterilized. I am not criticizing your use of the language, and probably your UK viewers understand exactly what you mean. But for others, I feel that it is important to make the distinction.
It is important at the beginning of the season, end of the season and any time one believes that the water system might be contaminated, to sanitize the system. Your video showed one product available to help accomplish this. Sometimes though, one might find oneself in need of treating the water system without having an available supply of this or a similar product. What would one do in that case?
Here is how I sanitize my RV's water system. I fill the fresh water tank using water and ordinary household bleach in a ratio of one quarter cup of bleach to ten gallons of water. (about 60 ml bleach to each 40 liters water.) This produces a solution of approximately 50 ppm chlorine.
I then start the pump and run water through the lines till a faint smell of bleach occurs at each tap. Then I let the water sit for 30-40 minutes. After the time has elapsed, I drain the tank and lines completely. Then I fill the tank and lines with fresh water from a good quality source. (i.e. the municipal water supply in my house)
If the water is clear and from a trusted source, (not from a lake or stream for example) then a 50 ppm solution of chlorine with a 30 minute contact time will be sufficient to kill harmful bacteria in the water and render it safe to drink. If the water comes from a less trusted or a questionable source, a 100 ppm solution should be used along with a 4 hour contact time. (100 ppm solution uses one half cup of bleach to each 10 gallons of water.) The remainder of the procedure is the same.
Don't forget to treat the water heater or boiler as it is sometimes called. The bleach solution is safe for all types of piping, tanks and most water filter systems as well, so there isn't a need to isolate your filter in this process.
If a faint smell or taste of bleach remains, I wait 24 hours and repeat the draining of the tank and lines. Then I fill the tank and lines with clean fresh water and the system is ready to be used. The water in the system is then safe for drinking. I don't need special commercially prepared products to sanitize my RV's water supply system , although those products are commonly offered for sale here in the USA as well.
Whatever method or product you use, please follow the manufacturer's instructions and be safe in handling chemicals of any kind. If in doubt, consult a qualified expert.
Thanks for your reply. I stand corrected, sanitisation. I would say however, that Puriclean is safe on stainless steel boilers, but bleach will stain and possibly damage stainless steel.
I have read many times to not use bleach or Milton in a motorhome or caravan water system. It can damage metal parts such as hot water tanks. But useful to know the difference between sterilisation and sanitisation 👍🏼
I'm curious Bob... Do they list the ingredients on the label of Puriclean? To my knowledge there are basically three agents used to disinfect water and to sanitize water systems. They are chlorine, bromine and iodine. (There may be others, but I don't know of them.)
Iodine is seldom used for anything other than small quantities of emergency drinking water as it leaves a horrible taste and too much iodine can harm a person's health. Bromine is more expensive than chlorine but is just as effective.
If the current recommendations are to avoid chlorine, then perhaps Puriclean is using bromine containing compounds for the active ingredients in their formula. I am neither a chemist nor a metallurgist so my knowledge stops at a certain point.
Personal experience though, shows that water system sanitizing using chlorine has not significantly damaged the water systems of my RV which is over 30 years old.
I'd be grateful if you could point me to the studies which have shown that chlorine damages aluminum tanks. I'd like to read about the concentration of the chlorine solutions used in those studies and the contact times that were studied. If the studies are convincing, I'll change my mind about chlorine and I'll also change my practices regarding my RV's water systems.
"Convincing" would mean that the studies were conducted
(1) Using double-blind scientific method,
(2) By a bias-neutral testing agency (i.e. not done by Puriclean or another company with an interest in making the testing support their own marketing efforts.) and
(3) if the study was duplicated by at least one other testing agency.
Thanks.
clyde alspaugh Thanks, I'm no expert on this but the active ingredient listed is Sodium Dichoroisocyanurate. Puriclean is recommended by the manufacturer and that good enough for me. Also I said stainless steel not aluminium.
Bob Earnshaw I have owned a caravan since 2005 and have used Puriclean since then. It was recommended by many motorhome and caravan owners, along with the dealership.
Hi Bob, thanks for taking the time to share your experience, still waiting to get my first MoHo. Your info-vids are very beneficial. by the way if you're considering selling your Bolero...….
Thanks, I'll bear you in mind :-) . I am oing to the Motorhome and Caravan Show at the NEC next week. You might want to check those videos out. Please subscribe if you haven't already. Thanks.
Already subscribed and pretty much watch all, by the way what go pro do you use?
@@davescadding9149 A Hero 5 Session for driving and Hero 6 for vlogging.
Bob Earnshaw Thanks Bob, appreciated
Hi Bob
Very helpful video as always, can I ask a newbie question when you open the drain valve on the boiler did you run the water pump at the same time and should I have all the taps open when emptying the fresh water tank? Thanks Ian
Open the drain valve, and the taps, let the water drain both out of the fresh water tank and the boiler. By opening the taps you let the water drain down, out of the taps into the tank and out. No need to run the pump while you're doing that.
Bob, very good video, but would you also advise to heat up the water in the boiler, leave overnight, then rinse through ?
Colin Humphries I don't see the need to do that. If you run the hot taps the solution gets into the boiler. I think the main reason to sterilize is the cold water tank.
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Can you do this in your home with the loft tank. ?
I don't see why not. Never done that myself. Just remember to make sure everything is flushed through afterwards.
Hi Bob loved the video. We take delivery of our first motorhome in June and find your videos extremely helpful. This may be a silly question. When you run the water through your taps I assume that it goes into your grey water tank. When you flush the water out of your fresh water tank (without going through your taps) can I assume that there is one flush-out tap under the van or are there two? So much to take in!! Thanks Davy
weebolddavy there will be two tanks with a flush tap on each, one waste tank tap and one fresh water tap.
weebolddavy no question is silly. Two tips - film the handover and read the manuals! You'll forget a lot of what you've been told!
weebolddavy also, have a look at this video czcams.com/video/HiZnsdmivWU/video.html
Thanks Bob I thought that may be the case. I noticed in your Edinburgh video that you suggested that refillable gas was getting harder to get which sent a shiver down my spine as we've ordered a twin Gaslow system. I know that there is an app that maps all the LPG outlets around the country. I just wonder how up to date it is. Just means some careful preplanning and keep it topped up. Thanks again.
I'm sure you'll be fine as long as you can find places to fill up. At least you'll be saving a load whilst you have refillable!
Nice film Bob, the million dollar question, after doing all that, should be drink the water straight from the taps or do you use bottled water?
A Shropshire Lad I don't normally drink from the tank as we've got a Brita Filter jug! It is perfectly safe to do so though.
It’s seems very wasteful on 💦! Does it really require flushing so many times?
You don't want to leave the chemicals in there!
Would you use puri sol in the same way?
Thanks Glenn
I never used Puri Sol, so don't know. If it is safe on stainless steel then follow the instructions.
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Hi Rob, I’m a newbie to owning a Motorhome, quick question… when using an Aquaroll, how do you pump the water into the tank ?? I’ve only used a blue hose pipe from a tap into the filling point on the van …. Thank you
My Swift has an external 12v socket that allows me to use this external pump amzn.to/3rfCyAM
Have a look at this video czcams.com/video/rxLSopAm3sE/video.html around 10:50 - part of a series.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo Thanks for the tip, now on my shopping list, I’ll be getting a kit ordered up & fitted, appreciate the help.
Good video, how often do you steralisethe system?
Normally at the beginning of the spring and end of Autumn.
Hi bob.
Do you leave the filter still in?
Or just run it through.
Any damage?
Thank you.
gary winters Good question. We have no water filter fitted on the van, there is a water strainer fitted before the pump and I can't get to that. So no, there's no filter to change. We used to have an Aquapure inline filter on our previous motorhome and with that I would remove the cartridge. We did not fit it in this motorhome because the filters were expensive and if you think about it, most homes do not have a water filter. We do however use a Brita Filter water jug at home and away for drinking water.
Have an issue doing this as my van is in storage as I can’t park the motorhome by my house but as I’ve just bought one I think I need to do it - any suggestions Bob?
Don't know, if you can't even park outside your house, perhaps use an Aquaroll or two in the storage yard, or maybe they have a water point in storage? Alternatively ask the dealer?
Bob Earnshaw thanks for the reply - there are water points at the storage but I’ll need to contact them to find out if there’s a drainage area as I doubt they’ll appreciate all the water where I’m parked
How many litres of water are wasted through the cleaning process and could the water not be used elsewhere? It the system was filtered would it be necessary still to go through all the hastle?
I had a filter system. The cartridges cost a fortune. You don't need a water filtration system unless you fill up from lakes and rivers.
I guess Dependant on how many litres of water the filter can process it may, to some be worth the cost in comparison of water preparation products and the amount of time it takes to cleanse a system and the amount water wastage during the cleaning of tanks and pipes. Social conscience included.
@@johnrocker2986 Having a filter system was far more trouble and expence than sanitizing a water tank, which I did as well when I had the filter system.
At this rate I am going to be an expert on all things Motorhoming/caravaning without actually owning either.
I just bought water purification tablets for mine
As long as it's safe with your motorhome's boiler, some sterilising agents can damage your Boiler.