Wot
Is it april the first, or has mast listeria set in!!
or is it just me!!
Abbey Owner wrote" Yes i clean the pipes to get rid of the grease and fat and put bleach
down it, throughout my years of caravvaning i have never been ill.
How do you get fat and grease in the clean water suppy, Waste maybe? but then again grease and fat should be desposed of separatly as not only does it collect in the pipes "it's a bu**er to get out of the waste hog full of cold effluent.
rogerL wrote" there are no controls
on site pipework and often no regular checks either.
true but when was your home supply last checked or the main outside your house renewed
also, ,Site supplies will
always have been used by other caravanners so you have no guarantee
that all their connected hoses are in acceptable condition, nor indeed
that the water point has not been used for cleaning things, like
dog-soiled boots.
sorry Roger but I don't see where your comming from a pipe connected to a tap at approximately 4 bars cannot contaminate the water supply only the "tap" this I would have thought was obvious
if your really picky "like me" always wipe the tap with a damp soapy cloth before connecting the filler pipe, as for cleaning boots ect same answer, although I allways thought thats what the sink was for in the laundry as this is where most seem to wash things.
graham_somersham wrote" You might sterilise your water and pipes but do you clean the pipes. I
would rather not ingest or wash in dead algae and bacteria which is all
that happens with sterilisation. That said, a water filter will not
prevent either, it is a crude method of removing particles from the
water but not too effective at removing bacteria or viruses.
I find this an odd statment!!. because after serilising!! the pipes tank ect would have been rinsed through with plenty of clean water with the filter removed, furthermore any dead algae ect, (assuming the pump and hog have also been cleaned) would be on the onboard side of the filter fitted to the water housing, so no the filter would not remove this unless a seperate inline charcoal filter was fitted under the sink, but thats a seperate issue.
I think Damian is 100% correct here and this is the reason I believe so,
1, 99.9% of all sites use mains supply, this is under pressure so no external contamintation on site is possible "boyles law and all that". the sites. that do not have mains water "we have been to 3 in 40+years of vanning had signs on the taps saying water not from mains "boil" before consuming,
2, if the van water system has been properly cleaned the only contamination could come from the water hog while it is stood at the side of the van, providing the cap is on properly and tight this should not be a problem,
3, filters can be expensive if the van is used all year @ £12 or so a throw going though 5 or 6 in a year is a nice week somewhere.
4. if you are really worried about water contamination use a seperate container just for drinking water or buy bottled water allthough the quality of this may not be as good as from the mains supply,
I don't know why all the worry over the water in the van, there is no need to, if there is anything wrong with it a filter won't help.