hi people very new to this caravaning bought our first van a 1995 eccles emerald se been out a few times but for some reason the water out of the tap tastes revolting any idea on how we can rectify this is there any type of filter i can clean or change(the wife is a coffee freak and wants a brew soon as we get there every time????? cheers
untasty water
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think you will find all caravans are the same. water ok to wash but not drink. try flushing the system with milton & for your coffee do what my wife does use a 5 litre container.
Have had similar problems in the past and have found best solution is to use Pura Clean to flush system - however we also use bottled water for tea coffee etc - even though we have a water filter fitted as standard (and changed annually)
Hi We use a washed out milk container for drinking water, however I have just replaced the pipe with some from B&Q at 1.98/mtr. Seems fine when trying at home, but not yet used in anger. Not 100% sure it's food quality though, but you gotta digest a few bugs!
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Hello Duncan
Do you use food grade hose?
When we first started caravaning i just used a piece of garden hose to fill the aquaroll. When we upgraded our caravan we bought food grade hose and used that from the tap to the adaptor in the aquaroll. We then noticed that the water tasted of TCP. After trying many different ways to get rid of the taste,without success, I tried using the garden hose again and the water tasted as it should. So we returned the food grade and bought a new garden hose.
Will
Do you use food grade hose?
When we first started caravaning i just used a piece of garden hose to fill the aquaroll. When we upgraded our caravan we bought food grade hose and used that from the tap to the adaptor in the aquaroll. We then noticed that the water tasted of TCP. After trying many different ways to get rid of the taste,without success, I tried using the garden hose again and the water tasted as it should. So we returned the food grade and bought a new garden hose.
Will
Hello Duncan,
You describe the water as having a foul taste. This could be down to two common causes that have been described many times in this forum.
If the water tastes of TCP, then it is the hose/pipe work which is imparting the taste to the water flowing through it. Solution is to have all the pipe work replaced.
If the water is brackish - musty etc, then it is almost certainly the pipe work which has become infested with a mould. If the infestation is relatively new, then it can be possible to flush it out using proprietary cleaners such as Puri-tabs, Hydrogen peroxide, or Chempro-SDP always follow the instructions on the packets for dilution soaking times and final flushing.
Sadly if the infestation has been in place for some time, the 'roots' of the spoors can become ingrained in the interior walls of the pipe work, and will not be fully removed by flushing. Again the solution is total pipe work replacement.
You describe the water as having a foul taste. This could be down to two common causes that have been described many times in this forum.
If the water tastes of TCP, then it is the hose/pipe work which is imparting the taste to the water flowing through it. Solution is to have all the pipe work replaced.
If the water is brackish - musty etc, then it is almost certainly the pipe work which has become infested with a mould. If the infestation is relatively new, then it can be possible to flush it out using proprietary cleaners such as Puri-tabs, Hydrogen peroxide, or Chempro-SDP always follow the instructions on the packets for dilution soaking times and final flushing.
Sadly if the infestation has been in place for some time, the 'roots' of the spoors can become ingrained in the interior walls of the pipe work, and will not be fully removed by flushing. Again the solution is total pipe work replacement.
I have posted this problem before and never got to the bottom of it.
We have just come back from Suffolk and had the same problem.
I dont think it has anything to do with the pipes its just the water.
We use a seperate water carrier filled from the site tap for drinking, but still sometimes has a TCP taste, Its never consistant.
I have filled a glass with water before retiring and it tastes fine but during the night its awefull. Its a complete mystery.
It changes at will.
We have just come back from Suffolk and had the same problem.
I dont think it has anything to do with the pipes its just the water.
We use a seperate water carrier filled from the site tap for drinking, but still sometimes has a TCP taste, Its never consistant.
I have filled a glass with water before retiring and it tastes fine but during the night its awefull. Its a complete mystery.
It changes at will.
Icefrog is incorrect in saying that all caravans are the same (foul tasting water). In forty years of caravanning, from a ten-footer with self-fitted footpump to our last Hurricane we have never had anything but excellent quality water drunk straight from the tap.
Once a year we treated the Aquarolls with Milton which was flushed through the system followed by a couple of Aquarolls of clean water from our domestic supply and that seemed to clear the pipes of anything lying in them over the winter.
Rob S.
P.S. Don't know what it might have been like in a limestone area.
Once a year we treated the Aquarolls with Milton which was flushed through the system followed by a couple of Aquarolls of clean water from our domestic supply and that seemed to clear the pipes of anything lying in them over the winter.
Rob S.
P.S. Don't know what it might have been like in a limestone area.
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