As we are new to motor home only had a week if the site has no m/h gray waste outlet do you have to carry the water home what do you do or stop at a grid on the road
I presume you mean they don't have a drive over grey water disposal.
Motorhomers use a bucket to transport their grey water to the designated area, some smaller campsites will ask you to put it in the hedge. We have never been to a campsite that doesn't have some way of getting rid of grey water.
I believe it is actually illegal to put it down roadside drains.
Tina
We use a waste container with the waste pipe in it then take it to the grey waste point. Or you could use a Wastemaster or something like you would have for a caravan.
Quote: Originally posted by Rob and Tina on 15/5/2019
We have never been to a campsite that doesn't have some way of getting rid of grey water.
I believe it is actually illegal to put it down roadside drains.
Tina
These days, it seems MH folk expect a drive-over drain, but they're still the exception on many sites. We have a black plastic canister and usually use that even if there is a MH service point. A bucket wouldn't go under our drain, the outlet is too low.
It's my pet peeve seeing people empty their grey water onto the hardstand on site. I confront people when I see it, and they always have a cocky reply - the eyes wide "oh I didn't realise", or "don't worry, it's only shower water, not the kitchen waste" (same tank...). One site manager told me they'd barred someone who drove around the site roads with their waste outlet open. The worst was seeing a MH parked up for its holidays overlooking a beautiful little harbour in Galloway, a huge pool of dirty water with bits in it draining down the Tarmac.
So the answer is - go for 3 days until you get to a site (your waste tank is bigger than your fresh water - if you run out of fresh, your waste is close to full), or empty it into a container & empty that responsibly: down a drain, or under a bush if there isn't one, but never ever ever into fresh water.
Echo above. Never really been to a site that doesn’t have some form of grey waste drain. We also use a collapsible bucket to empty tank daily when parked up. Don’t usually let it get too full.
We have also, in times of dry weather, been asked to chuck it shrubbery etc.
On the odd occasion, if last stop has say, been non site park up, we have emptied it at home
It is 2019. Do not empty any water grey or otherwise down roadside drains. There is a very anti- MH fraternity. This will just exaggerate that. Caravans use a waste hog. Which is a little difficult to carry in a MH, but any low bowl/bucket will do.
We have travelled off site behind MH's with water pouring from beneath them. It is a disgusting thing to do.
We use a low plastic bucket that was bought with bird feed suet balls in it. This now has a second life and is just the right size to get it under the pipe outlet. It is emptied daily, either at the site waste water outlet or (with permission) alongside the hedges on site.
It's me again about the wares in m/h when you fill the water do you carry that around when you moved on ,just empty the waste water will get the hang of this m/h thanks
There are two views about travelling with fresh tanks full. One point is to keep them full, as you might not be able to fill up when travelling, especially in Europe, if not using camp sites. The other point is why carry about unnecessary weight if not needed, so some carry only a few litres when travelling then fill up when on a site. It is a personal choice. Personally I travel with a nearly full tank, 90 litres, because I mainly motorhome in Europe.
Depends....it you are going from site to site, then travel only with enough for pit stops. We carry enough in tank to use loo when travelling. Loo flush is fed from main tank.
If have a few off grid stops between sites than we travel full fresh, empty waste.
So it’s an individual thing depending on where and what you intend doing. As an aside....I wouldn’t travel with full tanks over say.....a road like the one to the lecht, or any other singnificanlty steep road.
Thanks for all the help must likely be back with more problems oh could be the loo next got all this pink and blue liquid to put in never used the loo yet when do you use it .said the will be more question sorry 🚐🙄
The blue liquid goes into the receiving tank(cassette). The pink stuff goes into the water tank for the loo NOT the fresh water tank. Some toilets use water from the fresh water tank for the flush, while others have a separate tank built into the loo. If your loo is fed from your main water tank, some people use the pink stuff in a spray bottle to help keep the loo clean
jmg44 - what's great about your post is you asked for advice - thank you and good luck!
There's quite a lot of threads on toilet chemicals and disposal. I've got quite cross on some of them because people think it's okay to dump contents down public toilets - where I live and many other places public toilets are on septic tanks and the wrong chemicals just destroy the whole system costing locals £hundreds of thousands. One particular person a few years back decided to use a drain in our main car park - it destroyed a brand new water treatment plant and system - costing a fortune to completely replace.
Sadly, we've already had three known incidents of motor-homers emptying their toilet cassettes this year - two in watercourses and one in bushes by Tobermory's main carpark.
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