If you use an aquaroll, you can purchase (or make?) a ball-cock mains adaptor and hose. Just connect it to the tap on site and leave the tap on. It will fill the aquaroll half full, then when you use the tap in the caravan the ball cock falls and allows the water back in to the aquaroll a bit like with a toilet water tank.
Most caravan spare stockists will sell you one (at a cost). You can also buy an extra extension water hose too, if the site tap is a bit further away and the existing hose won't reach. I think you can buy a similar device for the water hog too.
See here, and here. I haven't searched especially for the cheapest price, so you may get one cheaper....and someone may be along soon with the instructions how to make one yourself cheaper still.
We take a whale aquasource which simply connects to the drinking water at one end and straight into the van at the whale socket end. Whale advised me that this hose is appropriate and includes a pressure reducer so that the water does not enter under too much pressure.
Then we have a long waste hose with plastic connectors and some variable lengths of hose to make the waste pipe longer if we cannot reach the waste drain with the one long hose
Thats it
Phil
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You can also extend your waste water hose to go down the drain that is usually alongside your pitch.
However you do not need to use all or any of these facilities. Although you will be paying extra for a fully serviced pitch, it is up to you whether you use its facilities.
We often use a local site that is all fully serviced pitches and really we only use the direct drain facility. However it is convenient to have the water tap right there to fill up the water butt when we need to .
Quote: Originally posted by cwdc56768 on 13/4/2011
We take a whale aquasource which simply connects to the drinking water at one end and straight into the van at the whale socket end. Whale advised me that this hose is appropriate and includes a pressure reducer so that the water does not enter under too much pressure.
Does this system work both with a submersible pump and with in onboard pump where one has a 'submersible filter'? If you have a 'submersible filter' (like us) and replace it with the whale aquasource (if you can), then you loose the benefit of the filter? We are quite happy with the aquaroll and mains adaptor kit, but I ask the question in case Kevin has a system like mine rather than a submersible pump.
Quote: Originally posted by cwdc56768 on 13/4/2011
We take a whale aquasource which simply connects to the drinking water at one end and straight into the van at the whale socket end. Whale advised me that this hose is appropriate and includes a pressure reducer so that the water does not enter under too much pressure.
Does this system work both with a submersible pump and with in onboard pump where one has a 'submersible filter'? If you have a 'submersible filter' (like us) and replace it with the whale aquasource (if you can), then you loose the benefit of the filter? We are quite happy with the aquaroll and mains adaptor kit, but I ask the question in case Kevin has a system like mine rather than a submersible pump.
Thanks Phil.
Looking at that kit it seems like there is an adapter hosetail/connector that fits on the inlet to the van....I presumed the electric plug bit is ignored.
I would normally use the search for things like this before adding a thread however it always seems to be unavailable
Quote: Originally posted by LobeyDosser on 13/4/2011
However you do not need to use all or any of these facilities. Although you will be paying extra for a fully serviced pitch, it is up to you whether you use its facilities.
If its there and I can use it or have paid to use it I will thats for sure....anything for an easier life me
You will need a "Y" join to cannect both drain outlets into one and then down the drain. See here.
I usually carry a meter and a half of spare wastehose just in case the drain is further away.
christ thats rude, "water hog adaptor" its a ball cock £10 at the tops, two hose conns £5 tops, and garden hose and they get £48 for it I must be rethinking my job
After pricing up the bits, I found the best price option for the device to keep your Aquaroll topped up was one of these here on ebay, really worked well on price by the time you'd got the bits.
With regards to the direct feeds kits (Whale Aquasource and Truma variant), although they have pressure reducers on them, you can risk flooding. I have come across two families last year where their vans internal pipework failed and they each suffered flooded vans as a result. The direct feeds will continue to feed water under pressure, where as the float type system (that just keeps the Aquaroll fed via a float-valve) calls for water on demand as a tap is opened and works at a very much reduced water pressure.
<<< christ thats rude, "water hog adaptor" its a ball cock £10 at the tops, two hose conns £5 tops, and garden hose and they get £48 for it I must be rethinking my job>>>
Actually I would not use any mains water device.
If I was so lazy that I required a mains water hook up, I would be looking for another type of holiday.
I am already working outside to check the gas level and empty to Loo, so rolling a barrel 20 yards to the water tap can hardly be classed as a chore.
I do use the drain when I have the chance because I do not like the smell of standing grey water, but that is a personal prefrence.
A cable tie is very useful to fix the end of the (extended) waste pipe onto the drain so that it stays in place. Worked very well last weekend. Someone suggested a right angle connector in the end of the hose so that the waste disappears vertically and doesn't splash across the drain. Mine wouldn't fit in the end though ! I may have to use a straight connector too !
We also used the Aquaroll ball valve kit (screws into the side of the Aquaroll - some older ones don't have a side opening though). It was brilliant ! We did have to buy an extra bit of hose and a connector though in order to reach. But we do turn it off at the mains when we go out for the day and at night.
We booked the site unaware that all the pitches were fully serviced - a very nice surprise.
Quote: Originally posted by LobeyDosser on 13/4/2011
If I was so lazy that I required a mains water hook up, I would be looking for another type of holiday.
Get real in every walk of life we cut corners and adapt to make things easier for ourselves.......when was the last time you went out and caught your own dinner
One other thing, we are on a super pitch for the season and the water tap requires an adapter that I've never seen anywhere else before. Its not like any of the standard hose tap connectors.
Its a big black thing that fits one end into the hose and the other into the mains supply, with a trigger type clasp to hold it in place .
The "tap " isnt a tap as such just a hole in the mains tower. (rather like the electric mains hookup )
I have searched the web and cant find anything resembling this fitting , we had ours given to us by a caravanning neighbour .
Never used a service pitch anywhere else so have no idea if this fitting is required on other sites.
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