Peggyy
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We leave both our tanks closed until time to drain because we were told varmints can come into the rv up the hoses. Also birds will peck holes in the drain hoses. Is this correct?
I don't know about birds pecking holes but my drain hoses usually lasted a year before it started to rot and leak. Even the expensive ones.Peggyy said:We leave both our tanks closed until time to drain because we were told varmints can come into the rv up the hoses. Also birds will peck holes in the drain hoses. Is this correct?
Peggyy said:We leave both our tanks closed until time to drain because we were told varmints can come into the rv up the hoses. Also birds will peck holes in the drain hoses. Is this correct?
SeilerBird said:I don't know about birds pecking holes but my drain hoses usually lasted a year before it started to rot and leak. Even the expensive ones.
I was talking about when I was traveling the country staying in the National Parks. Now that I am parked permanently I have both tanks hard plumbed into the sewer.Rene T said:Tom is your hose right out in the sun? If it is, how about buying a 10' length of PVC gutter and place it over the hose so the sun doesn't cook it.
SeilerBird said:I was talking about when I was traveling the country staying in the National Parks. Now that I am parked permanently I have both tanks hard plumbed into the sewer.
Bugs, e.g. sewer flies are the most likely things to enter via the drain hoses, and they only get as far as the waste tanks. However, with an RV gravity flush toilet, you open the valve to the waste tank for each flush and flies can get in then. We traveled for 20 years and never worried about critters entering via the gray tank, even when we spent 3-4 months at a time in one place with the gray drain open.We leave both our tanks closed until time to drain because we were told varmints can come into the rv up the hoses. Also birds will peck holes in the drain hoses. Is this correct?
Gary RV_Wizard said:We've had sewer flies get into the black waste tank a couple times over 20 years and our black valve is never open except during actual dumping. If the little suckers are in the campground septic system, they seem to scoot right up the line even during that brief time.
Gary RV_Wizard said:We've had sewer flies get into the black waste tank a couple times over 20 years and our black valve is never open except during actual dumping. If the little suckers are in the campground septic system, they seem to scoot right up the line even during that brief time.
Maybe it is the smell of the chemical that attracts the flies.lynnmor said:Or they can come down the vent at any time. Just one more reason to put some kind of chemical in the tank.
The chemicals that are in the solutions that get added to the tank to keep it from smelling. The blue junk is the most popular but there are many others on the market.Ksummers said:What chemical is that?