Watson524
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Hi there,
I'm not an RV owner, I'm a land owner so I hope it's ok to ask a few questions?
We have a piece of land in Northeast PA that until recently had a mobile home on it (so electric pole, septic and water already there). We burned down the mobile home last year and always thought it'd be a great spot to make an RV pad out of since we're close to a large recreational lake and the campsites there are often full. We don't need to worry about zoning or anything where we live. We'd want to do this as a full season rental and we're ok with a dog or two, whereas the campsites around the lake, all owned by the power company that owns the lake don't allow dogs.
The spot where the mobile home was is already relatively flat so it'd be some final grading and then getting some crushed stone or modified in and rolled down which is easy enough for us to do. My questions are around the hookups.
We have a 4" stub up we cut off and screwed a cap into for the septic and in line with that but a few feet away is where the water line came into the mobile home from the well. It also includes the wires for the well which sites back about 40' into the woods. Then there's the electric pole that's about 12' back from the septic/water line which would get a new meter installed. Had a guy come today that is thinking about buying an RV and renting from us next season so we're starting to move on some things.
1.) The septic part seems straight forward, he unscrews the 4" cap and screws in a fitting to his waste line I assume?
2.) On the electric, I assume after the meter base, we'd install a box that feeds either the 20/30/50a "plug" that he could plug a cord into from his RV and then just flip the appropriate break to turn the "plug" on?
3.) And my big question is on the well..... since we just have the pump in the well and no pressure tank like in my house, I think we'd have to have a spigot he could hook to to fill his holding tank by flipping a breaker to power the well pump right? And then inside he'd have to run some kind of pump to pump from his fresh water tank to his shower/sinks? How big are fresh water tanks normally? I feel like having to fill a tank might be a bit of a pain but without a pressure tank, which we can't do since there's no building, I don't see another option.
Also if anyone has any thoughts on what you'd like to see in a single summer campsite setup like this, feel free to throw them at me.
thanks in advance for any help or advice.
I'm not an RV owner, I'm a land owner so I hope it's ok to ask a few questions?
We have a piece of land in Northeast PA that until recently had a mobile home on it (so electric pole, septic and water already there). We burned down the mobile home last year and always thought it'd be a great spot to make an RV pad out of since we're close to a large recreational lake and the campsites there are often full. We don't need to worry about zoning or anything where we live. We'd want to do this as a full season rental and we're ok with a dog or two, whereas the campsites around the lake, all owned by the power company that owns the lake don't allow dogs.
The spot where the mobile home was is already relatively flat so it'd be some final grading and then getting some crushed stone or modified in and rolled down which is easy enough for us to do. My questions are around the hookups.
We have a 4" stub up we cut off and screwed a cap into for the septic and in line with that but a few feet away is where the water line came into the mobile home from the well. It also includes the wires for the well which sites back about 40' into the woods. Then there's the electric pole that's about 12' back from the septic/water line which would get a new meter installed. Had a guy come today that is thinking about buying an RV and renting from us next season so we're starting to move on some things.
1.) The septic part seems straight forward, he unscrews the 4" cap and screws in a fitting to his waste line I assume?
2.) On the electric, I assume after the meter base, we'd install a box that feeds either the 20/30/50a "plug" that he could plug a cord into from his RV and then just flip the appropriate break to turn the "plug" on?
3.) And my big question is on the well..... since we just have the pump in the well and no pressure tank like in my house, I think we'd have to have a spigot he could hook to to fill his holding tank by flipping a breaker to power the well pump right? And then inside he'd have to run some kind of pump to pump from his fresh water tank to his shower/sinks? How big are fresh water tanks normally? I feel like having to fill a tank might be a bit of a pain but without a pressure tank, which we can't do since there's no building, I don't see another option.
Also if anyone has any thoughts on what you'd like to see in a single summer campsite setup like this, feel free to throw them at me.
thanks in advance for any help or advice.