drinking water

[Johnandcarols]

Still new to RV life, but we have a quick question regarding water hookup to “city” water: does this water go into the fresh water tank or does it go directly to the faucets? Just not sure if our “fresh” water tank stays stagnant if we use the city water hookup. Thanks!

[Bob Denman]

City water goes right to your faucets.

[getzold]

We use the Berkey water filter system both in the RV and our home. A little pricey, but it will filter thousands of gallons before a replacement filter is needed and the Travel size is perfect for us.

https://www.berkeyfilters.com/

[Johnandcarols]

Thanks so much, Bob Denman! We knew you’d hop right onto this and give us the answer. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[macdaddy1111]

Originally Posted by Lt Keefer

62 years of drinking out of the hose and still kicking. I clean the freshwater tank about once a year and in 40 years of camping I have had zero cases of waterborne diseases. I do drink bottled water on the golf course because most used recycled wastewater but at home and in the camper it is straight from the tap.

I grew up drinking and swimming in Camp Lejeune water and still kicking!

[Karen Beck]

We use this in RV and house. Have yet to replace filter? Water is great slim line fits in refrigerator or on counter.

[Bob Denman]

Originally Posted by Johnandcarols

Thanks so much, Bob Denman! We knew you’d hop right onto this and give us the answer. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Glad to help; but lots of folks in here would have been happy to answer your question.
I just got here firstest!

[roadrunner255]

[QUOTE=macdaddy1111;248117]I grew up drinking and swimming in Camp Lejeune water and still kicking!

https://www.tampabay.com/news/milita...-camp/2309435/

[Bob Denman]

Macdaddy1111 is tougher and meaner...

[macdaddy1111]

[QUOTE=roadrunner255;248147]

Originally Posted by macdaddy1111

I grew up drinking and swimming in Camp Lejeune water and still kicking!

https://www.tampabay.com/news/milita...-camp/2309435/

I know, I am already 100 percent VA from crap I got in Gulf War that fried my lungs and and ate up my leg bones! Don't get no more!

I was in old day care behind main gate from 3 to 5 sucking on milk made with Lejeune water and swimming it at the O club pool!!!

[trek5]

Originally Posted by t0lbert

hey all.


im tired of brining heavy cases of bottled water, i would love to have bottled water quality coming out of our kitchen sink.



has anyone done this?


thanks for any advice.


we have a thor hurricane (2017)

I installed one of these and it filters the water to bottled water “no taste”.

https://www.multipure.com/store/aquaversa.html

[MLP]

This is the best I found a three stage filter from Clearsource.com and added a UV water purifier as well.


https://www.clearsourcerv.com/produc...-filter-system

[Tuscany 40]

https://www.berkeyfilters.com/

Looks very interesting for RV life. We have not yet pulled the trigger, but thinking about it.

[DavidJoyce1]

We purchased a Clean 02 Water Filter it connects directly to the water faucet takes out the heavy particulates then filters through the additional water filter that simply screws into the Clean 02 Filtering to 1ppm. Very Please with this system...

https://www.clear2o.com

[Cwray]

I installed a 3-stage filtration system under the bench seat closest to our kitchen sink for our 2019 Hurricane 34J. It's basically the same as what I have at home for the 3-Stage-plus-RO setup for our drinking water. The space is available, but fairly too awkward to use for convenient storage.

Knowing that the RO membrane is way to slow to be used for anything other than a few glasses of water at a time, I opted to forgo the RO stage and keep the flow rate high enough to use for the whole RV rig (showers and everything).

I like the clear plastic containers, so I can visually check them to see when they need replacement. While they usually only need it once a year (part time RV'ing family of 5), on one of the trips we noticed that the water had a bit of a well water taste and smell. The quality of that RV campground's water was so poor that the first two of the filters were browned out, and the first one had begun to get that slimy feel from so much iron being pulled out. -Yuck!

To each their own I suppose, as most of my RV circle just brings bottled water to drink and only showers with RV Park water. A couple of families just put that $10 blue camco filter outside on the hose and call that good enough. They poke fun at me and tease "gimme some of that tripled filter water!", but they all like hanging out at our RV and like being able to pull from the faucets when thirsty. They even more enjoy being able to have us dump extra ice made from the water into their coolers and cups.

Nerding out completely, I did a couple of additional things. I put in a bypass hose for the 3-stage system along with a Watchdog water sensor because these things can leak in the best of conditions (as compared to the rolling earthquakes from driving and 100+ degree storage conditions of an RV). The other thing is that I got an adapter for the 10' hose I bought to run from the outside kitchen into my clean water tank. I like being able to fill that up to at least 1/3 to have a water supply on hand while driving or parked somewhere. I generally put a splash of water treatment in there if the water is going to stay in the tank for a while.

[Bob Denman]

https://www.thorforums.com/forums/at...1&d=1597081656

[Lt Keefer]

[QUOTE=macdaddy1111;248149]

Originally Posted by roadrunner255

I know, I am already 100 percent VA from crap I got in Gulf War that fried my lungs and and ate up my leg bones! Don't get no more!

I was in old day care behind main gate from 3 to 5 sucking on milk made with Lejeune water and swimming it at the O club pool!!!

Thanks for your service. I made it through my 20 with relative ease.

[t0lbert]

Originally Posted by Cwray

I installed a 3-stage filtration system under the bench seat closest to our kitchen sink for our 2019 Hurricane 34J. It's basically the same as what I have at home for the 3-Stage-plus-RO setup for our drinking water. The space is available, but fairly too awkward to use for convenient storage.

Knowing that the RO membrane is way to slow to be used for anything other than a few glasses of water at a time, I opted to forgo the RO stage and keep the flow rate high enough to use for the whole RV rig (showers and everything).

I like the clear plastic containers, so I can visually check them to see when they need replacement. While they usually only need it once a year (part time RV'ing family of 5), on one of the trips we noticed that the water had a bit of a well water taste and smell. The quality of that RV campground's water was so poor that the first two of the filters were browned out, and the first one had begun to get that slimy feel from so much iron being pulled out. -Yuck!

To each their own I suppose, as most of my RV circle just brings bottled water to drink and only showers with RV Park water. A couple of families just put that $10 blue camco filter outside on the hose and call that good enough. They poke fun at me and tease "gimme some of that tripled filter water!", but they all like hanging out at our RV and like being able to pull from the faucets when thirsty. They even more enjoy being able to have us dump extra ice made from the water into their coolers and cups.

Nerding out completely, I did a couple of additional things. I put in a bypass hose for the 3-stage system along with a Watchdog water sensor because these things can leak in the best of conditions (as compared to the rolling earthquakes from driving and 100+ degree storage conditions of an RV). The other thing is that I got an adapter for the 10' hose I bought to run from the outside kitchen into my clean water tank. I like being able to fill that up to at least 1/3 to have a water supply on hand while driving or parked somewhere. I generally put a splash of water treatment in there if the water is going to stay in the tank for a while.

i was just going to do this and keep the fixture in a old milk crate when we use it...in line with the hoses from spigot to our city water connection... why did you put inside with so many problems that could arise?


hope you see im not saying its bad, just looking for information...havent really decided what im going to do with my setup...just got it.

[Cwray]

That’s actually a very good question. For me, my family has so much cra—-er, I mean stuff that we bring, basement storage is at a premium. I considered just having the equipment in the cabin of the RV and then just bringing it outside when we set up. But I’ve also lost the battle of not having things loose and stacked around inside while driving. Unfortunately, while driving the RV we run the risk of death-by-impaled-bananas, coffee maker, dog food bag, kid’s school bags, etc...

I found that space under the bench by accident one day, and was overjoyed to hear my family decide accessing that storage space was too much of a pain. So, my water treatment equipment was going to go in there anyway, and I thought “why not just make it work while in there anyway? One less thing to set up.”

To be honest, if I had the outside basement room to put the 3-stage equipment in a milk crate—I would. If I did that, then I’d also consider one of those portable mini water softeners and chain it after the milk crate. The wife gets hives/itchy skin on her legs while camping, and we think that having soft water might help with that.

[lwmcguire]

Originally Posted by Cwray

That’s actually a very good question. For me, my family has so much cra—-er, I mean stuff that we bring, basement storage is at a premium. I considered just having the equipment in the cabin of the RV and then just bringing it outside when we set up. But I’ve also lost the battle of not having things loose and stacked around inside while driving. Unfortunately, while driving the RV we run the risk of death-by-impaled-bananas, coffee maker, dog food bag, kid’s school bags, etc...

I found that space under the bench by accident one day, and was overjoyed to hear my family decide accessing that storage space was too much of a pain. So, my water treatment equipment was going to go in there anyway, and I thought “why not just make it work while in there anyway? One less thing to set up.”

To be honest, if I had the outside basement room to put the 3-stage equipment in a milk crate—I would. If I did that, then I’d also consider one of those portable mini water softeners and chain it after the milk crate. The wife gets hives/itchy skin on her legs while camping, and we think that having soft water might help with that.

Whatever equipment is outside it sure is best to tuck it under anyplace out of the direct sunlight. Same with extra hose length, tuck it under the RV out of direct sun

I use a 5 filter type system with a 75 gpd RO and simply fill up my tank and then put it in the tote and back in storage. Luckily I have excess storage so that isnt an issue.

Anyone thinking of using RO you will most likely need to get one with a booster pump to get decent rejection and flow