Motorhome arrival - fill up then find pitch or?

🤭 I do use sink for this, but the mouthwash rinse sort of disinfects the waste tank🤣 Very occasionally we get a bit of waste tank smell, even though we empty it daily, and after each trip. We have tried all sorts to keep it fresh down the years, including the old “rolla cola” (cheap Coke) trick. A good glug of undiluted Zoflora seems the best thing. 

Yes, we just take bowl to waste point. We use our MH daily, so don’t bother with waste master, but a good idea if staying on a site without moving. We carry a collapsible bucket, so if staying in, just run waste into this, and empty at waste point. We are lucky as our tap is quite high compared with a lot of outfits, so bucket fits under easily.

Never bother, seems to me you are making life harder for yourselves when motorhoming is about relaxing and being easy. All waste water goes into my tank and have never had any problems. I carry a length of old coaxial cable to stuff up the outlet pipe on the rare occasions I get a blockage. That soon removes any blockage in the pipes and a dose of tank cleaner as necessary keeps the system smelling sweet.

Getting back to protocols, if I need water on arrival, I find my pitch after checking in, mark it as occupied, then go for water.

peedee

That’s rather contradictory, PD. You’ve never had any problems yet you occasionally need to clear a blockage and need to use tank cleaner😂.

I'm with those who pour the washing up water into a service point or hedge as deemed appropriate by the site operator.

We also don’t bother decanting washing up water and release it straight into the tank. Unlike at home however, any particularly messy, and in particular greasy items are wiped off with kitchen paper prior to washing. I use a 100 ml of combined cleaner / freshener in the waste tank when stopping for 3 days, which generally stops any smells. Although at 35 C you are going to get some. All the drains have traps, except for the basin. Therefore as long as you remember to put the plug back in after draining all remains sweet smelling. You soon realise if you’ve left it in when emptying as it bloops and drains slowly.

That’s rather contradictory, PD. You’ve never had any problems yet you occasionally need to clear a blockage and need to use tank cleaner

They are not problems to me TW. On the other hand carrying a bowl of water to a service point some distance away is a wast of time and one I have no desire to do especially in the rain and cold. You might as well take the washing up to the dish washing area. This is a far more sensible approach but still one I do not do.

peedee

Each to their own, PD. 

I was surprised how dirty my waste tank and pipes in and out of it were at the end of that season despite all efforts to eliminate smells and most of those fatty deposits entering the system. We even tried that ‘Roller Cola’ method along with other chemicals and proprietary products will little improvement. Tank Fresh was the best but it really only masked the smells and did not provide a fully clean end result. Much remaining in those unreachable parts and pipes and applications had to be regularly applied, particularly in warm weather very noticeable on taking the van out of storage or after longer periods of non use. That term nose blind also applied I think. The solution came with changing the van and changing our practice from day one as previously mentioned. No real faff, no smells and no cost for those previously and regularly repeated products. Just a tiny bit of effort. Win, win in our view.

We use kitchen towel to wipe plates down and never put greasy washing up water down the sink.  Despite this, we still get a "whiff" if we travel with grey waste in the tank.

The best solution I have found to combat the smell is to disolve a dishwasher tablet in boiling water and flush it into the tank, then drive to our next detination.

Dishwashing in a baby Eriba was always going to be a problem - tiny sink, no draining board and only cold water on tap. So breakfast things went into an empty bucket which lived under the caravan - and as the  day went by cups, glasses and plates were added, until in the  evening I picked it up and went to the dishwashing place .

In France it was always busy there with jolly  company - always men sent on the same errand as I was  - chatting, joking and friendly. But in UK the dishwashing place was always deserted with no one  else  there. Funny how Brits want to fill tanks with enormous quantities of  water, heat it, wash dishes indoors, and  not venture out. And then dispose of smelly water as described.

Is it the weather or  something to do with national character?