Check your hoses!

[sande005]

Getting ready for a month long trip, and just got the trailer out of storage. Proceeded to start the sanitizing process. I bought a cheap 2 gal. watering pitcher that I use to premix the bleach in - the spout makes it easier to pour into the gravity fill port on my trailer.
Surprised to see bits of "stuff" floating around in the pitcher. Ick! Dumped that batch, and made new. Even more stuff! Blamed it on the pine trees I was standing under. Moved away, and this time even more stuff!
I need almost 100 ft of hose to get from my house spigot to the trailer, so 4 lengths of hose. Finally started testing each length. 2 were my pricey fabric collapsible "Zero-G" hoses that I really like. About 4 seasons of use. The other two were old Camco white ones, one at least 10 yrs old, usually relegated to emergency use only.
Yep, of course it was the Zero-G's that were putting out "chunks". Bummer. Long flushing, etc. just made it worse.

Bought what was available locally since we leave very soon - cheap white ones, with the bad fittings which are prone to leaking. If there is time will try to pick up new ends for them, and replace with better....

In any event - as part of the sanitizing routine, I'd advise just doing a bucket test as I ended up doing, before just trusting what your hose may be putting into your tank/plumbing. Now I wonder how long this has been happening....at least I use a filter just before it enters the trailer when on city water!

[fmartinmn]

Getting ready for a month long trip, and just got the trailer out of storage. Proceeded to start the sanitizing process. I bought a cheap 2 gal. watering pitcher that I use to premix the bleach in - the spout makes it easier to pour into the gravity fill port on my trailer.
Surprised to see bits of "stuff" floating around in the pitcher. Ick! Dumped that batch, and made new. Even more stuff! Blamed it on the pine trees I was standing under. Moved away, and this time even more stuff!
I need almost 100 ft of hose to get from my house spigot to the trailer, so 4 lengths of hose. Finally started testing each length. 2 were my pricey fabric collapsible "Zero-G" hoses that I really like. About 4 seasons of use. The other two were old Camco white ones, one at least 10 yrs old, usually relegated to emergency use only.
Yep, of course it was the Zero-G's that were putting out "chunks". Bummer. Long flushing, etc. just made it worse.

Bought what was available locally since we leave very soon - cheap white ones, with the bad fittings which are prone to leaking. If there is time will try to pick up new ends for them, and replace with better....

In any event - as part of the sanitizing routine, I'd advise just doing a bucket test as I ended up doing, before just trusting what your hose may be putting into your tank/plumbing. Now I wonder how long this has been happening....at least I use a filter just before it enters the trailer when on city water!

Hey Ted, I guess you just gave me another good reason to put the filter on the house side. Who woulda thunck the Zero G hoses would deteriorate that fast. I'll check mine. Thanks for the post.

[AZCamper]

Getting ready for a month long trip, and just got the trailer out of storage. Proceeded to start the sanitizing process. I bought a cheap 2 gal. watering pitcher that I use to premix the bleach in - the spout makes it easier to pour into the gravity fill port on my trailer.
Surprised to see bits of "stuff" floating around in the pitcher. Ick! Dumped that batch, and made new. Even more stuff! Blamed it on the pine trees I was standing under. Moved away, and this time even more stuff!
I need almost 100 ft of hose to get from my house spigot to the trailer, so 4 lengths of hose. Finally started testing each length. 2 were my pricey fabric collapsible "Zero-G" hoses that I really like. About 4 seasons of use. The other two were old Camco white ones, one at least 10 yrs old, usually relegated to emergency use only.
Yep, of course it was the Zero-G's that were putting out "chunks". Bummer. Long flushing, etc. just made it worse.

Bought what was available locally since we leave very soon - cheap white ones, with the bad fittings which are prone to leaking. If there is time will try to pick up new ends for them, and replace with better....

In any event - as part of the sanitizing routine, I'd advise just doing a bucket test as I ended up doing, before just trusting what your hose may be putting into your tank/plumbing. Now I wonder how long this has been happening....at least I use a filter just before it enters the trailer when on city water!

After watching this and your post I am wondering if I should ditch my Zero G and replace it with a Flexzilla.

https://youtu.be/WalzXF48iac


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[sande005]

Interesting - the newer Camco "TastePure" hose is NSF listed. That might be my new one to try....

[OurNewEra]

After watching this and your post I am wondering if I should ditch my Zero G and replace it with a Flexzilla.

https://youtu.be/WalzXF48iac


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Thanks to @sande005 for starting this thread and to @AZCamper for the YT link. I was getting ready to ditch my conventional hoses for the Zero G. I'm tired of fighting the hoses to roll them up. Now I may rethink the Zero-G upgrade. The Flexzilla looks interesting. The price point is also much better than Zero-G. One more thing to think about?!

Does anyone have suggestions on how to EASILY roll-up conventional hoses?

[NB Canada]

Thanks to @sande005 for starting this thread and to @AZCamper for the YT link. I was getting ready to ditch my conventional hoses for the Zero G. I'm tired of fighting the hoses to roll them up. Now I may rethink the Zero-G upgrade. The Flexzilla looks interesting. The price point is also much better than Zero-G. One more thing to think about?!

Does anyone have suggestions on how to EASILY roll-up conventional hoses?

I store mine in a 5 gallon pail. It coils around the inside of the pail easily
50 feet of white camco hose and store my filters,regulator and fittings in the middle


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[OurNewEra]

I store mine in a 5 gallon pail. It coils around the inside of the pail easily
50 feet of white camco hose and store my filters,regulator and fittings in the middle


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Thanks. I'll have to give that a try. Right now I have two hoses in a tub with the accessories - regulator, Y, filter. No reason I couldn't switch to a 5-gallon pail for all that and it would take up less space in the pass through.

[NB Canada]

Thanks. I'll have to give that a try. Right now I have two hoses in a tub with the accessories - regulator, Y, filter. No reason I couldn't switch to a 5-gallon pail for all that and it would take up less space in the pass through.

One has 50 feet of garden hose and a 25 foot camco hose ,2 blue coil hoses and nozzles
Other has 50 feet drinking hose (room for more) and all of my fittings and regulator


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[rmaly76]

Just checked their website. They have a 5 year warranty. Not sure if this would be covered but would be interesting to bring it to them as a possibility. Scanned through a bunch of amazon reviews with average of 4.7/5. By far the most negative reviews were those about physical failures, leaks. About 1/2 of the failures occured right out of the box, the other after couple months of use. Even fewer negative reviews mentioned bad taste/smell, wondering if there is coorelation there with what you saw. I like the packability too much to give it up and not sure I'm terribly concerned simply because I use my filter on the camper side of the hose but I'll definitely be keeping a look out. Thanks for the heads up.

[NB Canada]

Just checked their website. They have a 5 year warranty. Not sure if this would be covered but would be interesting to bring it to them as a possibility. Scanned through a bunch of amazon reviews with average of 4.7/5. By far the most negative reviews were those about physical failures, leaks. About 1/2 of the failures occured right out of the box, the other after couple months of use. Even fewer negative reviews mentioned bad taste/smell, wondering if there is coorelation there with what you saw. I like the packability too much to give it up and not sure I'm terribly concerned simply because I use my filter on the camper side of the hose but I'll definitely be keeping a look out. Thanks for the heads up.

I would be quite positive they just don’t see it and know


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