Thursday, 26 July 2012

Back home

Back home now with a list of jobs that need doing, we got home late morning, after a cup of tea and a sandwich, I decided to get started.
First job was to flush out the water tank and make sure we have sweet water through the taps, before we left I read up different forums I belong to about flushing out water tanks, I ended up confused, some said use chlorine some said Milton others said just wash out the sour water and and flush water twice it should be ok.
I filled up the water tank turned house battery on, and pumped air out of cold tap, the smell we had the first day had gone, I turned on the hot taps in bathroom and kitchen they smelt terrible at first but gradually cleared then water started pumping through pure cold fresh water, hot and cold taps were running fresh, I turned the taps off. The sinks were full of water not going anywhere, I forgot the grey tank must be full, ok thats fine, I thought, I wanted to test the grey water tap to make sure it was alright. I was going to empty the grey water tank at the site but there were a couple of motorhomes waiting to go on the service area. so I decided to go home and empty the tank into a container I had.
I laid out on the ground to have a look, found the tap and turned the tap, nothing then a drip then another drip. I decided to unscrew the tap and remove it completely to see if it were blocked,  as I reached the end of the thread I thought any moment I am going to get soaked, the tap came off, full of muck and gungy black goo. I poked a piece of stick up the pipe still blocked with gunge.
I got some very stiff wire and poked and pushed my way up into the tank then suddenly water shot out like a mini Niagara at first it was sewerage then rust then clear water, after the deluge had stopped, I took the tap cleaned it up and screwed it back on, turned it off, went into motorhome and started pumping water into the sinks again. I pulled the plugs and watched the water gurgle down the hole to the grey water tank.
I went down to the grey water tank and undone the tap, water gushed out clear water.
I felt good two jobs completed, a few more to do.

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