Do’s & don’t’s of RV toilet use, RV waste tank sensor health & alternative systems, dump valve maintenance, proper waste tank dumping & cleaning & hose storage solutions. Today’s video is going to be your complete guide for RV waste tank sensors, dumping your waste tanks, maintenance of your dump valves and outside sewer hose storage solutions.

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This is not a pretty subject to talk about, so I’ve injected some humor in this video to learn how to deal with all the aspects of handling RV waste.

Many people find taking care of and dumping their waste tanks a hassle and nasty. But if you set up your system correctly and do some simple steps, taking care of and dumping your waste tanks is really not a big deal and doesn’t have to be nasty.

It all starts in the RV at the toilet. There are many things you should never put into your RV toilet and I cover them here. Using an effective waste tank treatment after every time after you dump your black tanks—like Happy Campers—is a real good thing to do. Many other products are nothing but deodorizers that mask the smell and come in packets. These packets can sometimes lodge in your sewer plumbing and cause problems. Cleaning the rubber gasket at the bottom of the toilet is important to do often. Now most all RV’s have waste tank sensors. Most of them don’t work correctly. Cleaning out the waste tank often will help these sensors work right….for awhile. But there are other sensor alternative systems and the best one out there is the “SeeLevel RV Tank Monitoring System”. I’ll be briefly be covering that.

Then there’s RV sewer hoses. YUK! When Storing these in a tub or a bag—which I have never done—is just nasty, hard to deal with and takes up valuable space. We’ve installed outside storage tubes and I highly recommend that you do the same. They don’t take up precious storage space in the RV or in the bed of your truck if you pull a trailer and they’re super easy to slide out and hook up to the sewer connections. By keeping them outside they won’t stink up anything either. It’s a great way to store these clumsy, large stinky hoses.

I cover how to clean your black tanks when you don’t have a back flush valve like us.
We don’t have a back flush valve on our RV. So the way I clean our black tanks is power wash them with a RV waste tank cleaning wand connected to a dedicated water hose.

Every RV’er should always carry with them at least 25’ of sewer hose and multiple kinds of adapters to attach the hose to main sewer. When your traveling, you never know what kind of main sewer adapter or hole your going to run into and have to attach to.

I'm also not a fan of storing sewer hoses in a tub or a bag. I personally think that's just nasty and it takes up valuable storage space in the RV. Even if I had a trailer type RV where you have a truck to pull it, I wouldn't store my sewer hoses in the bed of the truck in a tub or a bag. I think storing them in tubes like I do, or in a similar way where they are OUTSIDE not only is easier & saves storage space, but it allows them to air out. Even if I have a trailer of some sort where you can usually store one sewer hose in the rear bumper, your still going to need another extension hose for those longer to reach areas. I would be storing that hose under the RV in a similar way I showed in the video.

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We are in no way experts or professional mechanics. But being a journeyman millwright for years & being EX Military, has proven to be very helpful in my lifetime learning how to care for & maintain all sorts of machinery & equipment like: helicopters, airplanes, tanks, motorcycles & many types of other vehicles. That, along with 18 months preparing & upgrading our RV before we went full time, & now traveling for several years has gained us a lot of knowledge. Regardless of what we recommend, consult a professional if you're unsure about working on your RV. Work you perform or products you purchase based on any information we provide is at your own risk.