Welcome back! So here is part two of the essentials to RV living. All of these items are important so you can maintain your entire RV. Also I have more to come, I have some hacks and DIY things that you can do to save money as well, but will save that for another post. So stay tuned. If you missed part 1 check it out!
So let’s continue with some more important items.
Black Water Hose Having this water hose will help distinguish between your drinking water hose and your water hose for the black tank flush or other variest things you need a regular water hose for. ie. watering plants, yard or just some water fun.
Then we have your Water Hose For Drinking Water this is the hose that has be safe for drinking, which are mostly white or blue in color. As before it is important to get a little more than you need in length because all sites are different, one place you maybe need a 25 ft hose and others you may need 50 ft, so I would recommend that you get the longest just so you don’t have to purchase another one down the road.
It is also important to filter our water, but this is where things get tricky, because in this aspect of RV’s the water filtration varies, but can be the same in some. So with ours we were able to find our RV Water Filter in a 4 pack instead of buying individually at Camping World or Walmart. Money saver there. It also advised to change those water filters every 3 months or so. Especially if you live in a place that has crazy weather like Texas. It’s important to keep your drinking water safe for drinking.
So I am going to go more in depth with the tanks on board the RV. There is a black tank and a gray tank. The gray tank is where typically your shower and sink water go to and your black tank is, well black and stinky. If you catch my drift. If you didn’t then its where the deposits made in the toilet go. Some RV’s have outside kitchens and they have separate valves to pull on to release to dump. With the black tank, it is recommended that you do a black tank flush regularly, to dump anything that is sticking to the walls of the tank. When performing a black tank flush is also advised to add a RV Toilet Treatment to the tank to help break up toilet paper and any other things that need to broken down to dump. We use multiple of things to help, but the main one is the black tank pods.
RV toilet paper, is the last thing that is an obvious essential. We ourselves use Charmin but it is recommended to use RV toilet paper which entails 1-2 ply. Not a fan so, I will leave that to your discretion. Just keep in mind, you black tank flushes pretty regularly with the drop in treatments. We haven’t had any issues, yet. If we do I’m sure I’ll be writing about it to y’all. But I hope not, because that would be a really expensive fix.
I believe I have covered all the essentials to get you ready to go full time in your RV, I hope this information has been helpful. Thank you so much for reading.
One Texas Sweetheart 