Scrib wrote: It's all good! When we started RV'ing with our previous TT, I (ahem) cleaned-out the black tank vent by leaving the Flush King on a little too long. We were referred to as "old faithful" in that campsite.
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The funny part is that there was never anything wrong with the hot water tank in the first place. Some kind of valve was turned when I had it winterized and it was not turned back. The repair guy replaced the thermostat and broke the gas valve, did not have the gas valve in stock so we continued on to our destination in Key West. I did not realize he only hand tightened the gas lines to the gas valve he broke. We were setting up, I turned the gas on and my wife later out of habit turned the hot water tank on. I was sitting in my wheelchair next to the hot water tank and it blew a huge ball of flame out of the vent hole into my upper body and face. All that ever needed to be done was to turn a valve. Price for learning, $400 for the repairs and weeks of burn treatments.
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Most of the things I've learned and remembered in life were from the "hard lessons"...they seem to stick better than the easy ones. Hopefully the rest of yours will be easy and happy lessons.
Glad you mentioned "old faithful" 'cause I've been thinking about getting one and I'll know to watch it so I don't get any handles that are a little embarassing - Thanks!
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2008 Jayco Flight G2 29RLS TT-"Serenity"
2004 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab.
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Scrib wrote: It's all good! When we started RV'ing with our previous TT, I (ahem) cleaned-out the black tank vent by leaving the Flush King on a little too long. We were referred to as "old faithful" in that campsite.
Well, I, uh, had a similar experience while filling my blue tote with black water to haul to the dump. When filling it, I hooked the hose to the tank relase valve, and into the top of the blue tote. There is a small screw off cap that looks like a hose pipe will screw over it. I was told to loosen it to allow air to escape while filling. So, I did, only I took it off and was watching to see if I could see when it was full so I could close the TT valve and go dump it. Well, uh, looking down as stuff coming in, and not realizing your dump tank is smaller than your holding tank.....let's just say I got "a face full" and leave it at that.....
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Maybe you should lower your standards.
Yikes, those are some scary lessons. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!
As mentioned above, there are checklists for winterizing. IMHO, the most popular checklist on this board is about 50% unnecessary. But the point is that especially when it comes to draining the water system and putting special RV antifreeze in the lines (bypassing the water heater), this is something that takes me about 10 minutes to do each season, there's no reason to pay somebody to do it.
joanne0012 wrote: Yikes, those are some scary lessons. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!
As mentioned above, there are checklists for winterizing. IMHO, the most popular checklist on this board is about 50% unnecessary. But the point is that especially when it comes to draining the water system and putting special RV antifreeze in the lines (bypassing the water heater), this is something that takes me about 10 minutes to do each season, there's no reason to pay somebody to do it.
I was in the hospital or I would have taken the time to learn how to correctly do it. I was charged $250 to winterize and another $250 to de-winterize, and they forgot about the valve.
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