Porta's are great for tents and van conversions with a potty room. The are heavy to lug when full to a toilet, You have to add flush water and deodorant. Should probably use plastic gloves when dumping. Dumping an RV isn't hard to do if you are organized and have a small collapsible stool to sit on while hooking up and unhooking the sewer hose and have sanitary gloves handy.
I don't see any advantage or avoidance in using a porta-potty instead of the class-C as designed.
As previously mentioned, if you are using any plumbing at all like the sinks and shower, you are still doing the same dumping procedure, and just as often. Dumping the gray tank but not the black tank isn't buying you anything in the way of inconvenience or cleanliness.
You could combine tanks by leaving both valves open, allowing gray water to flood into the black tank, but you'll still be needing to replenish your fresh water. When getting fresh water, you'll want to dump your gray water load to lighten the chassis and for general safety. As an experiment, fill all 3 tanks to capacity and see how the rear of your rig will sag.
With black and gray tanks to be dumped, you hook up the sewage dump hose once. You then open the black tank and let empty out, followed by dumping the gray tank. The gray tank soapy dirty dish and shower water will often back-flood into the black tank to help flush it out.
With that said, my wife and I are a little quirky in another way. We don't do #2 in the RV toilet, at least not as of yet. An emergency would surely over-rule that, but so far, no emergencies. We only do #1 to keep the black tank free of fecal matter left-behinds, in part because we keep our motor home in the garage under our master bedroom. This to avoid sewer gas getting upstairs in the house. I do follow a process to clean all tanks to avoid sewer gas, but fecal matter stuck inside could be an issue with otherwise clean tanks.
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ron.dittmer wrote: With that said, my wife and I are a little quirky in another way. We don't do #2 in the RV toilet, at least not as of yet. An emergency would surely over-rule that, but so far, no emergencies. We only do #1 to keep the black tank free of fecal matter left-behinds,
Yay, some people who are as quirky as I am. I just got my rig in early May and made a decision from the beginning that barring emergencies, there would be no #2 in my black water tank. I just feel that where I camp, there's always a restroom close by. I keep my RV in storage so I don't do this because of fear of escaping sewer gases. I've mentioned this to a few others and they look at me like I'm crazy. Maybe so, but it just seems easier to me, no trouble at all, and my black water tank is safe from possible buildup of yuk
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Why yes in fact you are "crazy" and some of you other guys are just plain weird.
You are going to carry 5 lbs or more of sloshing pee and poot out of that narrow little MH, into that narrow little CG bathroom 200 ft away and dump it the toilet? slosh slosh spill spill. Not good.
As for no #2 in the black tank to each his own, but just curious what do you guys think it is for. Making rum and cokes?
I have yet to be attacked in the middle of the night by any black tank poot.
Dumping is easy any quick,
Spending a little time on a dairy farm would cure this strange poot phobia, some of you have.
Now no one take offense, being funny here not critical, I could care less how anyone gets rid of their poot and pee
winnietrey wrote: As for no #2 in the black tank to each his own, but just curious what do you guys think it is for. Making rum and cokes?
Spending a little time on a dairy farm would cure this strange poot phobia, some of you have.
Yes, I know you're just having fun, but I grew up on a ranch and have done more than my share of mucking out stalls and corrals, cleaning chicken coops, etc. Maybe that's why I'm so sure I don't want any solids in my black water tank. I've seen how it builds up and how much work it is with animals. It's much worse in humans. So yes, to each his own. Happy cleaning
I am most impressed with the waterworks in motorhomes! The toilet technology is far ahead of household toilets. The flush volume is controllable - a cupful for #1, whatever you need for #2. No smell, minimal cleaning. The tank volume sounds small but with these amazing toilets DW and I are good for a week of boondocking on one tank. We rarely use campground toilets and often camp where there aren't any. Our weirdness is regarding the shower (which is actually the whole bathroom in our rig) - we choose to jump in a lake or swimming pool instead. So the greywater tank is good for a week, too. Once a week we take fifteen minutes to dump and refill the water tank, 30 gallons or so compared to 1000 gallons a week in our house. Amazing!
Well, heck, there is no limit to craziness and having an RV at all is kind of crazy, right?
You could spend about $2000 and get a composting toilet made for boats and RV's, that is if you have the room to install it. Then you could dump right on the ground or in a compost "hole" (not used for growing food plants). I've known folks with these in their homes and they limited the use to mostly #2 as too much liquid is difficult to deal with in these. RV Composting toilet
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