By Cheri Sicard
They are every RVers’ most dreaded chores: emptying the RV’s black water tank and cleaning the black water tank. In other words, properly maintaining your RV’s sewage system.
These necessities of RV life may seem distasteful on the surface but, in reality, emptying your RV’s black water tank need not cause stress or dread. It’s actually pretty simple.
RV newbies especially get weirded out when it comes to the topic of their RV’s sewage system.
I have known people to put off this chore for so long that the toilet is about to start overflowing. Others avoid using their RV toilet altogether. (What’s the point of having one?)
Stop procrastinating and let the comprehensive video below take away all the mystery. Before you know it, you will be dumping like an RV pro!
Despite dealing with your RV’s toilet waste, this chore is pretty neat and sanitary—especially if you follow the video below. It provides everything you could possibly need to know about emptying your tanks and keeping your tank’s monitors clean and functioning.
Highlights include:
- Avoiding the dreaded “poop pyramid”
- The best ways to get water into your black water tank
- The best treatments, deodorants, and products for RV black water tanks
- Do you really need special RV toilet paper?
- When to dump your black water tank
- Accessories to make RV black water tank dumping neat and easy
- Best practices for black water tank dumping
- Best practices for black water tank cleaning procedures
- Black water tank and sewage odor control
- Dealing with black water tank clogs
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more user-friendly and comprehensive RV black water tank guide than this video.
After watching this video, you can flush away your RV dump station fears and stop putting off draining the tanks. That smells wonderful!
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I never could understand the fear of emptying the black tank. I don’t touch anything any differently than when emptying the grey tank or emptying a clean water tank.
Thank you, Cheri! 🙂 What Donny said. 🙂 I know a person who rented an RV, but was so grossed out by the thought and activity of dumping the black tank that that person never rented an RV again, let alone contemplated buying one. As is often (?) said, the gray tank contents actually smell worse when dumped than do the black tank contents. Although our system is a bit different, this video had several helpful hints! 🙂 Thanks again and safe travels, Cheri! 🙂
I switched the “sewer solution” and it comes with a way to spray into your tanks without some extra fittings, just uses water pressure to move the waste and to clean your tank, you should do an article on this type of way to do it so much easier and cleaner and faster over all. You don’t need a something to hold your hose up or anything and it will even push the waste up a small incline.