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Sterilizing the Van Water System
If you have a water tank on your vehicle, it is important to regularly to sterilise the complete water system.
These instructions are derived from those originally published in an an American RV magazine. For this recipe, you only need ordinary household bleach and some bicarb soda (baking soda).
- With all your water tanks full, funnel in about 75 ml bleach for every 50 litres water (do this for each tank if you have more than one).
- Mix it all up by taking the vehicle for a short drive, and then open all taps so you get the mixture through all the water lines.
- If your hot water service is for instance 30 litres, make sure you run more than that through the hot taps.
- Leave it at least overnight (up to 24 hours), then drain out the water tanks (though not the hot water yet).
- Refill the tank(s) with fresh water. THEN open the hot taps to empty the HWS and refill it with fresh water.
- Drain and empty a couple of times and you'll have clean tanks again.
- Some people dissolve 1/2 cup of baking soda into a bucket, then put this into the tank to get rid of the chlorine smell (on first rinse, then rinse with fresh water a second time). Otherwise you would probably be happy with just rinsing a few times.
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