December 4, 2023 • 16 mins
We just thought this was going to be easy! In this episode we walk through a step by step guide to sanitize your RV tanks, but things don’t go according to plan and we end up mockdocking a little longer than expected.
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Sanitization Recipe:
2 cups bleach
5 gallons water
Mix the bleach and water together in a bucket. Set RV water pump to draw from outside into the fresh tank (sanitization mode). Add mixture to the RV fresh tank. Then turn RV to fill the fresh tank mode. Then fill the fresh tank with water until full. Turn RV to dry camp mode but bypass the water heater. Turn on all sinks, shower, and washer (as applicable) until you smell bleach. Then turn all water sources off and leave the mixture to set for at least 8 hours. Empty fresh tank by turning on all sinks and shower again. Then flush fresh tank until no bleach smell remains. Empty grey tank as needed and repeat the flush until the fresh tank is fully clear of bleach.
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Check out all the shenanigans!
Sanitization Recipe:
2 cups bleach
5 gallons water
Mix the bleach and water together in a bucket. Set RV water pump to draw from outside into the fresh tank (sanitization mode). Add mixture to the RV fresh tank. Then turn RV to fill the fresh tank mode. Then fill the fresh tank with water until full. Turn RV to dry camp mode but bypass the water heater. Turn on all sinks, shower, and washer (as applicable) until you smell bleach. Then turn all water sources off and leave the mixture to set for at least 8 hours. Empty fresh tank by turning on all sinks and shower again. Then flush fresh tank until no bleach smell remains. Empty grey tank as needed and repeat the flush until the fresh tank is fully clear of bleach.
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(00:00):
I don't like the cold. Thissnowbird does not like the cold. Stupid
Texas, Stupid Texas. Ooh,but the holidays are over. We had
a light trouble. Day was reallyreally great and now we're back for the
holidays to see family. And youwill never guess where we parked at.
(00:21):
You think the hoa reiligned. Nah, So today's sanitization day, So we
gotta sanitize the RV. We tryto do it once a year. Well,
sanitizing the tanks yees well, andthe lines, all the lines,
yeah, all the indoor plumbing.That's what we're sanitizing. You know.
(00:43):
It's part of the like normal armymaintenance stuff. And it's a lot easier
to do it when you're mooch stockinglike we are. And we're actually gonna
spend the night in the house tonightand leave it over what twelve to eighteen
hours? I think some people saylike eight hours is enough, but we're
gonna leave it for like twelve plus, so like me, it'll be fine.
We're gonna get all the bacteria outof the tanks. We're bleaching it
(01:04):
all out, all right, yougrab the bucket. I'm gonna grab the
bleach. Here we go. It'sactually really cold here. We're walking around
without a jacket because it's for thevlog. It's for the vlog. People
were making that sacrifice just for you, so you don't see us in this
crazy bundled up coat that we don'tneed to be wearing. Well, we're
saying hi to you. But nowI've gotta figure out where are the bleach
(01:26):
is in this place. I thinkit's near the laundry, so let's go
in here. Yes, here itis bleach. We're actually plugged into the
thirty amp connection, so we haveelectricity. We don't have anything else going
right now, but we do haveelectricity, which is great. I said
great, really weird, but thethirty amp is really nice overnight because then
our fridge can run all night long. Some of you know, we have
(01:47):
a one twenty volt fridge and sowe can't boon, dock or dry camp
at all, so we have tobe plugged into something. But thankfully the
family has a thirty amp connection.So even though we're not gonna stay in
the camper tonight because we're gonna besanitizing the lines, which means no access
to water, we are plugged inso everything will continue to work, which
is really great. Will you stoptalking to them so we can get some
(02:10):
work done. We gotta get somework done. We had to actually get
the lines sanitized. All right,let's go. Let's go. So the
ratio we're using is two cups ofbleach to five gallons of water. We're
gonna pour that into the tanks firstand then run it through the lines and
flush it the rest of the way. Here you go, sir, Here
is your bleach. This has fortythree ounces. Was forty three ounces.
(02:32):
It's only like a third of theway full. You could tell we're really
precise about our management, and itmight be half full. Two cups is
thirty You should have done this mathbefore we came out here without our coats
on, sucker. Two cups isthirty two ounces. Um, we're just
gonna use the whole thing all right. Down at this bucket has seen some
better days. This is an oldbucket. Clearly it's still okay, though.
(02:58):
Go over there and I will hollerfor you to turn the water on
and off. Okay, Now Igotta step in the garden to turn the
water on and off. Here wego, all right, turn it on,
turn it on. So sanitizing thetanks at least once a year,
if not more often than that,I would say probably at least every six
months is probably a better plan.Is a really good thing to do,
(03:20):
because bacteria can build up in yourlines, it can build up in your
tanks if you're using your fresh watertank to drink clean drinking water, or
use the shower or something like that. I think he told me to just
turn it off. Just now itcome back over? What come back over?
Okay, now I'm coming back over. Then all that gross bacteria is
gonna wind up in your drinking water, or it's gonna wind up in your
shower water, which is not great. So we sanitize the entire system.
(03:45):
The only thing that I would sayis you need to bypass the hot water
heater. You do not want toget this bleachy water in your hot water
system. But beyond that, youwant it to go all throughout all of
the piping, all of the sinks, all of the tanks, everything,
to really really sanitize the entire system. So on our manifold, turning off
the hot water heater is the whiteswitch on yours. Who knows what it's
(04:09):
going to look like, but wehave it set up to sanitize, and
basically, I've got a hose that'sbeen cut off that I'm just going to
dip into this bucket and she's goingto go turn the pump on till I
tell her not to. There wego, all right, off, I
go the pump, the water pump. That wind when it blows, it's
so coold, I'm ready go.Pump is on. See on our system,
(04:32):
we have a water pump button righthere. You should have one if
you have any kind of camper.It might be a switch, it might
be a button, but it willbe a water pump. You always want
to make sure that the setting isswitched to dry camping, so that way
you can switch that water pump onand not have any crazy issues. But
that's what we're doing right now,and we're moochtocking. So if you don't
know what moochtocking is, it's whereyou camp on somebody else's property or in
(04:54):
this case, we're parked in themiddle of the street. Thank goodness,
this neighborhood does not actually have anHOA, because I'm pretty sure if they
did, we'd violation of every requirementfor any HOA. Thankfully, our family
has some really amazing neighbors. We'reonly going to be here overnight. We
asked permission in advance, and we'rejust gonna sleep the night in the house
(05:14):
while everything works through. Maybe takethe opportunity to do a little laundry and
take up a little bit of extrahot water, you know, stuff like
that. I don't know if youcan hear the water pump going right now,
but we can. And that's alwaysa really good sign too that your
water pump is working, is ifyou can actually hear it. Turned on
our water pump the very first winterthat we had our camper. I want
(05:39):
to say, and Ryan will correctme if I'm wrong, but something broke,
something froze and then cracked, andthe water pump would just keep on
running and wouldn't turn off even thoughwe weren't getting any water. So we
had to have a mobile RV techcome out come take a look at it.
They ordered a part, fixed itthe next day. It was easy,
pasy, no big deal. Nowwe know what to listen for and
(06:00):
what to look forward to make surethat our water pump is working properly.
It's basically just sucking in that bleachwater into the whole system. Pump,
all right, he said, turnoff the pump. Turn off the pump.
I go, Okay, the bucketis empty. It has been sucked
into the fresh tank via the pump. Now we've got to fill the fresh
(06:26):
tank and then run all the lines. I think there we go. Uh
So do I need to go turnthe water back on here second? Yes?
Okay, So now I'm going toset it to power fill tank.
How's if I put the screw thingon the correct direction. Yeah, it
does power fill tank. That feelslike really impressive, like it's it's a
power fill tank powerful. I don'tknow, something along those lines. I'm
(06:51):
sure. Do you sound really smartwhen you say it? There you go.
But I'm gonna keep the hot waterbypast the entire time, so that
way, I mean, this isn'twouldn't go through the hot water anyways,
but I'm gonna keep it bypassed justso that way when the time comes to
send it, I don't you don'tforget. I don't forget. Yeah,
that's probably a good thing. Hencethe reason why we're mood stocking and actually
(07:14):
staying inside the house tonight, becausewe're not gonna have any water, much
less hot water, and it's reallychilly. So there we go. All
right, now do I need togo turn it on? Go turn the
water on. I'm gonna turn thewater on, fill that fresh tank up,
run it all through the lines,and then we are good to go.
See, it doesn't take very long. It's probably maybe a ten minute
process overall to get everything ready andfill the lines and everything like that,
(07:39):
but it does take a while forit to sit so that way you can
get rid of all of the bacteria. Now I'm frigid, there's a toilet
sitting on the lawn. When yougotta go, you gotta go. The
fresh tank actually does take a littlebit to fill up, so we might
just speed up this part and postso if any of you who've had to
fill your fresh tank, you knowthat this is the slowest part of the
process. Depends on your water pressure. I guess I'm pretty sure I just
(08:01):
said that. Well, now you'veheard it here twice, so you know
it's important. That's true that shehas to be ready to turn the water
off at a moment's notice. Whatis the next step turning the water off
and then coming back over here andare going inside and getting it on in
all the lines. Ah, itfeels like a like Kronk pull the lever
moment waiting to happen. Hey,turn off the water. All right,
(08:26):
I'm turning off the water because thefresh take is full. Does the water
off? Did it turn it off? I think I got it turned off?
Hopefully I didn't. Did I turnit the correct way? Yep?
Yeah, okay, I turned itoff. All right, water's off.
Water is off. So now I'mgoing to unhook the hose and I'm going
to set it to dry camping mode, which basically means from the fresh water
(08:48):
tank to the fixtures. But I'mstill going to keep the hot water bypassed
so that that way none of thisgets into the hot water heater fantabular.
So we have our bleach water mixtureand the rush tank full of just fresh
water at that point. So dojust keep that in mind that if you're
doing this process, if you followthe images, dry camping mode is not
(09:09):
enough. You have to know whichswitch is your hot water heater so you
can make sure that one is stillbypassed when you get to this point.
Here we go. Okay, let'shead into the RVO out of cold.
It wouldn't be quite so cold ifit wasn't quite so windy. But it's
pretty dang windy right now here wego, come in, come in,
come in, I'm coming okay,all right, So now we turn the
(09:31):
water pump on and we just getall the hoses going, or get all
the fixtures whatever, turn on allthe water sources. That's what we do.
Water pump is on, turning onall the water sources. So gally
tank turning it on just the coldjust the cold side, just the cold
side. There we go, justlike that. What why is it not?
(09:52):
That's the water heater, not thewater pump. Sucker. Oops,
there we go. All right,that one's going. Both of the sinks
are running and the shower is running. Look at us go. All the
fixtures are running to get this thingclean. Technically I should probably do the
washer also, Yeah, I'm notsure about that. I mean, I
would think that we would need tosanitize it. But at the same time,
(10:13):
I'm gonna do the washer. Justdo it on like a light load
maybe yeah, something like that aboutanything in it. You can hear it
going there we go cold water onlyquick wash? What is the shortest wash
I can do. Quick wash wouldbe a short wash? Yes, no,
maybe so I don't know. Coldwater only and go go. All
right, everything is on, Allof the water is on. Now what
(10:37):
do we do, sir? Wesniff for bleach. I don't know.
My nose is a little stuffed.Ye, sniff. You put your face
in the sink and yes, snifffor bleach. Sniff for bleach. Al
right, I'm gonna do it overhere in the gally. Oh yeah,
I smell the bleach gallley hag bleach. Can't really smell it on the shower
water. You can't smell it inthe shower water. But did you smell
it in the sinkswold? And Iwould imagine no, I can smell it.
(10:58):
Okay, Oh yeah, I smellit. Apparently I'm more congested than
you. Apparently. All right,so we turn it off now that we
can smell it. Yes, allright, here we go. Now that
we can smell the bleach running throughthe veins of the RV, we turn
everything off. I know, wejust leave it right. Well, I
gotta let the washer go a littlebit longer, just because I don't know
if it's actually pulled anything in yet. Oh gotcha? Okay, but then
(11:22):
we leave it. But then weleave it. Do we have everything out
of the living room and kitchen.I believe that we do. So I
think we can go ahead and closeup the slides now, because we're sitting
in the middle of the street andI don't really want a truck or car
to come by and hit our slides. So I think at this point we
can go ahead and close everything up. I think, so, all right,
let's do it. All right,slides are coming in. Oh wait,
(11:46):
let me make sure that the refrigeratoris locked, because we had that
happen one time and I forgot itis the Great Salsa incident. The Great
Salsa incident happened because I did notlock the fridge. But we can't access
anything when our slides come in.No, that's that's one downside to this
floor plan, or this model inparticular, is we can access the bathroom,
(12:09):
but we can't access the kitchen atall, which means we can't access
the fridge. During travel day,I see an acorn up on top of
one of those slides. Oh dear, yeah, we missed one. We
missed one. Well, no,we didn't miss one. They were coming
down pretty hard, so that's true. It was hard to I did get
up on the roof this morning andsweep off the slides to like try to
prevent any of that from coming in. But I think that one's good.
(12:31):
Nope, okay at all. Butthey were coming down pretty quick, so
sometimes that's hard to get them all. But the point of sweeping off the
slides. Some people use the leafflower and they'll blow it off, but
the point of doing that is toensure that the seal, the rubber seal
on your slides doesn't get impacted byyou know, twigs or branches or things
(12:52):
like that. You're gonna have toclose the bedroom door before. We can't
do the bedroom yet, gotcha?All right? I smell the bleach in
the washer. I think we're good. Awesome, that sounds great, all
right, so we'll call it here. All slides are going to be closed
up. We're waiting until he's donewith that to close up the bedroom slide,
and then we wait overnight and allthis bleach will hopefully kill all the
(13:13):
bacteria that has built up inside thetanks and the lines and everything else.
Again, yep, okay, retractingthat slide you can hear when the slide
clicks, cause it's gonna do thisdoop thing. There it goes, all
right, lights are off, waterpump is off. There we go.
You get the bucket or you wantme to get the Get the bucket.
Have the bucket. There's no holesin this bucket, there, Liza.
(13:37):
No holes in this bucket there,Liza, no holes. Now get warm
the warp up. The house feelsso good. It would not be that
cold except for the fact that it'swindy as I'll get out too. So
all right, all is well,well, we're not in the R and
B right now, but hey,look there's a Christmas tree. So we
(14:00):
didn't sleep in the RV last night. And then we took the RV to
have the bearings repack today, whichis also something you should definitely do for
ARV maintenance. But then we founda problem. Well it's the problem.
Our break assembly was damaged when wehad a blowout, and in April.
It's December. There's a Christmas treein the background. We've been traveling this
(14:22):
whole time on busted brakes, bustedtrailer brakes, and so therefore our pads
needed to be replaced. But becauseof that extra wear and tear from being
down a break or two. Ourdrums also needed to be replaced. Very
expensive, So how expensive used carexpensive? Everybody is getting key chains for
(14:45):
Christmas because we can't afford anymore.Dang. Sometimes this is RB life too.
At least the dog is enjoying herstay. I don't know wils to
say about that. This airbnb doesn'teven have a good ice maker. My
ice maker in the RV is better. Is doesn't have my bed. We
did grab our pillows though. Twonights of this. It's pure misery.
(15:07):
It's not pure misery. I meanit is family. We're hanging out with
family. It's free, which isgreat. Not the RV repairs. Those
are not free. Those are verycostly. But the study is free.
You know your parents are gonna seethis right, There're gonna be salt set
with you. I've your mom anddad. Well, since the beginning of
(15:31):
this video, two and a halfdays have passed. It is now Wednesday,
and little miss is back at work. She's been working real hard.
I have that was an ordeal,but at least we're back in our own
home on wheels. Now. Update, we have new brake pads. We
have new break drums. Although I'vebeen driving around for like nine months and
(15:54):
didn't notice anything, so don't trustme on any of this. But now
I feel safer and have more piecesof mind, although that was a very
expensive piece of mind to have now. Hey, friends, thanks for camping
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(16:17):
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I don't like the cold. Thissnowbird does not like the cold. Stupid
Texas, Stupid Texas. Ooh,but the holidays are over. We had
a light trouble. Day was reallyreally great and now we're back for the
holidays to see family. And youwill never guess where we parked at.
(00:21):
You think the hoa reiligned. Nah, So today's sanitization day, So we
gotta sanitize the RV. We tryto do it once a year. Well,
sanitizing the tanks yees well, andthe lines, all the lines,
yeah, all the indoor plumbing.That's what we're sanitizing. You know.
(00:43):
It's part of the like normal armymaintenance stuff. And it's a lot easier
to do it when you're mooch stockinglike we are. And we're actually gonna
spend the night in the house tonightand leave it over what twelve to eighteen
hours? I think some people saylike eight hours is enough, but we're
gonna leave it for like twelve plus, so like me, it'll be fine.
We're gonna get all the bacteria outof the tanks. We're bleaching it
(01:04):
all out, all right, yougrab the bucket. I'm gonna grab the
bleach. Here we go. It'sactually really cold here. We're walking around
without a jacket because it's for thevlog. It's for the vlog. People
were making that sacrifice just for you, so you don't see us in this
crazy bundled up coat that we don'tneed to be wearing. Well, we're
saying hi to you. But nowI've gotta figure out where are the bleach
(01:26):
is in this place. I thinkit's near the laundry, so let's go
in here. Yes, here itis bleach. We're actually plugged into the
thirty amp connection, so we haveelectricity. We don't have anything else going
right now, but we do haveelectricity, which is great. I said
great, really weird, but thethirty amp is really nice overnight because then
our fridge can run all night long. Some of you know, we have
(01:47):
a one twenty volt fridge and sowe can't boon, dock or dry camp
at all, so we have tobe plugged into something. But thankfully the
family has a thirty amp connection.So even though we're not gonna stay in
the camper tonight because we're gonna besanitizing the lines, which means no access
to water, we are plugged inso everything will continue to work, which
is really great. Will you stoptalking to them so we can get some
(02:10):
work done. We gotta get somework done. We had to actually get
the lines sanitized. All right,let's go. Let's go. So the
ratio we're using is two cups ofbleach to five gallons of water. We're
gonna pour that into the tanks firstand then run it through the lines and
flush it the rest of the way. Here you go, sir, Here
is your bleach. This has fortythree ounces. Was forty three ounces.
(02:32):
It's only like a third of theway full. You could tell we're really
precise about our management, and itmight be half full. Two cups is
thirty You should have done this mathbefore we came out here without our coats
on, sucker. Two cups isthirty two ounces. Um, we're just
gonna use the whole thing all right. Down at this bucket has seen some
better days. This is an oldbucket. Clearly it's still okay, though.
(02:58):
Go over there and I will hollerfor you to turn the water on
and off. Okay, Now Igotta step in the garden to turn the
water on and off. Here wego, all right, turn it on,
turn it on. So sanitizing thetanks at least once a year,
if not more often than that,I would say probably at least every six
months is probably a better plan.Is a really good thing to do,
(03:20):
because bacteria can build up in yourlines, it can build up in your
tanks if you're using your fresh watertank to drink clean drinking water, or
use the shower or something like that. I think he told me to just
turn it off. Just now itcome back over? What come back over?
Okay, now I'm coming back over. Then all that gross bacteria is
gonna wind up in your drinking water, or it's gonna wind up in your
shower water, which is not great. So we sanitize the entire system.
(03:45):
The only thing that I would sayis you need to bypass the hot water
heater. You do not want toget this bleachy water in your hot water
system. But beyond that, youwant it to go all throughout all of
the piping, all of the sinks, all of the tanks, everything,
to really really sanitize the entire system. So on our manifold, turning off
the hot water heater is the whiteswitch on yours. Who knows what it's
(04:09):
going to look like, but wehave it set up to sanitize, and
basically, I've got a hose that'sbeen cut off that I'm just going to
dip into this bucket and she's goingto go turn the pump on till I
tell her not to. There wego, all right, off, I
go the pump, the water pump. That wind when it blows, it's
so coold, I'm ready go.Pump is on. See on our system,
(04:32):
we have a water pump button righthere. You should have one if
you have any kind of camper.It might be a switch, it might
be a button, but it willbe a water pump. You always want
to make sure that the setting isswitched to dry camping, so that way
you can switch that water pump onand not have any crazy issues. But
that's what we're doing right now,and we're moochtocking. So if you don't
know what moochtocking is, it's whereyou camp on somebody else's property or in
(04:54):
this case, we're parked in themiddle of the street. Thank goodness,
this neighborhood does not actually have anHOA, because I'm pretty sure if they
did, we'd violation of every requirementfor any HOA. Thankfully, our family
has some really amazing neighbors. We'reonly going to be here overnight. We
asked permission in advance, and we'rejust gonna sleep the night in the house
(05:14):
while everything works through. Maybe takethe opportunity to do a little laundry and
take up a little bit of extrahot water, you know, stuff like
that. I don't know if youcan hear the water pump going right now,
but we can. And that's alwaysa really good sign too that your
water pump is working, is ifyou can actually hear it. Turned on
our water pump the very first winterthat we had our camper. I want
(05:39):
to say, and Ryan will correctme if I'm wrong, but something broke,
something froze and then cracked, andthe water pump would just keep on
running and wouldn't turn off even thoughwe weren't getting any water. So we
had to have a mobile RV techcome out come take a look at it.
They ordered a part, fixed itthe next day. It was easy,
pasy, no big deal. Nowwe know what to listen for and
(06:00):
what to look forward to make surethat our water pump is working properly.
It's basically just sucking in that bleachwater into the whole system. Pump,
all right, he said, turnoff the pump. Turn off the pump.
I go, Okay, the bucketis empty. It has been sucked
into the fresh tank via the pump. Now we've got to fill the fresh
(06:26):
tank and then run all the lines. I think there we go. Uh
So do I need to go turnthe water back on here second? Yes?
Okay, So now I'm going toset it to power fill tank.
How's if I put the screw thingon the correct direction. Yeah, it
does power fill tank. That feelslike really impressive, like it's it's a
power fill tank powerful. I don'tknow, something along those lines. I'm
(06:51):
sure. Do you sound really smartwhen you say it? There you go.
But I'm gonna keep the hot waterbypast the entire time, so that
way, I mean, this isn'twouldn't go through the hot water anyways,
but I'm gonna keep it bypassed justso that way when the time comes to
send it, I don't you don'tforget. I don't forget. Yeah,
that's probably a good thing. Hencethe reason why we're mood stocking and actually
(07:14):
staying inside the house tonight, becausewe're not gonna have any water, much
less hot water, and it's reallychilly. So there we go. All
right, now do I need togo turn it on? Go turn the
water on. I'm gonna turn thewater on, fill that fresh tank up,
run it all through the lines,and then we are good to go.
See, it doesn't take very long. It's probably maybe a ten minute
process overall to get everything ready andfill the lines and everything like that,
(07:39):
but it does take a while forit to sit so that way you can
get rid of all of the bacteria. Now I'm frigid, there's a toilet
sitting on the lawn. When yougotta go, you gotta go. The
fresh tank actually does take a littlebit to fill up, so we might
just speed up this part and postso if any of you who've had to
fill your fresh tank, you knowthat this is the slowest part of the
process. Depends on your water pressure. I guess I'm pretty sure I just
(08:01):
said that. Well, now you'veheard it here twice, so you know
it's important. That's true that shehas to be ready to turn the water
off at a moment's notice. Whatis the next step turning the water off
and then coming back over here andare going inside and getting it on in
all the lines. Ah, itfeels like a like Kronk pull the lever
moment waiting to happen. Hey,turn off the water. All right,
(08:26):
I'm turning off the water because thefresh take is full. Does the water
off? Did it turn it off? I think I got it turned off?
Hopefully I didn't. Did I turnit the correct way? Yep?
Yeah, okay, I turned itoff. All right, water's off.
Water is off. So now I'mgoing to unhook the hose and I'm going
to set it to dry camping mode, which basically means from the fresh water
(08:48):
tank to the fixtures. But I'mstill going to keep the hot water bypassed
so that that way none of thisgets into the hot water heater fantabular.
So we have our bleach water mixtureand the rush tank full of just fresh
water at that point. So dojust keep that in mind that if you're
doing this process, if you followthe images, dry camping mode is not
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enough. You have to know whichswitch is your hot water heater so you
can make sure that one is stillbypassed when you get to this point.
Here we go. Okay, let'shead into the RVO out of cold.
It wouldn't be quite so cold ifit wasn't quite so windy. But it's
pretty dang windy right now here wego, come in, come in,
come in, I'm coming okay,all right, So now we turn the
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water pump on and we just getall the hoses going, or get all
the fixtures whatever, turn on allthe water sources. That's what we do.
Water pump is on, turning onall the water sources. So gally
tank turning it on just the coldjust the cold side, just the cold
side. There we go, justlike that. What why is it not?
(09:52):
That's the water heater, not thewater pump. Sucker. Oops,
there we go. All right,that one's going. Both of the sinks
are running and the shower is running. Look at us go. All the
fixtures are running to get this thingclean. Technically I should probably do the
washer also, Yeah, I'm notsure about that. I mean, I
would think that we would need tosanitize it. But at the same time,
(10:13):
I'm gonna do the washer. Justdo it on like a light load
maybe yeah, something like that aboutanything in it. You can hear it
going there we go cold water onlyquick wash? What is the shortest wash
I can do. Quick wash wouldbe a short wash? Yes, no,
maybe so I don't know. Coldwater only and go go. All
right, everything is on, Allof the water is on. Now what
(10:37):
do we do, sir? Wesniff for bleach. I don't know.
My nose is a little stuffed.Ye, sniff. You put your face
in the sink and yes, snifffor bleach. Sniff for bleach. Al
right, I'm gonna do it overhere in the gally. Oh yeah,
I smell the bleach gallley hag bleach. Can't really smell it on the shower
water. You can't smell it inthe shower water. But did you smell
it in the sinkswold? And Iwould imagine no, I can smell it.
(10:58):
Okay, Oh yeah, I smellit. Apparently I'm more congested than
you. Apparently. All right,so we turn it off now that we
can smell it. Yes, allright, here we go. Now that
we can smell the bleach running throughthe veins of the RV, we turn
everything off. I know, wejust leave it right. Well, I
gotta let the washer go a littlebit longer, just because I don't know
if it's actually pulled anything in yet. Oh gotcha? Okay, but then
(11:22):
we leave it. But then weleave it. Do we have everything out
of the living room and kitchen.I believe that we do. So I
think we can go ahead and closeup the slides now, because we're sitting
in the middle of the street andI don't really want a truck or car
to come by and hit our slides. So I think at this point we
can go ahead and close everything up. I think, so, all right,
let's do it. All right,slides are coming in. Oh wait,
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let me make sure that the refrigeratoris locked, because we had that
happen one time and I forgot itis the Great Salsa incident. The Great
Salsa incident happened because I did notlock the fridge. But we can't access
anything when our slides come in.No, that's that's one downside to this
floor plan, or this model inparticular, is we can access the bathroom,
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but we can't access the kitchen atall, which means we can't access
the fridge. During travel day,I see an acorn up on top of
one of those slides. Oh dear, yeah, we missed one. We
missed one. Well, no,we didn't miss one. They were coming
down pretty hard, so that's true. It was hard to I did get
up on the roof this morning andsweep off the slides to like try to
prevent any of that from coming in. But I think that one's good.
(12:31):
Nope, okay at all. Butthey were coming down pretty quick, so
sometimes that's hard to get them all. But the point of sweeping off the
slides. Some people use the leafflower and they'll blow it off, but
the point of doing that is toensure that the seal, the rubber seal
on your slides doesn't get impacted byyou know, twigs or branches or things
(12:52):
like that. You're gonna have toclose the bedroom door before. We can't
do the bedroom yet, gotcha?All right? I smell the bleach in
the washer. I think we're good. Awesome, that sounds great, all
right, so we'll call it here. All slides are going to be closed
up. We're waiting until he's donewith that to close up the bedroom slide,
and then we wait overnight and allthis bleach will hopefully kill all the
(13:13):
bacteria that has built up inside thetanks and the lines and everything else.
Again, yep, okay, retractingthat slide you can hear when the slide
clicks, cause it's gonna do thisdoop thing. There it goes, all
right, lights are off, waterpump is off. There we go.
You get the bucket or you wantme to get the Get the bucket.
Have the bucket. There's no holesin this bucket, there, Liza.
(13:37):
No holes in this bucket there,Liza, no holes. Now get warm
the warp up. The house feelsso good. It would not be that
cold except for the fact that it'swindy as I'll get out too. So
all right, all is well,well, we're not in the R and
B right now, but hey,look there's a Christmas tree. So we
(14:00):
didn't sleep in the RV last night. And then we took the RV to
have the bearings repack today, whichis also something you should definitely do for
ARV maintenance. But then we founda problem. Well it's the problem.
Our break assembly was damaged when wehad a blowout, and in April.
It's December. There's a Christmas treein the background. We've been traveling this
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whole time on busted brakes, bustedtrailer brakes, and so therefore our pads
needed to be replaced. But becauseof that extra wear and tear from being
down a break or two. Ourdrums also needed to be replaced. Very
expensive, So how expensive used carexpensive? Everybody is getting key chains for
(14:45):
Christmas because we can't afford anymore.Dang. Sometimes this is RB life too.
At least the dog is enjoying herstay. I don't know wils to
say about that. This airbnb doesn'teven have a good ice maker. My
ice maker in the RV is better. Is doesn't have my bed. We
did grab our pillows though. Twonights of this. It's pure misery.
(15:07):
It's not pure misery. I meanit is family. We're hanging out with
family. It's free, which isgreat. Not the RV repairs. Those
are not free. Those are verycostly. But the study is free.
You know your parents are gonna seethis right, There're gonna be salt set
with you. I've your mom anddad. Well, since the beginning of
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this video, two and a halfdays have passed. It is now Wednesday,
and little miss is back at work. She's been working real hard.
I have that was an ordeal,but at least we're back in our own
home on wheels. Now. Update, we have new brake pads. We
have new break drums. Although I'vebeen driving around for like nine months and
(15:54):
didn't notice anything, so don't trustme on any of this. But now
I feel safer and have more piecesof mind, although that was a very
expensive piece of mind to have now. Hey, friends, thanks for camping
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