Water tanks

We did all of the above plus used a little bi carb soda,let the water in the tank (full), sit for 3 days and then flushed and filled again. You MUST however let the tap you fill from run for a couple of moments to get all the stale water out! Not a worry now water tastes great!!

It's a funny thing........ I have 20 litre and a 10 litre clear plastic gerry cans in the back of my Patrol. They are always filled with rain water using our garden hose. The 10 litre unit sits on the side, under the cargo side window and has a length of food-grade hose with a simple black garden irrigation tap near the end (with another 6" or so of the food hose from the tap to a snap-on male fitting).

The water sits there in the sun etc and we never have any bad taste. I guess it's because I'm forever refilling it every other weekend.

The 20 litre container is mounted permanently behind the Engel, up against the back of the passengers' seat. It has green garden hose plumbed out of it's outlet, also to the back of the cargo area with a similar tap and extra bit of hose etc. No taste from that water either.....and that water tends to sit there for several months at a time without being used. It does not get the same amount of direct sunlight as the 10 litre gerry can.

So, I'm not sure about all these claims of algae etc......not saying it doesn't happen; it's just never happened to me (yet)..... The again, being from SA, maybe even algae-contaminated water tastes okay when you you're used to the chit that comes out of our taps here!!! hahahaha

Cheers

Roachie

I can here what you're saying, when I was using a plastic water bottle instead of the tank I never had any algea problems wither, but I know it deffinatally grows as it was all thorugh my hoses!! I taped them all up with black electrical tape and flushed with bleach and it's been good ever since...

I always fill up with the garden hose lol....no complaints yet.

Yeah, brew kit steriliser's the same thing too, they are all kinda like bleach.

Depending on you're setup, it might even be easier to use the powerdered brew kit steriliser and just put a couple of teaspoons in.