Plastic taste of water

I use Bi Card Soda in mine.

Fill the tank about haf full. Mix up about 500 grams Bicard in a bucket of water and add that to the tank. Then fill it chockers.

Leave it soak overnight then drain and flush it a couple of times.

There are other suggestions on the site here somewhere. Others have used Chlorine Bleach etc.

GHThommo
Food Grade hose is not the correct hose it does not stop the chlorine burning the plastic it has to be potable water hose Blue in colour
Terry

buy some Tankkleena from a camping or Caravan store and follow instructions.
Works in mine after being empty for 8 months

we had the same issue with the camper when the tanks were new. we used tankclean in them 3 times and then had to leave it in longer than overnight .. then kept the tanks full for 1 week periods and did that 3 times.... finally all the plastic taste is gone.....

regards
Bryan

Gday Thommo
All I did with my tank was to put a few drops of lemon concentrate in the water. We have never had a plastic taste
Murray

One thing I would check is the plastic pipes used from the water tank to taps as they are sometimes el cheapo's. I had a van once that I couldn't get rid of the tast of plastic until I changed those pipes...no probs after that

a cheap way is to mix vinagar with water (Fill the mixture to the top of the tanks) leave overnight drain. Repeat if Req. A friend told me thats what the army does.

I had this problem with a brand-new tank and appropriate blue hoses.

It nearly drove me nuts until after a process of elimination and wasting quite a bit of water, the culprit was a cheap Bunnings click-on connector joining the supply tap to the fill hose.

Yep, one small component managed to taint all 57L of water in the tank as it was being filled - not once, but several times.

The remedy: a connector costing about $2 more than the cheapie.

Thank you for all your input.

I'll start by checking the connections and if necessary look at your suggestions for adding things to water.

I'll let you know how we get on.

Thommo

I don't know about others but I find all this buggering about with bi-carb/bleach/tankclean and rinsing out 3 times too much, well, buggering about. In recent times I've taken one or two 15L flagons of water from the supermarket for drinking/cooking, depending on how long away from "civilization" and we use all the van tankwater for washing up and showering. Bloke down the road has a Motorhome and does the same.




(Oh alright- it was his idea).

Hi Tommo,

We've never had to take a lot of drinking water as a long term thing cos we're still working and don't have a long term thing. But we've taken at most, 2 x 15L flagons @ $7.50 which last us (2adults+2 kids) either the duration or until we get to another supermarket

Going to the high country for the first time after Easter and hoping we can get by on fresh water from the river/creek, but we'll take some just in case.

I suppose when you're running a business and running around after kids, time is at a bit of a premium. If I had the time, I'd clean the tank. I suppose it comes down to what suits.