New hose foul water

You need drinking water hose to fill the tank - garden hose will make it taste like plastic. So go to Bunnings and get the light blue, braided hose made by Nylex or Neta.

If you still have a problem, the second likely cause is the hose they used on your van. Third likely cause is the tank.

New tanks can give the water a taste for while as well, mine is still giving the water a slight taste after about 5 months. I just leave it full when not in use then drain and refill before a trip.

Gday
Squeeze half a lemon into the tank.

I 'cured' a tank with a bad taste by putting in some Milton, that is usually used to sterilise babys' bottles and it cleaned it up on one application.

Jack

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chek,

My guess is the hose as well.
This is the only thing you have changed.

I bought "food quality" dringing water hose from Clark Rubber.
It is a white reinforced hose with a blue stipe.

Bought food/drinking water hose from Clark Rubber (light blue with white reinforcing/mesh) and use brass fittings both sides of tap end. No problems after initially flushing c/t tank with bicarb.

Make sure you run water through hose before each use though.

Regards

go the vodka ................ it will help eh

The normal garden hose is OK after it's been used ...in the garden for a few months, I use one without any problems.
The blue hose as mentioned above allows light into the hose and when your parked permanent after a while the green slimy Algea starts to grow inside the hose...YUK.
And for campers in cold country the blue hose is a mongrel to roll up, it's like a spring coil.

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Chek,
you ought to be able to return that hose as being unfit for the purpose. Calling it a Drinking water hose is hardly truthful, although it may not leach poisonous stuff, if it affect the taste, it does not qualify as "Drinking water".

Ken

Probably one of the best places to buy drinking water hose is from the marine shops............they don't seem to be overpriced like the caravan retailers, and if the yachties get lumbered with tainted water they whine good and loud to all their mates and that shop wont sell much hose after that.

Eiter that or go to a specialist hose supplier...I'd never buy anything critical from bunnings or the like.

Bad water is a more serious problem for yachties......they tend to carry a lot of water, and cant just drain & refill if they get some crook stuff.

There are also water & tank treatment products in these shops too.

cheers

I had a bad tasting tank in my old Jayco Eagle. Treated it with a bottle of home brew bottle wash powder. Mixed it up into a solution and tipped the lot in through a funnel. Filled tank and let sit for a few hours. Drained, refilled, no bad taste.
The stuff is made to wash the new coopers plastic home brew bottles and seems to work well.Get it from BigW

Fresh drinking water hose should be branded with the appropriate AS/NZ standard.
Must conforn to the following standards:
AS/NZS 2554:1998 Class B
or AS/NZS 2070:1999.
Most of the quality ones will conform to both standards.
Ozjohn.

Thanks people for your help. New hose so see how we go:-)