Question How Often To Sanitize?

[RKins]

@TJ&LadyDi - looks like that kit is for about 100 gals. We have a 105 gal FW tank so it should be fine. Do you have to use 2 kits?

 

[TJ&LadyDi]

@TJ&LadyDi - looks like that kit is for about 100 gals. We have a 105 gal FW tank so it should be fine. Do you have to use 2 kits?

We just use one kit for the 105-gallon FW tank. That has worked fine for us.

TJ

 

[DKRITTER]

We don't let water sit in the tank, it's drained every time we get home.

We sanitize usually once a year. RV Geeks has a very good You Tube video on it.

 

[Joe Dutchstar]

Well here is a video regarding sanitizing fresh water tank. Typically we do this, as others have stated, at least once a quarter or if the tank has been unused "for a while". Also we do not drink the fresh water from the fresh water tank but do cook with it.

 

[Buly]

We sanitize in the spring, before leaving Florida for our annual trip.

 

[RTRanger]

Anybody ever test their water? I see the TDS meters are cheap and there’s kits to test more specifically which includes bacteria, which I guess is the main thing you would want to know about.

I recently bought a used unit and even though I disinfected the system I’m thinking about doing some testing. (Everything seemed very clean on this unit - even the black and gray tanks.)

 

[Dona40]

City water does have a small amounts of chlorine. I frankly don't worry about it very much.
Here's some Food for thought,
One should sanitize to remove harmful germs and pathogens, but over-sanitizing can cause one's immune system to react negatively to a germ-induced environment. This can also draw allergic responses from the body when it is exposed to an environment less clean than the one in which it lives.