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 The water pump in our Camplet Concorde leaves a distinctive taste to the water. We have tried flushing through with things like Milton and replacing the plastic hose, all to no avail.

Has anyone else had this problem and have they overcome it?

We had that problem, don't know if it's with the water lying in the pipe overnight,  so I just fill the kettle from the tap if there is one close enough or use bottled water for our coffee.

We don't use the water pump - don't see the point in pumping cold water.

I use a 2ltr squash bottle,easier to lift/pour,  the kids fill a 5 ltr water bottle ex Asda/Tesco every day. That way I know its fresh water.

Suppose it depends on how much water you use a day.

Personally I've never fancied drinking pumped water - how can you be sure its clean and safe?  I agree that there's not much point in having a tap for cold water. We have a small container for fetching our drinking water in, and do all our washing up etc in the campsite kitchen areas.

Oh and i was going to fit a tap with hand pump into my camplet, and use a aqua roll as we find it easyer to use that than carry water.

I've always used the water from the aquarollfor drinking!

I generally run a full carrier of diluted Milton through followed by a full one of fresh water at the start of the season and that usually cures any taste problem.

I'm sure the modern coloured water pipes give off more taste than the old clear ones!

Glen

My 2 gallon water carrier gives a very distinctive taste to the water, I tried milton, bleach, bicarb - nothing helped, so now I only use that water for washing/washing up and get a 4l bottle of drinking water from Sainsbury on the way and keep refilling that.

Wendy