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11/4/2007 at 6:00pm
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Hi all,

can i ask for fellow motorhomers for there opinion as to drink the water from the onboard tank or not, even if one has cleaned out the tank with Milton

thanks

mike and Liz



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I never drink water direct from the tank, even if I've just sterilized it with Milton. I always keep a bottle of water in the fridge for fresh drinking water. I do use the tank water for cooking, filling kettle, and cleaning my teeth.


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11/4/2007 at 6:56pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Biker Jeff on 11/4/2007


I never drink water direct from the tank, even if I've just sterilized it with Milton. I always keep a bottle of water in the fridge for fresh drinking water. I do use the tank water for cooking, filling kettle, and cleaning my teeth.


  We have stralized the tank a couple of times but we still do not drink the water. We do wash up with it though.


11/4/2007 at 6:59pm
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Quote: Originally posted by tourer32 on 11/4/2007

Quote: Originally posted by Biker Jeff on 11/4/2007


I never drink water direct from the tank, even if I've just sterilized it with Milton. I always keep a bottle of water in the fridge for fresh drinking water. I do use the tank water for cooking, filling kettle, and cleaning my teeth.


  We have stralized the tank a couple of times but we still do not drink the water or use it for tea and coffee. We do use it for washing if there's no facilities. though.


11/4/2007 at 6:59pm
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11/4/2007 at 7:03pm
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  sorry about all that above i didn't mean to post three times i'll try not to do that again


11/4/2007 at 8:01pm
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We use bottled water for drinking and the dog, other purposes we use the tank. Hot drinks are boiled anyway!

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I've never been ill from using the tank water for the kettle, or cooking, or cleaning my teeth. It must be ok because i've been using motorhomes for over 12 years, and even full timed for 2 years. But i like to know that drinking water is really fresh, and its much better chilled from the fridge.


11/4/2007 at 8:28pm
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We use a water filter, which is filled up from a water container, for drinking, filling the kettle and cooking.  Use the onboard tank for teeth, hand washing and washing up.

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11/4/2007 at 9:31pm
 Location: West Midlands
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We never drink the tank water, wash with  it cook with it, boil hot water for drinks, but use fresh drinking water from a seperate 5 litre container.    kiev    

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11/4/2007 at 10:24pm
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Same as above.

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12/4/2007 at 9:08am
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thanks to everbody who replied, you helped me to make up my mind to drink or not from tank water, now to find a suitable container for fresh water.

thanks again

mike&Liz



12/4/2007 at 11:38am
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Never had a problem drinking from MH Tanks. Empty them when you are not using the van, clean out once or twice a year.

Lets face it, how often do you clean out the inside of your water pipes at home, and how much water is standing in the length of pipe running from your home to where it has been cleaned?



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12/4/2007 at 11:46am
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Hi, I find it easier to get an 8 pack of 2 litre bottles of water from Lidl only about £2 and spread them around the van, saves having a big container to trip over. And the 2 litre bottles are easy to fill when needed.

Tony



12/4/2007 at 4:59pm
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We are new to MH-ing but we find that milton is the devil to get rid of for the taste but when we ran camps in france staying 5 months in one spot we used to find that green water was commonplace as the white water carrier let sunlight in but apart fron a pondy smell it never did us any harm but mostly it was boiled as I drink French water without ever having a problem.


12/4/2007 at 6:31pm
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We always drink from a plastic bottle that we fill when we arrive on site and it fits in the fridge and we just fill it up as needed and keep another in the van for cooking so it is not too cold. The kettle is always kept full and we manage fine. I would never drink the tank water but not because of any problem just don't like the thought of it.



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