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Hi - I am new to this so please be gentle with me!!!

I have a second hand aquaroll and carver water pump, my question is.....can I just fill up the aquaroll with water, add some milton and then run it rught through the water system to sterilize it - I know this wont give it the desired 30 mins contact time but it will at least help - does anyone see a problem with doing this?

Any comments appreciated - thanks

I'd leave the Milton solution in the aquaroll for the requisite time first, then pump it through, yes. That's what we used to do at the start of every season, when we had a caravan.

You might want to then rinse out the aquaroll, we did as we could still taste it.

Quote: Originally posted by marpin on 24/6/2007

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We never use water from the aquaroll for drinking, we have a 4 ltr bottle, which you can refill from the tap on site if you want too..at least you know its fresh, i never trusted water from the aquaroll..it sometimes tasted funny.

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nor do we 

Aqua roll water is used for washing/washingup and veg prep

Cooking n tea n coffee made with water from a 2 litre container of fresh from tap water

Quote: Originally posted by katharita on 24/6/2007

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Quote: Originally posted by marpin on 24/6/2007

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We never use water from the aquaroll for drinking, we have a 4 ltr bottle, which you can refill from the tap on site if you want too..at least you know its fresh, i never trusted water from the aquaroll..it sometimes tasted funny.

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nor do we 

Aqua roll water is used for washing/washingup and veg prep

Cooking n tea n coffee made with water from a 2 litre container of fresh from tap water

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Thank goodness we're not the only ones who don't drink the 'fresh' water out of the Aquaroll

We use the Puriclem stuff too for doing it and the pipework but there's always that strange tang to the water afterwards. Just about put up with it for toothbrushing, otherwise drinking water comes from the 2L bottle. I can't easily lift a 4L one, so thank heavens our pitch in Cornwall this August is RIGHT beside the tap

In the past, we'd just bought the multipacks of 2L bottled water from the supermarket to use for drinking and making the tea, but it all depends how close we are to a tap

I think we will be using bottled water for drinking and aquaroll for washing up etc, seems to be the wise decision IMO.

Mike

we use milton at the start of the season before we change the water filter in the van.

we use the water from the aquaroll for dishwashing and for drinking water and water for the kettle as we use our water filter jug from home each time we go away, so it gets used quite a bit and the water tastes better after being filtered twice.

Ian