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Hi, to all, i have looked at a lot of comments recently about sterilising pipes etc and read lots of negatives about using chemicals. As a brewery owner and ex publican, we use a mixture of bleach and caustic soda (chlorinated caustic, commercially bought as beerline cleaner) to clean beer lines, as do all good pubs, everywhere. Beer lines generally consist of stainless steel casks or kegs (which we also clean with chlorinated caustic, but at a higher concentration), hard polypropylene plastic connectors, flexible plastic hose, stainless steel couplings, stainless steel tubing (runs through the cooler - on all lagers and smoothflow products) and push fit connectors. So my point really is, that, if every pub is using these kind of chemicals to clean their pipes at least once every week, with no problems incurred at all, why would it cause such problems in a caravan, which uses very similar if not identical materials for its pipelines????

Hi

I use Milton, a couple of caps in the Aquaroll, run it into the system, leave for 30 minutes, then run a full aquaroll of fresh water through.

We never have a problem with jippy tummies.

I would suggest the quality of a commercial fitting used in a pub would be better than that in a caravan. And it might be the alcohol residue that needs a more concentrated cleaner.

If you decide to have a go, let us know how you get on.

Cheers

Paul

Hi

Our "solutiom" ?

1  Prefer semitransparent jerry cans in favour of Aquaroll. £ 7 each, throw them away every season and replace, Advantage is that you can see when they are nearly empty at a glance. Stops Mrs FM burning out pumps galore.

2   Take a 2 lit bottle of Tesco cheapo water, and refill for drinking. A caravan system standing empty for months, and running at low pressure, must be like a water garden in the pipes, so we only use the system for washing up and showers etc. The charcoal filters you are supposed to change every 6 mths are a massive rip-off for my money, so leave them out.

3    Feed some pipecleaner through at end of season.

FM

Hi -

Could one difference be that on a caravan the cleaning fluid goes through the hot water heater? The instructions warn against leaving too long with cleaning flud in them and advise not to use bleach etc.

I steralize my barrels and caravan pipes with puriclean as milton leaves a taint in the system and in the filter,always drink water from caravan taps never had any problems with dicky tummeys been doing the same for the last 10 years as i said before everything is ok,i do steralize before going on each trip as i only manage to get away 3 times a year,

We fill the system with water and Puriclean when we first arrive on site and flush it out when everything is set up and always use the van water with no ill effects.

Andy

Done mine this afternoon - with Milton. and a good flush though afterwards. Will use Aqua Clean Tabs on site for first couple of fill ups.and if the weather is blazing sunshine. 

I am certainly with the Milton Crowd,

I buy the desolving milton tabs and fill my aquaroll with water and about eight tablets, I connect the roll to the van, Remove the filter and use an old filter cartirdge with all the charcoal removed run all the taps and shower for 30secs or so to get the fluid in the system. Leave for a few hours, or overnight,  Connect the wastehog and empty the aquaroll via all the taps and shower again, Sad but i use the waste hog to steralise that too !.  Then run a full barrel through the system to rinse and replace/renew the filter cartridge. 

No discolouration or damage to the pipes and no dodgy bellies.