Filling up with fresh water

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What is the protocol/etiquette for filling up with fresh water, please?

We have just acquired our first campervan; it has a 45 litre fresh water tank. What is the "done thing" for fresh?
* Fill up before leaving home (& travel with an extra 45 kg sloshing around)?
* Fill up on site (& if so, what would be a sensible length of hose to pack?)?
* Something else that hasn't occurred to me?

I'm presuming the "grey" water should go into a bucket and be disposed of down a drain; is that correct?

Thanks in advance...
 
I fill our 50ltr tank before every trip and make sure the grey tank is empty.

I like to arrive at a stop ready.
 
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You could even play safe and go half and half so you can have a cup of tea on the way then 25 litres when you get there would be just as easy with a watering can as messing about with a hose.

The grey water goes down a drain at a site but if on a smaller CL or CS the owner might want you to water the hedge back with it, just ask.

Martin
 
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As above. I fill mine at home and arrive full (110ltrs) and empty grey tank

I don’t have/use bucket for grey waste, I just fill tank, the use drop point at site

I carry two 10 meter hoses, that way I can join them for 20m, but most time only need to uncoil one of them.

I also use a filler fitting thing that allows tank to be filled with having to poke the hose into the water tank, as often hoses aren’t clean.
 
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We like the fresh tank full and the grey tank empty at all opportunities, so we head off like that and keep it like that as you never know when you're next chance will be...

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I fill up before leaving and carry a 10 litre container of fresh water, with a tap on for drinking. It can also be used to top up main tank - no special funnel, just a plastic bottle with the bottom cut off - never needed to top up like this so far
 
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Always travel with our 160 Lt tank full never know when you will next be able to get water.
Can't survive without our morning shower.:)

Always top the water, empty the loo and dump grey waste at every stop if possible.

On our current trip traveling down through France in February of the 4 Aires we stopped at only one had the water turned on.
 
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Like others on here l try to keep a relatively full fresh tank at all times topping up as often as l can using a 6 litre watering can. Firstly your never really sure if you can fill up if you let it run down very low and secondly adding fresh water each day just keeps it a wee bit fresher.
The grey is emptied (in the correct location) as often as possible too.

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Depends on how far we go, & how long for, if less than 100 miles and for more than 2 nights, will fill up 100 litres, if more miles will go empty aprt from a 10 l daily container for tea and water on route. When we get there we fill up and if we stay long enough without moving we top up with a pump and 35 l roller tank, but normally 100l will last 5 or 6 days, and we normally move on by then. The grey waste i normally empty into a black waste tank as it can get a bit smelly in the summer.
 
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For the odd times we use a site - Camping in the Forest site, we travel empty of all tanks. We fill on arrival at the site. Our 90 ltrs Grey is sufficient to carry a long weekends worth of water and if the site only has the pit type of disposal for the waste master, I take it back with me to storage and ditch there - I couldn’t be bothered getting my “Henry hose” out connect to waste and wait for draining then pack up a mankey hose never to be used for months again. If a motorhome point we ditch before leaving. Fresh if no site just BritStop we travel full having filled up from storage or home. We have a 25 mtr hose with the hose loc connectors and another 100 ft expanding hose for those far away taps.
 
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Empty. Why cart around nearly quarter tonne of water? takes alot of energy to move that kind of mass, anyway, it is readily available at sites. I have just returned from a site that had water at every pitch, which is handy. Just don't forget your hose...like I did. Donkey of the day award to me!
 
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I’ve traveled with my fresh water full (120 Lts) and I’ve traveled empty and have not noticed any difference in fuel economy. Now i prefer to travel more or less full so when I arrive where I’m going we are ready to just relax. :)
 
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Travel full if you can afford the payload. Otherwise only take what you'll need for the journey (assuming that you will arrive where water will be available).
Noticeable or not, that extra weight will require extra fuel to get it to the top of any hill.

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Empty. Why cart around nearly quarter tonne of water?

It's not only as BT has said but also MH weight. 1lt = 1kg so you can do the maths on the additional weight some of these MH are carrying, together with a tank of fuel our 3.5t PVC and 100lts (tank capacity) of water would be well over weight!

Mick
 
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I use TWO watering cans as its better for my balance and you only have to walk half the distance. Depends on sites so of the taps on CL's can be in the next field or on the corner of a barn. At least with a watering can you can fill up just about anywhere.

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Try fitting a hose to this one. I used a watering can. Nobody seem to mind and I let a few people with bottles fill them while I filled the watering can.

This tap is in Buxton and runs constantly

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It's not only as BT has said but also MH weight. 1lt = 1kg so you can do the maths on the additional weight some of these MH are carrying, together with a tank of fuel our 3.5t PVC and 100lts (tank capacity) of water would be well over weight!

Mick

How many people have a 250ltr water tank?
Mine holds 100ltrs so 100kg, just slightly more than I weigh. I wouldn’t not take a passenger
 
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You not turn off the tap? Waste of bloody water that.

Natural Spring water. I suppose if they put a tap on it then it would just leak out somewhere else.
 
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(Newbie alert!)
What is the protocol/etiquette for filling up with fresh water, please?

We have just acquired our first campervan; it has a 45 litre fresh water tank. What is the "done thing" for fresh?
* Fill up before leaving home (& travel with an extra 45 kg sloshing around)?
* Fill up on site (& if so, what would be a sensible length of hose to pack?)?
* Something else that hasn't occurred to me?

I'm presuming the "grey" water should go into a bucket and be disposed of down a drain; is that correct?

Thanks in advance...
Just remember, with the grey water, many places do not have a motorhome service point, so you wont be able to drive over a drain and empty the grey tank. So you will definitely need to carry something dedicated for moving the grey water.
 
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