JackieP
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I've not stayed on a green field site for many a year but I'd like to know if anyone has ever parked up on a site and been aware that someone has dropped their grey water previously?
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It takes only a moment to ask the site owner/steward what the approved method for the place is so why not do so and abide by the answer?
So when pulling in to it, you drive over the drain and its slap bang in the middle of under your motorhome.
Plus it was a drain metal cover which weighed a tonne leaving a big hole.
I've never seen a motorhome with its drain valve positioned centrally underneath the chassis? - how would you get to it?
I think that might have been a manhole cover giving access to those of us who have black tanks rather than cassettes to empty...
JJ
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If only site owners in this country would get their acts together and provide the type of drive-over grid/drain as found on aires on the Continent then all motorhome grey water could be disposed of properly and all this controversy would be a thing of the past. Why don't they do it and provide proper facilities for us motorhomers. We are expected to pay the same as other users whilst not being properly catered for.I've been on sites where the owner/warden has told me to dump it onto the grass. Would you really argue with them and refuse to do it because you don't approve of it? What would you do instead?
The only time I've refused to empty it where they told me to was at a very popular, very expensive (IMHO) site in Wales who don't have any proper provision. I went into the office to ask what I was meant to do with it and was told "oh, just wait until you've driven out of the site and then just open your tap and dump it on the road as you drive away" I had to ask her if she was being serious. Apparently she was and that's what they tell everyone to do
If only site owners in this country would get their acts together and provide the type of drive-over grid/drain as found on aires on the Continent then all motorhome grey water could be disposed of properly and all this controversy would be a thing of the past. Why don't they do it and provide proper facilities for us motorhomers. We are expected to pay the same as other users whilst not being properly catered for.
Could you fit an Ultradrain kit?Have just changed my motorhome for a Tregano Tribute which has a grey waste discharge in the middle of the underside of the habitation. The discharge hole is about 3inch diameter, too low to get a bucket under and I would have to crawl under the vehicle to put a washing up bowl under. Perhaps someone could give me a solution.
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Extend the pipe ?Have just changed my motorhome for a Tregano Tribute which has a grey waste discharge in the middle of the underside of the habitation. The discharge hole is about 3inch diameter, too low to get a bucket under and I would have to crawl under the vehicle to put a washing up bowl under. Perhaps someone could give me a solution.
Have just changed my motorhome for a Tregano Tribute which has a grey waste discharge in the middle of the underside of the habitation. The discharge hole is about 3inch diameter, too low to get a bucket under and I would have to crawl under the vehicle to put a washing up bowl under. Perhaps someone could give me a solution.
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Dont be soft.....I bet you put bird food out for the poor tweety sparrows??? The very same birds eat carrots, peas AND noodles.....with uneaten carrot slices, peas, and noodles, together with shreds of sodden paper kitchen towel left behind. Ugh!
and don't even start me on the owners of another van who raised the flap of their awning very early every single morning to let a rather large dog out to wander and defecate unsupervised, presumably whilst they enjoyed an extended and unconcerned lie-in.
If only site owners in this country would get their acts together and provide the type of drive-over grid/drain as found on aires on the Continent then all motorhome grey water could be disposed of properly and all this controversy would be a thing of the past. Why don't they do it and provide proper facilities for us motorhomers. We are expected to pay the same as other users whilst not being properly catered for.
I think we'll have to agree to differ on this one.Completely missed the point of my post but never mind. If you define "proper facilities for motorhomers" as always including drive over drains we're never going to agree on this issue.
I bucket mine away to the grey waste emptying point as I wouldn't want some poor sod tripping over the ball of hair that was once on the wife's head prior to spending an hour using all the hot water!
But, what I did notice at our recent CC site Godrevy/St Ives visit was that their motorhome service point which was located in like a layby to the sites road, had its drain positioned in the middle of that layby. So when pulling in to it, you drive over the drain and its slap bang in the middle of under your motorhome.
Plus it was a drain metal cover which weighed a tonne leaving a big hole.
I've never seen a motorhome with its drain valve positioned centrally underneath the chassis? - how would you get to it?
So not only poor planning of siting the drain but you need to be Charles atlas to get the lid off. Mis-judge it and your wheel's down the hole.
Park off layby and you block everyone wanting to pass.
With events like this, it's no wonder people are tempted to drive off with the drain valve open.
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