Help - water coming straight out when filling (1 Viewer)

[MR. FUSION]

I was trying to drain it (now) in cas no need to take it apart and fiddle with stuff. Anyway update. I've kicked it hit it called it names and screamed while pressing stuff. Filling it up and the water is no longer draining out. Pump is off too. Thanks for all your help - I feel relived like you would not imagine! So - to stop this happening in Scotland- leave the water on and eat up into gas, or is there another ingenious solution I can fashion up?

I have one like this and it sounds like pain in the bum if you go cold weather camping. My experience is its got to get lower than 7 degrees for a pipe to freeze. Is your tank & pipework internal or external IE winterised ? Maybe just capping the end of the input pipe to the valve would do it, but if the system overpressures there would be a problem. If you can switch off the water pump seperately, how about leaving a tap open to guard against over pressure due to frost ?

 

[TheWM]

My van is winterised. I think we will leave the heating on low.

 

[Lenny HB]

My van is winterised. I think we will leave the heating on low.

If you have been using the heating during the evening there should be enough latent heat in the van to avoid any problems, with the blue mechanical dump valve (as yours) it has to get down 3 deg before it dumps.

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