How much Puriclean?

[acropolis22]

The instructions say 1 teaspoon per 4.5 or 5 litres, depending on whether you read the English or French instructions. . So, if my fresh water tank holds 120 litres I need to add approx 27 teaspoons of Puriclean? Not sure if I'm missing something.

 

[Reallyretired]

Thats around 130ml. I would use something a bit larger than a teaspoon to measure it.

 

[acropolis22]

Thats around 130ml. I would use something a bit larger than a teaspoon to measure it.

Why?

 

[the1andonly]

Accuracy.

or lazyness lifting 27 spoonfulls.

 

[Stealaway]

Why bother very few others do - including me - ever.
Fresh water is dosed with chorine to keep that way.

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[U.Toadifact]

I use a hypodermic syringe attached to a small length of silicon tube. The graduations on the syringe make it easy to draw up the correct volume from the bottle then insert the tube into the water filler to squirt the Puriclean in.

 

[acropolis22]

I use a hypodermic syringe attached to a small length of silicon tube. The graduations on the syringe make it easy to draw up the correct volume from the bottle then insert the tube into the water filler to squirt the Puriclean in.

Interesting. But I'm using the powder.

 

[U.Toadifact]

Why?

 

[acropolis22]

Why?

Didn't know there was any choice when I bought it.

 

[U.Toadifact]

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[buzz1]

Yes that’s what I do , it’s a powder for cleaning tank twenty seven tea spoons , then leave for up to 12 hrs , then I run it through all taps and then leave in grey tank then let it out 12 hrs . Then flush out fresh water tank twice . Then when I fill up to go away I add the liquid version

 

[Aspenshaw]

Your calculation is right. I use a 125ml measuring cup, available from Lakeland or from the kitchen drawer when the cook isn't looking. Other sizes of cups are available. I sprinkle the Puriclean into the tank from the measuring cup.

 

[Dorwyn]

You see, simple question, swift reply, hours of mental torment saved. Isn't this forum great? And I mean it, no sarcasm.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Why bother very few others do - including me - ever.
Fresh water is dosed with chorine to keep that way.

I came home yesterday, from 12 days away to find the heavily chlorinated tap water in my coffee machine had gone green. It’s not just the light, as the 5 litre containers I use for fresh drinking water every day get green or black in the shed over winter. Our tap water stinks of chlorine.
I often get black bits in the water out of the taps in the MH if not cleaned every year, black bits = bacteria in my book.
So I use puriclean at the start of every season.

 

[Podney]

The instructions say 1 teaspoon per 4.5 or 5 litres, depending on whether you read the English or French instructions. . So, if my fresh water tank holds 120 litres I need to add approx 27 teaspoons of Puriclean? Not sure if I'm missing something.

But you don’t have to fill the freshwater tank. Half full will do the same job if you drive it around to get it sloshing about. Then put it through all taps. Then drive around again to slosh it around in the waste tank.

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[acropolis22]

But you don’t have to fill the freshwater tank. Half full will do the same job if you drive it around to get it sloshing about. Then put it through all taps. Then drive around again to slosh it around in the waste tank.

You're probably right, but we all have different situations to deal with. It's easier for me to fill the tank and leave overnight.

 

[Shrimp]

We used Puriclean, or some such powder, never again it took ages and gallons of water to clear it out of the system!

 

[Stealaway]

I came home yesterday, from 12 days away to find the heavily chlorinated tap water in my coffee machine had gone green. It’s not just the light, as the 5 litre containers I use for fresh drinking water every day get green or black in the shed over winter. Our tap water stinks of chlorine.
I often get black bits in the water out of the taps in the MH if not cleaned every year, black bits = bacteria in my book.
So I use puriclean at the start of every season.

Could it be the water in your area?
I really never had any problems with water in my Moho or my boats in over twenty years.
My first Moho tank tasted of plastic but nothing more

 

[Lenny HB]

I came home yesterday, from 12 days away to find the heavily chlorinated tap water in my coffee machine had gone green. It’s not just the light, as the 5 litre containers I use for fresh drinking water every day get green or black in the shed over winter. Our tap water stinks of chlorine.
I often get black bits in the water out of the taps in the MH if not cleaned every year, black bits = bacteria in my book.
So I use puriclean at the start of every season.

Never had any problems like that. Chlorine does disperse after 4 or 5 days so always best to drain the tank after a trip, which I always do.
The only thing our tank sees apart from water is a dose of white wine vinegar once a year when I'm descaling the boiler.

 

[the1andonly]

, no sarcasm.

sure some could be supplied if required.

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[Gromett]

Didn't know there was any choice when I bought it.

Brilliant

 

[Zebede4500]

We use Citric Acid (food grade), dirt cheap on Amazon. Dose the fresh water, drive around a bit, drain out into waste tank, drive about a bit, drain, all done. If you want to save on diesel for the ‘drive around a bit’ just let the grandchildren play in the van for a couple of hours; similar effect !!

 

[edzt]

We use Citric Acid (food grade), dirt cheap on Amazon. Dose the fresh water, drive around a bit, drain out into waste tank, drive about a bit, drain, all done. If you want to save on diesel for the ‘drive around a bit’ just let the grandchildren play in the van for a couple of hours; similar effect !!

Grandchildren......in my van, I feel faint!!

 

[DrDeath]

Never had any problems like that. Chlorine does disperse after 4 or 5 days so always best to drain the tank after a trip, which I always do.
The only thing our tank sees apart from water is a dose of white wine vinegar once a year when I'm descaling the boiler.

Brilliant for the boiler!!
How much white wine vinegar?
Really hard water down our way

 

[Lenny HB]

Brilliant for the boiler!!
How much white wine vinegar?
Really hard water down our way

About 3 Lt and about 10 Lt of water in the fresh tank so I can fill the boiler and run it through the cold pipes as well.

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[DrDeath]

Thanks Lenny

 

[acropolis22]

Well, not having a set of scales or a calibrated measuring jug, I laboriously spooned in 27 teaspoons of Puriclean powder into a jerry can. Shook it up several times to dissolve the mix. Poured the mixture into the fresh water tank. Ran all the taps in turn to pull water through. Left overnight. In the morning ran all the taps to empty the fresh water tank into the grey waste, then emptied out the grey. Hosed fresh water into the tank from the top so I could spray clean water into all the corners. Seemed like a better bet than filling the tank and hoping. Emptied out both tanks. The fresh water coming from the tanks now smells and tasetes good. Previously it smelt of drains. And when we did our final leg back home there was not the usual smell of drains coming from the wastes. So all in all, I'm pretty happy with how that went. I've emptied the boiler now too, and plan to deal with that separately before next trip. Thanks to all for your various suggestions. People say that fresh water supplies are chlorinated and should not need sanitising, but that doesn't allow for farmyard tainted supplies or build up of contamination in the vehicle pipework or taps.