We are travelling over to France/Spain in 2 weeks time, and I just thought do I need to take the cart thing that slides under the mh to drain the waste water into with me, or can you drive over a disposal point at most places? Newbie to this so dont want to take it with us if not needed?
How to use the grey waste disposal?
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Drive over the disposal point is the normal way, everywhere has a drive over. I've never done anything else.
There are plenty of drive over waste disposal points in France, I wouldn't worry about it.
Seems almost every village has one...
Seems almost every village has one...
Only use the ‘wheelie’ when we are in one place for such a long time the tank needs emptying before we are ready to move.
We have never owned a wheelie so please don’t worry. Often we keep on top of things with a bucket emptied down the grey waste . I suppose having a PVC it’s surprising how economical you become even with our daily “navy” showers.
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Ditto.
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If you are unable to move or drive over a waste point then you can always drain grey into your toilet cassette (when empty!) and carry or wheel to the drain.
If doing that I would empty it in the toilet dump and not the grey water as you could end up on Facebook or YouTube
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If doing that I would empty it in the toilet dump and not the grey water as you could end up on Facebook or YouTube
That’s what I thought, can you imagine the others on site or Aire watching you empty your cassette 5 times in 20 minutes, they’ll be thinking poor sod
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Good tip, never thought of that as an option.
As others have said, we have never owned a caravan wheely gray water disposal tank.
Never needed one.
On small sites they quite often tell you to pipe or dump gray water into the hedges.
(You should find your van is supplied with what looks like a hose for a vacuum cleaner, it's the hose to fit to the gray water pipe so that it can be piped to the hedge or wherever.)
Most sites, even small ones, have a drive over drain for gray water.
Although slightly controversial, I have no problem is dumping gray water into roadside drains, I figure water that may contain a bit of soap and washing up liquid is not going to harm the environment any more that the tar, diesel, petrol, oils, exhaust soot and other waste products that get washed off the road surface every time it rains.
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I thought the wheeled waste containers were more a caravan thing that doesn't have a tank. If there's no drive over waste drain available I just use a collapsible bucket to carry it to a drain or hedge . Those big waste master's take up too much space
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I almost did that years ago in a caravan. It was the consequences of eating some bad oysters!That’s what I thought, can you imagine the others on site or Aire watching you empty your cassette 5 times in 20 minutes, they’ll be thinking poor sod
Thats all we do. If for some reason there is no easy to get to grey point which can happen especially when wilding or aires with no services I just bucket and chuck it. Bucket has many uses as well and easy to store.
I love seafood but never before a big travelling day, whether it’s by road or air. My brother in law had a terrible flight back from Porto where he’d been on business. He started feeling a bit off at the Airport but just as the plane took off the vomiting started and then the other end. He was lucky the steward shut him in a loo with bags and he stayed there for the flight!
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I had one bad experience with seafood in Greece back in 2013 which resulted in being violently ill for 4/5 days.....its put me off for life and I never touch it now bar fish
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Ah, the dreaded "both ends" effect. Explosive.
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To be fair, we have only used it 3 or 4 holidays and they were mainly our first two years. Since then we have toured much more and rarely need to empty before leaving anywhere.I assumed wheelies were just for caravan owners.
So it has now been relegated from always on board to the shed, unless we intend to spend at least a week in one place.
We carry the kit below which has had plenty of use for when the grey water drain isn’t a ‘drive over’, or we park beside the drain or on a fully serviced pitch or a hedge/ditch on sites that don’t have drains and advise tipping it in such places.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18746474...pid=5339023013&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
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