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09-28-2018, 05:40 PM
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[Puzzle Solved] - Shower/bath filling with water
Just hooked up at a state campground and hooked up water. For the last thirty minutes the shower is filling up with water coming from the drain. What do I do???
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09-28-2018, 05:44 PM
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Is your gray tank full? Usually the shower drain is lowest point and will come up from gray tank if full.
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09-28-2018, 05:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jcgso
Just hooked up at a state campground and hooked up water. For the last thirty minutes the shower is filling up with water coming from the drain. What do I do???
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Stop using water. You gray water tank is full. Your bathroom and/or kitchen sink is filling it. Be sure all the faucets are off. Empty the gray water tank.
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09-28-2018, 06:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cavie
Stop using water. You gray water tank is full. Your bathroom and/or kitchen sink is filling it. Be sure all the faucets are off. Empty the gray water tank.
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Do that NOW
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09-28-2018, 06:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jcgso
Just hooked up at a state campground and hooked up water. For the last thirty minutes the shower is filling up with water coming from the drain. What do I do???
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May have hooked the hose to the black tank flush, if the shower drains into the black tank.
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09-28-2018, 07:20 PM
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If the state park is here in your home state of NC, you won't have a sewer hookup and will need to tow to the dump station, which will be a real adventure after dark.
To prevent water sloshing out onto the floor enroute, I think I would dump a few gallons of gray into a bucket and dump it down the toilet...unless the black tank is full.
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09-29-2018, 05:09 AM
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Turn off your water and dump the gray tank!!
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09-29-2018, 10:07 AM
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Junior Member
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Location: Central North Carolina
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Thanks for all of the replies. Dumpinp grey water tank worked not fun in the dark. I just dont get how it was full, since we dumped at the end of our last trip. This is just our second time out, so still a learning process. Sure do appreciate this group!
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09-29-2018, 10:17 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jcgso
Thanks for all of the replies. Dumpinp grey water tank worked not fun in the dark. I just dont get how it was full, since we dumped at the end of our last trip. This is just our second time out, so still a learning process. Sure do appreciate this group!
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Long showers...doing dishes...doesn't take long to fill the gray tank!
And to empty the fresh water tank as well...
If staying at a park where there are no hookups, then your water consumption habits will need to change!
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09-29-2018, 10:45 AM
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Also not knowing your unit do you have more than one tank? We have two gray and two black. Just a thought.
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09-29-2018, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnD10
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You mean more "sink baths", hand sanitizer rather than a full hand wash, and paper plates/plastic utensils, rather than the usual water consuming methods?
Learned how to do that back when "tenting". Sure makes a tank full of water last a lot longer.
PS: when truly "Camping" everyone usually smells the same, like wood smoke.
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09-29-2018, 06:09 PM
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The Cherokee Wolf Pup website says your 2018 Wolf Pup 16FQ (in your public profile) has a 23 gallon grey water tank, a 23 gallon black water tank and a 32 gallon fresh water tank. Taking long showers and doing dishes will fill that 23 gallon grey water tank rather quickly and, as you noticed, when it gets full it backs up into the shower pan. Without a sewer hookup you’ll need to learn about “Navy Showers” or use the campground’s showers. You can conserve grey water tank capacity by washing dishes in small tubs and then dumping the dish washing water into the toilet where it’ll end up in the black tank. My experience is that the grey tank fills 2-3 times faster than the black tank. There are some options you can think about.
1. Be highly concious of water usage and conserve like crazy.
2. Buy a sewer tote and dump your grey tank into the tote and take the tote to the dump station - otherwise, you’ll have to continue to take the entire trailer to the dump station.
3. (If 1 and 2 are not desirable) only book full hookup sites.
You’ll figure out what you can tolerate and what works best for you through experience.
Hope you have fun with your new Wolf Pup!
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09-29-2018, 06:20 PM
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He said he had just hooked up to water with a gray tank he had emptied at the end of his last trip.
Seems strange that the tank would have overflowed that quickly. Takes me several days of showers and dishwashing to fill my 35-gallon tank. Maybe something else is wrong.
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09-29-2018, 06:26 PM
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Who Dares, Wins
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mjones12
He said he had just hooked up to water with a gray tank he had emptied at the end of his last trip.
Seems strange that the tank would have overflowed that quickly. Takes me several days of showers and dishwashing to fill my 35-gallon tank. Maybe something else is wrong.
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Could be but unless a sink / item is running water there is no way for the water to get into the gray tank. There is not a connection tot he gray from the fresh system unless it goes down a drain.
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09-29-2018, 09:50 PM
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We have a 66 gallon gray tank and we fill it at least once a day. There are 6 of us and we use actual plates and silverware, thus there are some dishes, etc. Also, we usually shower every night, but do so with water conservation in mind. The moral of our story is we need full hookups and the tank fills up fast. 23 gallons, even with just 2 people, wouldn’t take long.
Other campers have suggested just leaving your gray cracked open, a slight trickle out, others have said leave it open, others have said dump when needed. I prefer dumping when needed, usually after breakfast and after supper. Works for us.
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09-29-2018, 11:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mjones12
He said he had just hooked up to water with a gray tank he had emptied at the end of his last trip.
Seems strange that the tank would have overflowed that quickly. Takes me several days of showers and dishwashing to fill my 35-gallon tank. Maybe something else is wrong.
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We just dry camped for five nights on the onboard water will learnand tanks. Both of us shower well, nightly. We do use Oxygenics low flow shower head and water saving techniques and paper plates wiping pans and utensils with paper towels before washing. I drink the onboard water. We are frugal, but not obsessive. I dumped and flush on the fifth morning. Metered my fill hose and the hundred gallon plus FW tank was full again using just 48 gallons from the five days and nights.
But, that said, 23 gal gray water and 32 gal fresh is a budget that will require more discipline than we have to use. You will learn.
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09-30-2018, 11:08 AM
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I bet there was a faucet left on and when he hooked the water up it filled the gray tank up! That's easy to do with everything else happening while setting up. As soon as I hook up water that's the first thing I check!
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09-30-2018, 12:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by happyttowner
I bet there was a faucet left on and when he hooked the water up it filled the gray tank up!
As soon as I hook up water that's the first thing I check!
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I check all of the faucets before I hook up the water.
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09-30-2018, 02:56 PM
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Methinks you have two grey tanks with two valves, and you only emptied one last time out?
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09-30-2018, 03:37 PM
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I've come to the simple conclusion that you actually did NOT empty your gray tank after the last campground... you just may have 'thought' you did, emptying only the BLACK tank pull, riding to your new campground with a full gray tank.
When you arrived, you set up, hooked up, and then 'suddenly' realized that there was standing WATER in your shower.... it probably was already there during the whole trip. Since you don't 'ride' in your RV while you are towing it, no one would have noticed since they were probably already loaded up and in your tow vehicle when you dumped previously.
Your gray tank is also only 23 gallons, so it's easy to have a full tank pretty quickly. The shower is typically the 'low point' for the gray drain system - meaning that using other faucets, when the tank is close to or already full, will start filling the shower pan as the water starts backing up into the shower.
FUN!!! : )
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