plastic taste from new hose

Hook it up in the full sun. Heat will help soften the hose and increase the leaching of the plasticizers. Run some water through every few hours, repeat. Unfortunately it could take a couple days of this go be totally effective. I've had to explain this more than once to Ph.Ds putting ultra pure water into new carboys and wondering why all their test results went out of spec. Plasticizers are petroleum based and as they leach from new plastic it makes the Total Organic Carbons (TOCs) go through the roof.
 
nayther said:
Just one more thing to carry and hump around. I like simple. Or KISS.


I'll try the baking soda, didn't think about that. Might do vinegar first, then baking soda, that covers both sides of the PH.
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for me to carry a few gals of good clean water in no problem , its the same for beer.
why carry vinegar and baking soda all the time, it takes up room
 
x 4 for Zero G. I did think it tasted awful at first and ran water through it (at a low pressure) for about 3 days. There was a very happy tree in a Moab campground.

It's fine now and we love not wrassling with a dang white hose. 99% of the time we use campground water.


The main reason, that I know of, for a potable water hose is to avoid lead poisoning!
 
blue better

We also experienced your problem with a purchase of drinking water safe white hose from Lowe's. it was only to be used as an extension if needed. We needed it once and the taste, etc., was very noticeable. Returned it and will be getting another blue one like we originally got from our dealer for back-up use. It may be Camco but I'm not sure. The white one was about half the cost so I thought it a great find but I was very wrong on that one.
 
I'm sure you remember the old saying, "If you want first class hay you have to pay for it, if you want it after it's been through the horse, you can usually get it cheaper.
 
water quality varies so much from place to place. We really only use campground water for bathing and dishes. If we cook or brew coffee we use bottled water.

You can also do yourself and your rig a big favor by opening up the site spigot and letting it free flow for a few seconds before connecting your hose. Depending on how busy that campground is that water could be sitting for a while. Once I connect up my hose to the spigot I let it free flow a few seconds before connecting up my filter then to the rig. Because my hoses also sit in a container and do nothing in between camping adventures.
 
I just wanted to chime in, I purchased a new blue "frost proof" hose from Ebay. "drinking water safe" but the foul taste was truly awful. This hose is 100 feet long, most of its run is in full sun, It is VEVOR brand. Our RV is currently stationary, used as a
"mother-in-law" cottage at my daughters house. The hose does not get a lot of flow.
I filled the hose with baking soda water, & let it sit for an hour or so. after flushing, the water tasted fine, but that might be a result of the flushing. the water in the hose may very well re-saturate with whatever as it sits in the hose, especially with the heat" on.

Unfortunately, the (aluminum?) hose fittings have begun to corrode, with white bits collecting in the screens. Well I had planned to install a filter set any way.
( I have other "garden" hoses with silver (aluminum?) fittings that do not appear to corrode, but they seem to have a brass or copper colored lining in the fittings)
Bottom line ... While I have a VEVOR sewage pump, and a VEVOR pressure washer pump that work ok so far, I do not recommend the VEVOR heated water hose.
The E-bay seller gave me a partial refund ( since I was too lazy to box it up & send it back), but I no longer have the opportunity to post a review on E-bay.
Happy thoughts, CE
 
Another vote for the Zero G drinking water safe. Before that, I had, and still use, a Teknor Apex hose that had a bit of an odor when new but subsided with time/use.
 
I have tried lots of RV water hoses, expensive to cheap. Can't stand zero-g, any hose that is stiff in cold weather, any hose with crimped fittings. Especially hate the typical white RV water hoses.

I have only found one that I truly enjoy. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Camco-Ev...BU6t_vkr9af4FV4G7HK5o1OtkZHpUf2saAiYOEALw_wcB

No weird taste, perfect stainless steel fittings (haven't leaked yet and are nice to use), and the biggest thing... It is never stiff, even in freezing weather. Easy to coil up and put away when breaking camp. We just left Tombstone (cold in the mornings) and now all my travel buddies want this hose...;)
 
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Nice! And the price is right! My Teknor Apex 25' half inch hose I bought 6 years ago, made in USA, is now more than double what I paid (looking at my Amazon purchase history) Buy the Camco now before tariffs kick in!



NMWildcat said:
I have tried lots of RV water hoses, expensive to cheap. Can't stand zero-g, any hose that is stiff in cold weather, any hose with crimped fittings. Especially hate the typical white RV water hoses.

I have only found one that I truly enjoy. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Camco-Ev...BU6t_vkr9af4FV4G7HK5o1OtkZHpUf2saAiYOEALw_wcB

No weird taste, perfect stainless steel fittings (haven't leaked yet and are nice to use), and the biggest thing... It is never stiff, even in freezing weather. Easy to coil up and put away when breaking camp. We just left Tombstone (cold in the mornings) and now all my travel buddies want this hose...;)
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Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t trust my water hose to be clean … I always put my filter on the camper end
 
Tentmaker said:
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t trust my water hose to be clean … I always put my filter on the camper end
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When you sanitize your plumbing, sanitize your hoses. Then I use filter at spigot so EVERYTHING is kept cleaner.
 
oldschool-54 said:
I just wanted to chime in, I purchased a new blue "frost proof" hose from Ebay. "drinking water safe" but the foul taste was truly awful. This hose is 100 feet long, most of its run is in full sun, It is VEVOR brand. Our RV is currently stationary, used as a
"mother-in-law" cottage at my daughters house. The hose does not get a lot of flow.
I filled the hose with baking soda water, & let it sit for an hour or so. after flushing, the water tasted fine, but that might be a result of the flushing. the water in the hose may very well re-saturate with whatever as it sits in the hose, especially with the heat" on.

Unfortunately, the (aluminum?) hose fittings have begun to corrode, with white bits collecting in the screens. Well I had planned to install a filter set any way.
( I have other "garden" hoses with silver (aluminum?) fittings that do not appear to corrode, but they seem to have a brass or copper colored lining in the fittings)
Bottom line ... While I have a VEVOR sewage pump, and a VEVOR pressure washer pump that work ok so far, I do not recommend the VEVOR heated water hose.
The E-bay seller gave me a partial refund ( since I was too lazy to box it up & send it back), but I no longer have the opportunity to post a review on E-bay.
Happy thoughts, CE
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bury the hose .... stationary
or at least find some shade for it

the heat is more than likely causing the horrid taste... leaching the chemicals faster


Use the tank... fill it up after you allow some water to flow out of the hose
use a camco carbon inline filter
 
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