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11-11-2018, 02:35 PM #1
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Drinking water
Just would like to know from all of you fulltimers what you do for drinking and cooking water. We will begin our fulltime journey middle of Jan. 2019. When we travel now we buy bottled water for drinking then gallon water jugs for making coffee and cooking. Space wise that is not going to work for fulltime. Water in the fridge takes up too much space and storing gallon jugs, seriously no room. Our 5th wheel is 31'11". We use a filter on hose when we fill up but not too sure we trust water supplies. Thanks Tara
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11-11-2018, 04:19 PM #2
Drinking water
We just buy the 2.5 gallon spring water jugs and keep 2 or 3 of them in the floor of the truck behind our seats.
Can’t really get around it if you don’t like drinking from the fresh tank.
Our fifth wheel is 26’9”
We use a filter and water softener.
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11-11-2018, 04:36 PM #3
https://www.berkeyfilters.com
We use a berkey water filter. Filters out all sorts of stuff including viruses, bacteria, sediments, etc. (The full list is on the web site). If you search for scratch and dent berkey you can get discounted ones that have a slight ding which is very unnoticeable.
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11-11-2018, 06:34 PM #4
Drinking water
I’ve seen those, but it’s just a fancy water filter. I can’t see paying $500 or more, on a water filter. They didn’t used to cost that much, but social media and the millennials hyped them up so much now they’re trendy so they can charge far more.
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11-11-2018, 06:45 PM #5
I can agree with that logic. We paid right around $200 for ours for the 3 gallon version. We've had it for about 3 years, still going strong. It's worth it for us, we mainly stay on an Army base that has known contamination in their wells. I'll pay the extra $$ for safe drinking water.
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11-11-2018, 10:03 PM #6
It’ll take me a couple years to spend $500 on drinking water.
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11-11-2018, 10:33 PM #7
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We use a filter (sediment & charcoal) and water softener and just use the water the park provides. My wife and I owned and operated an RV park for 12 years. If you knew all the state test the park water has to pass in order to serve the public you probably wouldn't worry so much. It is more certain that the water is good at most RV parks than the water at your own home especially if you are on a private well where the water isn't even required to be tested.
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11-11-2018, 10:58 PM #8
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We do the same thing.
My wife is really picky about good clean tasting water and this works really well for us. We bought our dual canister filter setup from https://www.rvwaterfilterstore.com
One canister has the sediment filter. The other has the charcoal filter. We aren't full timers but we do spend the winter in our rig.Brian & Kellie
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11-11-2018, 11:25 PM #9
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Unless it's from a private well, parks and campgrounds provide treated potable water from municipal water systems that's been tested just like you would get in your house (if you have one). We use a carbon filter on top of that (whole house) that gets rid of most tastes. If we're in a place where even the carbon filter doesn't get rid of the bad taste (like in Cincinnati where we are now - or Abilene, TX, where the water is the worst-tasting on the planet), we just buy enough distilled water at Walmart to make coffee, drink, and cook with. It only takes three or four gallons a week for those functions and we have to keep it around for the wife's CPAP, anyway.
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11-11-2018, 11:26 PM #10
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