WHY do people collect their grey water in a bucket?!?

[monzer]

Really?
Well I never!

Hence the pubes you shower on.

 

[mitzimad]

To recycle the lumps

 

[chaser]

Nooooooooo.
Our tank is full-ish on set off, at about 80% and I just keep it topped up daily.
Takes minutes.

Yeah that's me as well, Julie does the washing up and what women do in a morning while I fetch a 15 ltr watering can of water and if on grass empty the grey there if not in to a folding bucket for under the hedge or waste place.
Check tyres and under bonnet then we are both ready for off all done

 

[Stewart J]

Firmly in the “bucket and chuck it club” and heinously Lenny I use a watering can good exercise and you can meet and gossip with some lovely folk waiting your turn at the tap. I certainly cannot be bothered to queue at motorhome service points to dump grey waste and top up fw. But hey as they say “whatever floats your boat”

 

[chaser]

Firmly in the “bucket and chuck it club” and heinously Lenny I use a watering can good exercise and you can meet and gossip with some lovely folk waiting your turn at the tap. I certainly cannot be bothered to queue at motorhome service points to dump grey waste and top up fw. But hey as they say “whatever floats your boat”

Can't fault it you don't have to move the van , get a bit of excerise, and everything is ready to go in ten minutes.

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[chaser]

And I must add if the toilet wants doing as well, about every four days I do that as well carry ing it , can't do with waiting with other vans.

 

[Mzracer]

Not in my experance takes ages to fill a 160 Lt water tank with a bucket.

Hose for me Lenny as well, would take blinking ages to fill a 120 to 160 litre tank. I use the MH facilities just like I was at home, why pay a heap of money and not use what is offered?

 

[chaser]

Hose for me Lenny as well, would take blinking ages to fill a 120 to 160 litre tank. I use the MH facilities just like I was at home, why pay a heap of money and not use what is offered?

Yes but you don't empty it everyday.

 

[scotjimland]

motorhome life is full of puzzles

just a few examples>>..

Using site toilets rather than using the toilet in the van
Flashing LED lights up flagpoles
Installing a ranch style fence complete with solar lights around the pitch
Not pooing in their cassette .. that is the strangest..
On an otherwise empty 2 acre CL .. someone arrives and parks next to you

and yours.
why do people cart grey water in a bucket ?


I just accept they want to do it .. does it really matter ?

 

[Mzracer]

Yes but you don't empty it everyday.

About every two days for both, never could understand a MH I saw advertised that had around 100 litres of fresh and 70 litres of grey waste capacity. Needs to be just about the same.

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[chaser]

motorhome life is full of puzzles

just a few examples>>..

Using site toilets rather than using the toilet in the van
Flashing LED lights up flagpoles
Installing a ranch style fence complete with solar lights around the pitch
Not pooing in their cassette .. that is the strangest..
On an otherwise empty 2 acre CL .. someone arrives and parks next to you

and yours.
why do people cart grey water in a bucket ?


I just accept they want to do it .. does it really matter ?

Must admit I'm all for parking next to others just to see how long it takes them to move away from an ambulance.

 

[scotjimland]

About every two days for both, never could understand a MH I saw advertised that had around 100 litres of fresh and 70 litres of grey waste capacity. Needs to be just about the same.

toilet flushing water .. say 20L .. 10L drinking = 30L

 

[IRHP]

Not in my experance takes ages to fill a 160 Lt water tank with a bucket.

Why on earth would you need to fill it?

 

[IRHP]

About every two days for both, never could understand a MH I saw advertised that had around 100 litres of fresh and 70 litres of grey waste capacity. Needs to be just about the same.

Some for drinking, some for toilet. Seems to work fine

 

[CAB96]

About every two days for both, never could understand a MH I saw advertised that had around 100 litres of fresh and 70 litres of grey waste capacity. Needs to be just about the same.

Not if you drink it? Goes in a separate container then!

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[treblid]

It looks to me the main distinguishing factor here could be people who do long term stays on campsites Vs those who maximise their onboard facilities and use Aires and wild camping. The latter means you use your camper's capacities and equipment.

 

[Ava the Adria]

I do not understand why people place a bucket to collect their grey water when they have a grey water holding tank?

What is the appeal of carrying a bucket every day to the grey water disposal rather than emptying the MoHo tank at the end of the stay?

Please enlighten me!

If your grey tank smelled like ours you'd get it!
So may as well bring back a watering can full of fresh at the same time. Saves all that faff too, moving when settled. Not an issue if moving every couple of days. Or on a CL, letting the 25L tank overflow into the undergrowth. Fill the fresh on arrival.....

 

[chaser]

It looks to me the main distinguishing factor here could be people who do long term stays on campsites Vs those who maximise their onboard facilities and use Aires and wild camping. The latter means you use your camper's capacities and equipment.

Spot on, why buy something you don't use.

 

[scotjimland]

those who maximise their onboard facilities and use Aires and wild camping. The latter means you use your camper's capacities and equipment.

we use use aires and if staying more than a day use a Fiamma grey waste carrier, at the same time also top up fresh with a water carrier...rather than moving .. and risk losing your pitch ..

 

[Lenny HB]

Why on earth would you need to fill it?

Why wouldn't you we always travel with a full tank as I said eairler you never know when you will be able to fill up next & we like our morning showers.

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[chaser]

Why wouldn't you we always travel with a full tank as I said eairler you never know when you will be able to fill up next & we like our morning showers.

But ours is always full it's filled every morning with a watering can.

 

[enark]

I do not understand why people place a bucket to collect their grey water when they have a grey water holding tank?

What is the appeal of carrying a bucket every day to the grey water disposal rather than emptying the MoHo tank at the end of the stay?

Please enlighten me!

In my case Cus the valve leaks, and to date the dealer has failed numerous times to fix it.

 

[Outdoors Dad]

I collect mine in a waste hog type thing and every 2 days I wheel it to wast point. It's much easier than starting van and driving to MH waste point that usually has people waiting. Only a few places I've been to this year have had a drive over waste point on site. On THS sites you can usually drive right up to fresh water hose where I usually fill tank with fire bucket with help of family. Doing this saves the dripping hose being in my locker. Sometimes in life the the most convenient things/ways aren't the best way to do things.

 

[Ava the Adria]

Why wouldn't you we always travel with a full tank as I said eairler you never know when you will be able to fill up next & we like our morning showers.

Guess we've been spoiled by Germany, 100 litres for €1 at most places, so never usually travel with more than 50L in the tank

 

[chaser]

Years ago on here I must admit I used to make fun of watering can users , couldn't see the point when you could use a hose , but then I got one for if we couldn't find a tap that fitted our hose and after using it once never went back , it's just so simple.

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[Carolyn and Kev]

It saves it dropping on the floor and someone blaming me for letting it drip on my pitch !

Kev

 

[Nirvanauk]

I don't stand in anyone else's hairsuit deposits cos' I wear my cross in the site showers.
And my shower is not really that big and I don't see the point in filling my watertank to then empty it with a shower to create more waste to have to lug away in my bucket.
Yes, I could refill my tank by moving the van, and empty the waste, before going back to my pitch, to rehook up everything AGAIN, but I prefer to keep things topped up waterwise with my watering can for fresh water, and emptied with my bucket, if on site for a few days.
It's dead easy, and the measures of watering can to bucket are equal.
If I was moving daily, then things would be different, filling and emptying wise, but we don't move daily.
Just our choice thanks.
Oh, and on a lot of the quality sites I have stayed on with almost regimental cleaning routines, said bodily deposits are non-existant.
Just saying like...........

 

[Lenny HB]

Guess we've been spoiled by Germany, 100 litres for €1 at most places, so never usually travel with more than 50L in the tank

You was lucky, as I said eairler two days running two Stellaplatz in Germany services out or Order, good job we always brim the tank.

On our second night on Stellaplatz with no sevices at the moment and will be here for a third night.

 

[KevinTuplin]

The waste tank stays empty, I get the exercise and the buckets always clean because I bring the fresh water back in it, coffee sometimes has a funny tang though I’ll have to sort that out

Perhaps you occasionally forget to rinse the bucket before refilling ìt

 

[Mzracer]

toilet flushing water .. say 20L .. 10L drinking = 30L

No way toilet flushing is 20 litres, when you are urinating and pooing in there, drinking would come off of your toilet cassette figure.

Once one is empty then the other is 100% full in our usage, maybe other folk use the water differently, like using buckets under the grey discharge.

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