How to Properly Dump Your RV Waste Water Tanks

To properly dump your wastewater tanks, you're gonna wanna start with the right tools. First of all, a pair of protective gloves like this. You don't want any pathogens, any sewage splashing onto your hands. Next then, I like to use this clear elbow here. It's gonna help me identify when my black water tank is really cleaned out.

This one has a nice adapter on the end of it that I hook a garden hose to. Once I'm done, I can clean this. I got a good quality hose on the bottom of this, the accordion style hose. That's gonna go into my sewer dump. Then I also want to make sure that I've got a garden hose that's dedicated to my sewage tank.

I don't wanna use this for anything else. I'm going to keep it in a compartment. I'm going to clean it out with bleach every once in a while, not use it for anything else. I also want a a black water tank flush like this wand here. We're gonna take this inside.

Or some of them have a black water flush that's incorporated right into the tank. So I can just hook up a garden hose and it's gonna help us flush the tank there as well. And you're gonna want the proper chemical. Now this is a toilet treatment that is pre-measured here. Or the handy little drop-in packets.

So, to properly dump these tanks, the first thing I wanna do is I'm going to going to dump the black water side. But I do wanna make sure that my hose is secure. I wanna make sure that when it's in the actual dump station that either got the self-locking piece or I've got a brick over the top of it. I don't want it going anywhere. Because once I pull this out it's gonna start to move on me because the weight of it.

And then I'm just gonna take my dump valve here and I'm gonna slowly pull it out and I'm gonna let it come out and go through. And I'm just pretty much gonna wait until that thing comes through. I'll see the effluent coming down in the inside here. And once it gets to the point where it's slowing down then I'll either go in with the wand and hook to a garden hose, go inside and use this. It's a little more cumbersome.

That's why I really like the flush valve. I'll have that hooked up. Then I'll crank that on and I'll just let it go. I'll let it run through there for probably 15, 20 minutes. Maybe not quite that much, maybe about 10, 15 minutes.

Until I start to see clear coming through here. Now, most people think that's when they're done dumping the black water tank. But what you wanna do at that point is to shut the valve. Let it fill up to two thirds. So go and look at your monitor panel inside and see when you're at two thirds full.

And then stop and come back out here and pull this out. And you'll be amazed at how much more effluent that you'll get out of here. Your tank isn't done being cleaned out at that point. So, then when you do that, you might have to do that a couple times. If you haven't cleaned it out like that, try it two or three times.

You'll see that there's a lot more that's still in there. And then just let that tank flush run for a little bit longer until you get that all cleaned out. So then I'm gonna shut the water off. I'm gonna shut this area here. And then I'm gonna go to my gray water tanks.

And my gray water tanks gonna be my shower and that stuff. So, I'll pull my gray water tanks out and I'll let that flow. And again, I can use this piece here to tell me when I'm done. After that I'll hook a garden hose up to here, crank this open. This is going to them.

Both valves will be shut. This is gonna back feed through here and it's going to clean my entire hose. So, using the right tools, using the right procedure, you can really clean your tanks out. And by doing that, you're gonna have less particles inside, less toilet paper, that type of stuff. That'll give you a false reading.

So you'll have cleaner tanks.