RV Sewer Hose Basics: Cleaning Attachments

This is the typical dump hose that most manufacturers would include with an RV, whether it's a motorhome or travel trailer. Comes with the bayonet end on here and an accordion hose. You're typically gonna have to put a worm clamp on this. Now there are some that are molded on here. A lot better connection, you don't have to worry about this loosening up and getting spillage out of here.

The challenge with this type of a hose, as you can see inside of it, it's got ribs so it's a lot harder to clean. But the reason for that is because it will expand and then I can put it in this compartment and it doesn't take up quite as much room as a full length hose. Now this is just gonna bayonet up on the top here like this and on this end, this is an aftermarket piece. Usually you're just gonna have the end here. Now I could use this without this elbow but when I put that into the dump station, typically you're gonna have about a three or four inch hole and a heavy lid over the top of it.

When I put that down in, I run the risk when I hit that valve, the weight of that fluid coming through there could literally pull that out. I'd have to put a rock or a brick or something heavy on top of this. That's gonna put some stress on here. It could collapse this hose. It could cut it eventually.

You get some wear and tear. So it's nice to put an elbow like this. I don't have to make a hard bend with my hose. And this is a nice one because it comes with the basic pipe in here. It has different steps for the larger and smaller hoses that you see.

I've got the lip here, clamps down. Now we're seeing a lot of the dump stations around the country closing. There were several at rest stops over the years but you see more and more closing because people aren't taking care of 'em. They're not cleaning up after themselves. They're not worrying about where all the stuff goes.

So a lot of them now actually require something like this for you to dump. So this one will fit into the opening. I put the lid back down. Some will even have a clamp on the top of it so it's a nice piece to have. Now when I'm done dumping the station with the hose, one of the things that you can use, instead of popping this off.

There we go. And running a garden hose in here and getting it to splash all over the place, I can just put this cap over the top of it, hook a garden hose and everything is contained. I don't have to worry about it splashing. There's another upgrade, this would fit on automatically and stay on there. And then once I bayoneted this on here like that, I do a quick connect from my hose and then that would clean it and I don't have to take it off, do that, and I can just throw my hose on the inside of it.

One last little gadget here that I think is a great idea is if you're gonna be at a campground for an extended period of time. If you got a long distance that you're going, you can get an extra section of hose. I would definitely keep a second one so if I can't get close enough to the dump station, for this hose I can add add a second one onto it. But we have this little item here. This is literally a hose caddy.

When I pull that out, that hose is gonna take off on me. It's gonna wanna straighten out. If I need it to go a little bit of an angle or something I can simply run this out to about 20 some feet. I can do any kinda angles I want with it. And that'll just keep my hose nice and secure so any time I pull that out, I don't have to worry that it's gonna take off on me and I'm gonna have to chase that hose anywhere around the yard.