HJGyswyt
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While out camping our fresh water supply line popped off the barbed hose fitting that ties the city water into the trailer plumbing. Water ran for a couple hours totally flooding the underside of our trailer, saturating the insulation below the floor and above the water proof barrier.
Before we left the campground I crawled under the trailer and cut open the black water proof barrier and allowed the trapped water to drain, looked like a hundred gallons flowed out. What a heartbreak, I've owned several RV's and all have suffered from dry rot in one form or another, so I knew this was not a good situation.
Once home I left the trailer tilted hard to one one side hoping the the water would migrate to one corner. I crawled underneath and began opening up the underside in various locations tracing how far back the water had gone into the insulation. Luckily the trailer wasn't perfectly level and the water was mostly in the front roadside corner.
After opening up and removing much of the insulation we turned the heat on high inside the trailer to dry out carpets and pads. Outside I rigged up my heat gun with a hose to deliver warm dry air to areas not accessible, like above the holding tanks. I also used heat lamps pointed at the underside to dry out areas hard to reach.
After a week, (who knows how much propane, and electric I used), I'm not finding any moisture anywhere. No signs of mold. I'll leave things open for another week and then begin the tedious job of re-sealing the underside to make it once again water proof.
I'm also adding heat tape to the water lines, I found out they routed them under the floor joist with only the black barrier and a scant amount of insulation to protect them from freezing, and in fact they did freeze up last winter with temps in the twenties, so we couldn't use our trailer while skiing up in the mountains.
I hope to have it back in service real soon. Hans
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NORM WADDELL
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I can top that !
On my 32 foot boat, the FUEL
(gasoline) line came loose,
and I pumped 50 gallons of
gasoline into the bilge.
The marina kindly towed me
to the FAR end, so I could
blow up alone! I scooped the
fuel out with a plastic cup,
praying for no sparks. No
damage done, and I had the
world's cleanest bilges !
L NORMAN WADDELL
30 FOOT ALLEGRO
SATURN TOAD
WIFE AND 2 DOGS SUGAR BEAR & COCO BEAR
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mhawk4
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That is a drag!!
I am so paranoiac about this situation, i hope and pray it does not happen to me.
Last year we were camping at stone mountain GA, our neighbor's kitchen faucet blew up while he was setting up; after several hour of clean up and drying he decided to finish his camping trip. Then the next day we had a huge storm, 30 minutes of pounding rain, wind and lighting lots of RVs suffer damage including ours; the neighbor with the water problem lost his awning from the roots tearing the side wall.
what the hell, lets go camping again!!
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HJGyswyt
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OK, finally got the pictures inserted correctly, only had to try four times. Yes, I wish just once one of these calamdies would be covered by insurance, but all my rework has been covered by my own wallet. Live and learn, and we will learn to trust our trailer again and enjoy it. As a side note, I always turn off the water when we leave our trailer for hikes or trips to town when were not around. Sad part was we were in the trailer with surround sound going and never heard the water running. Happy camping friends.
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lotust
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wow at least the leak was just underneath the trailer and not from under a sink ect..
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robbie69
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always turn off pump if leaving and shut off city water if full hook up. Never had a major problem but knowing how these things are built(finger tight supply line to toilet) why tempt fate.
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lotust
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robbie69 wrote:always turn off pump if leaving and shut off city water if full hook up. Never had a major problem but knowing how these things are built(finger tight supply line to toilet) why tempt fate.
thats the truth.. So many connections in my 06 were just barley tight enough not to leak.
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tomdrobin
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One advantage of a TT with fresh water tank below the floor is that if it leaks it won't be in the TT. Also, on another thread there was a discussion on silencing pump noise. I want to hear it if that sucker is pumping water and nothing is turned on. Good advice to turn of the pumps and city water when not at your TT.
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JimBrown
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Hmmmm... Our fresh water tank is under the couch/bed. Makes it a little easier to work on, but I sure hope it never springs a leak!
Part of my regular maintenance is to check the condition and connections there.
...jim
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