Waterline
Hi, I'm completely new to this. I've been advised I need a waterline to connect a clean water supply from the serviced pitch to the caravan.
The brand that's been suggested is the Truma Ultraflow but at about £90 it seems a lot for a hose pipe. Are there other brands I could use and save me a bob or two?
Thanks
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Only a minority of pitches are serviced and cost more. These have a tap on the pitch for your exclusive use. If you intend to use them you need to pipe the water from the tap to the caravan. The basic requirement is food grade pipe, but you also should restrict the flow, which the Truma does as well. If the flow is not restricted it can cause problems with leaks. The 15 m Waterline should have enough length for the job.
There are other methods of achieving this, using things like the Aquaroll storage container with a system using a float inside but that would cost about the same or more but works just as well.
It probably depends on if you are only going to use serviced pitches, as if not you do need the Aquaroll or similar container to use on non serviced pitches. These are simply filled with water at a communal tap and pump it into the caravan from the container.
What you need depends on how you want to use the caravan, which you do not say. It is probably worth looking round a couple of dealers to see what they have if there are some near you.
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Would this do? £30 from Halfords - though I just fill the espresso coffee pot at the nearest tap and use the facilities block for everything else.
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Hi Wildwood and eurotraveller, many thanks for your responses.
We only intend to use serviced pitches (I'm a wheelchair user so my wife has to do most of the work and we want to minimise this as much as possible).
I'll contact a couple of dealers about alternatives and look at the Halfords products.
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I've used the Aquaroll float valve system for years and there are loads available on Amazon and the like for under £30. I bought the bits separately and I think I only paid £1 per metre for the blue hose - from a Club shop on site! - but it was a while ago!! I carry 20m of hose - split into 3 unequal lengths to suit different layouts and have found that it copes with everything I have come across so far.
I also 'improvise' on a lot of the CLs and CS's we go on where you may have one tap shared between three or four pitches. I have a 4-way tap splitter that I attach to a tap allowing me and others to plumb in if they want to.
I can also recommend the Colapz waste pipe - much more convenient to store than the conventional pipe - although it is a bit expensive.
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Like you we only use SP and we have both the aquaroll and float and recently the Truma option. Setting up the Truma is really simple and far quicker, almost plug in and play and now our prefrerred option. It is an excellnet piece of kit and to us now worth the price
The aquaroll version takes longer to set up as you need to have the aquaroll out from where ever you store it, attach the float device then fill the aquaroll half way.
On packing away once again the aquaroll takes longer and even longer if you have to empty it then put it away. With the Truma it's just disconectt and store.
But with the aquaroll you always have some water left in it so if the pitch water supply fails (tap or hose freezes) you will still be OK (lag the aquaroll).
There has been talk of the pressure reduction value failing but I can't recall anyone actually having suffered this but we turn the tap off when off site just in case. The float devce can sometimes fail and then all that happens is the the aquaroll overflows and this has happened to me and I've seen it happen to others.
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I go for the float valve in the AquaRoll for the piece of mind that there cant be a flood of high pressure water into the caravan whatever happens. Whatever system the hose can freeze on a chilly night and one can take the AquaRoll to a working tap even if it is a bit of a faff to do so.
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As you are going to be using mainly serviced pitches I think it would make sense to have a proper setup which will create the minimum of work. Although some of the solutions might seem on the expensive side they could prove to be worth every penny in ease of use.
David
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"The float devce can sometimes fail and then all that happens is the the aquaroll overflows and this has happened to me and I've seen it happen to others."
It's happened to me @Cornersteady - I carry a spare one now!
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@richardandros yes it's almost funny seeing a lake around the aquaroll, especially as it had failed during the night for us. When I notice someone's outfit doing it and they're out then I turn the tap off. Luckily for me when I emptied it and reset the float it still worked.
Regarding the full value failing, which again I can't recall anyone of here posting about that actually happening to them - but perhaps someone can, that can be mitigated against somewhat by only having the pitch tap open only a little. Actually this applies to the float method too, I've had the connector come off the tap once or twice when going fully open.
But yes SP are just fantastic.
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Worth every penny. Agree with that +1. As I posted upthread the ease of setting up/away is certainly worth it, no more unstrapping the aquaroll and lifting it out from the front locker. The aquaroll is always there as a back up.
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The Truma water hose is real quick and easy, and we often opt for a serviced pitch so purchased the plug and play hose a couple of years ago. It also should have an over pressure valve fitted to avoid over pressure of your water system, however to be on the safe side I normally just crack open the tap enough as to supply plenty water without introducing air through the pump in the caravan. Some site water taps have a fair bit of pressure behind them. Works fine no problems and well worth 90 quid for the simplicity of plugging it in. Remember to drain the water out when finished or you can end up with a locker full of puddles
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