Any handy gadgets for manual water filling?
Just wondering whether anyone has found a handy gadget to transfer water - battery operated or otherwise - when having to use a big plastic container and funnel to refill fresh water tank.
We were well away from a hose fill station and had little to choice but to trolley the fresh water to the motorhome. It was a very heavy lift to hold a full canister to the height of the fresh water infill and also needed a second person to hold the funnel.
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I use a Garmin sat nav suckery thing temporarlily stuck to the side of the van and an elastic band to hold the funnel in place, allowing me to hold the water container with both hands.....
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As above, or a 5 litre container.
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I think I have tried them all. A couple of collapsible containers tipped in using a funnel, rigid 5 gallon container again using a funnel, as you say very heavy. In both cases I used suckers to hold the funnel in place. I have also tried a 12volt submersible pump into the above rigid container but I have now got rid of all the above in favour of two 10 litre watering cans. Easier to carry one in each hand and tip into the tank. Tailor the size of can to what you can carry.
peedee
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Thank you all for the responses. I think watering cans it is. The large plastic containers are just too heavy to hold up high when filled and usually the person holding the funnel - i.e. me - is the one who gets a soaking when everything starts to wobble
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I use a 10ltr water can and a large tomato sauce bottle as a funnel. One side (the narrow side) of the bottle has a section removed into which the water is poured and the neck of the bottle is a snug fit into the vans filler neck. It holds itself in place
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I have a pump that fits a 30 litre rectangular water carrier , open kitchen window, plug in 12v lead, switch on and 5 mins later the 30 litres is in the m/home tank.
I use a collapsable sack barrow trolley to fetch the water, and To carry a black grey water container and cassette loo.
All a lot easier than moving a motor home to the taps.
rgds
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We can access our water tank from inside the van as it is under the floor. We also carry a 15m food grade hose which is split 5m/10m with hoselock joining connections. For filling from outside, we use a clean and empty pop bottle with a big hole cut into
one side and pour water into the bottle from a container. Many motorhomers top up with water cans as already said.0 -
We had 2 different techniques.
1 - Aqualroll filled and lifted onto the passenger seat - Then a simple gravity syphon to fill
2 - Bought a submersible pump and a cigarette-lighter adapter. Using the same aquaroll, and some hosepipe, I rigged up a simple pump.
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You must be fit and able to do the first!
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We still use our 40lts Aquaroll from our caravanning days. We are lucky in that our Bailey has a Whale fitting that is set up for pumping the water from the Aquaroll to the main tank. It does depend on how long we stay on site, two days or less we just use
the main tank.David
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A couple (or even three) very long hoses that can be joined together, usually close enough to a tap for this to work, or move the van and refill to brim in one go, rather than spend forever scuttling about with barrel etc.
its much easier to Mohammed to the mountain
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if you do need a way of pouring water in via the external filler, one of these will make the job a lot easier, leaving both hands free to do the pouring...
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