Crazy Easy Way To Combine RV Black and Grey Tank
The greatest benefit of installing a composting toilet is not having to deal with a black tank; but what do you do with that unused tank that’s taking up valuable space in the RV? We thought about adding another freshwater tank, or removing the black tank and adding a larger grey water tank, or even adding a PVC pipe with a shut-off valve between the black and grey to combine the tanks; but the idea of me (Jason) removing or replacing anything of this magnitude in the RV sounds like a horrible idea. So I gave up…until we were having dinner one night with our friends the RV Geeks and they recommended the most ridiculously simple, zero install idea of how we could combine the RV black and grey tanks.
Before attempting to combine your black and grey RV waste tanks It is important to understand the capacity of your specific RV tanks.
How Not to Replace an RV Bathroom Faucet
Replacing a bathroom faucet should be one of the easiest Do-It-Yourself modifications one can do in an RV. In fact it’s so easy I told Nikki "I won't even need any tools" and "it should only take me an hour!" Since I’m writing an entire post, and the video below is 11 minutes 25 seconds long, you can guess I hit a few road bumps along the way during my bathroom faucet swap. So with my head held low in shame, may I present our video on How NOT to Replace your RV Bathroom Faucet!
Best Converter Charger for an RV – Smart VS. Dumb
Before we had our new RV Solar installed I had never heard of a Converter Charger, and I surely wasn't worried if it was a Smart Converter Charger or not! Here we are 6 months later and oh how much we've learned. After tons of research on my basic questions: "What is a Converter Charger?", "Why Do I Need a Converter Charger?", "What's the Difference Between a Regular and Smart Charger?", and "How Many Amps are Needed to get the Best and fastest Charge for my RV Batteries?" Here's what we've come up with on why you should get to know the very important, yet rarely discussed, Converter Charger. Let's begin with a simple description: A Converter Charger is a device that Converts 110 Volt AC (household) power into 12 Volt DC (battery) power and simultaneously charges the RV batteries. Simple enough right? Well...nothing beats a good old school flip chart comparison! Go ahead, click play. What did you think? Did you learn anything new or should we just use the flip chart as fire starter?
Moving RV’s – What a Pain in the A**
Who knew moving houses only five feet from each other would still be so much work…I take that back, the moving was simple, the organizing (the cabinets are different sizes), purging (the toys we planned on using, haven’t, and now need to let go) and growing pains of learning a new RV (auto gen start, different slides, electrical systems…) are well, way more work that we ever anticipated! So much in fact that we are still settling in.
Before we moved all our junk in, we shot this quick look so you could see our new RV just as it comes…gold bedding and all.
