by ialwaysneedaroadtrip » Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:25 pm
Follow-Up:
Got the tiny flip-top trashcan you all recommended from WM, and it fits perfectly in my tiny bath.
I got distracted with the AC problems I had while I was at V V Village for the 3 days prior to the 4TH, but now that that's fixed I remembered about the maceration test I actually went there to do in the first place; I can report that it worked like a charm...did not put any TP down it, and furthermore discovered that by myself and even with putting all my caught water from the kitchen sink down the black just to make sure there was enough water in there...the black tank didn't even register as having anything it in before I left on the 3rd day! (Yes...all the indicators work)
Of course I wasn't in the RV as much as I would be if I was ACTUALLY far from home, AND if the AC had at least gotten the house down below 90...I would have spent more time in it. However, with all that extra water I put down there, I thought I would have gotten it to register at least to a 1/4 full...but nope...nothing doing. That just tells me that TP is the culprit in both causing clogging problems, and in making the indicator perhaps register incorrectly in RVs in general. And that's WITHOUT a macerator!
Once again...thank you all for your advice; I'll never allow anyone to put anything other than what comes out of their bodies down my black tank for as long as I have her.
P.S. I also got a mesh screen for the shower drain to catch hair, which ALSO worked like a charm. That article that you sent me Beth lead me to reading about someone saying that hair had destroyed the impeller on his macerator. That kind of sent me into a panic since both me and my DD have long hair. But I found the thing I needed for that also at WM.
Cindy, 3 dogs, 2 birds, and 1 turtle
“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you
and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them
you will not know them, and what you do not know
you will fear. What one fears one destroys.” Dan George