Black hose cleaning

[Nan]

How do you clean your sewer hose? Is running water through enough?

[NewBlackDak]

If you are doing black dump, black flush, then gray when you dump, it’s about as clean as it needs to be.
This assumes the gray is just water and soap, and you’re not letting a bunch of food get into the gray.

[michael.g]

Does your RV black tank have a rinser? The last 2 Jayco RVs we've owned had them. After dumping the black tank, I just close the valve and turn on the water to the black tank rinse. I let it fill up the tank about 1/2 - 2/3s full and dump again. Rinse and repeat. Then follow up with the gray tank. You can also buy wands to rinse the black tank if you do not have an in tank rinse.

-Michael

[JFlightRisk]

We use a sewer hose rinser like this. Screws onto your water hose, and twists onto the sewer hose. It works well.

https://www.newegg.com/p/0FB-05BH-00...9SIAP81BKB3398

[Boooker]

Like the other responses I do a pretty good rinse when breaking down. I keep my hoses in a plastic tub with locking lid in the bed of the TV. Once home I take the tub out back and fill it with a bleach/water solution, probably 2:10 which is double the recommendation for cleaning up blood borne pathogens. I make sure the hoses and fittings are submerged and full, dump, rinse and air dry. Takes all of about 20 minutes and after dry - back in to the TV.

[NCMFFD]

Originally Posted by NewBlackDak

If you are doing black dump, black flush, then gray when you dump, it’s about as clean as it needs to be.
This assumes the gray is just water and soap, and you’re not letting a bunch of food get into the gray.

This is my routine as well.

[2edgesword]

I dump the black tank, run the black tank flush and then dump the gray tank. I agree with the others that say after dumping the gray tank the hose is as clean as it needs to be. I've been doing it this way for seven years and haven't had any issues with bad smell or build up of any kind.

[pward]

Originally Posted by 2edgesword

I dump the black tank, run the black tank flush and then dump the gray tank. I agree with the others that say after dumping the gray tank the hose is as clean as it needs to be. I've been doing it this way for seven years and haven't had any issues with bad smell or build up of any kind.

I'm going to disagree with this some, due to type of Rhino hose I used which extends and compresses. I don't feel that, especially at a dump station, rinsing with the gray tank water is sufficient as this style hose is most likely not expanded all the way out and particles may hide in the crevices. I always expanded the hoses fully once I got home and rinsed them very well with a hose nozzle. Did the same with fittings and then sprayed everything with Lysol before putting them away.

[Siamese]

I just do the typical black tank flush followed by gray tank emptying to give the hose a final rinse.

That's clean enough for me. It goes into a black tote box with a hinged lid, where we also keep our Rhino see-through adapter.

I'm sure the inside of the hose is filthy. But, why would I care? The outside is relatively clean, and whenever I handle it, I'm wearing rubber gloves.

I see no issue here.

[2edgesword]

Originally Posted by pward

I'm going to disagree with this some, due to type of Rhino hose I used which extends and compresses. I don't feel that, especially at a dump station, rinsing with the gray tank water is sufficient as this style hose is most likely not expanded all the way out and particles may hide in the crevices. I always expanded the hoses fully once I got home and rinsed them very well with a hose nozzle. Did the same with fittings and then sprayed everything with Lysol before putting them away.

To each his own. My thinking would be any particles that enter crevices while dumping the black are going to get removed when dumping the gray tank. Beyond that spraying water from a hose is NOT going to rinse every inch of a 20-25 foot Rhino hose. The first few feet of the Rhino hose may get sprayed around the whole circumference of the hose but after that areas at the top side of the hose aren't touched.