I'm a bit confused as to why people think they need such a huge amount of water in a caravan without a shower when staying at sites with washing-up facilities and sanitation? Obviously it would be different if you had a caravan with a built-in shower and actually used it (many WWB owners appear not to), but an Eriba?

The under-sink container in our Triton holds 16 litres and we use that for making tea, cleaning teeth, hand washing and cooking. We very occasionally will boil a kettle and rinse out some pots but nearly always use the site washing up sinks.

Typically, a container of water will last us around four days and if we are only on-site for a day or two, I don't fill the container and try my best to have as little water in it as possible when towing as it makes no economic sense to drag water, which is heavy, between sites wasting fuel in the process.

Three watering cans full of water will top up the container and the toilet flush tank and doing that once every four days or so is hardly an onerous chore.

I'm a great believer in the KISS principle of caravanning - keep it simple, stupid.

Quote: Aaron Calder wrote in post #17

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I'm a bit confused...

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Here's the link Frantone added some time ago:- CAK

Quote: Pepé Le Pew wrote in post #18

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We choose small sites which frequently don't have swanky washing up facilities, and even if they do we'd mostly rather wash up in the van than cart a bowlful of dirty pots and pans hundreds of yards in the rain to a grubby sink only to be beaten to it by someone else.

We even dare to use sites which don't have showers or toilets, so we will necessarily consume more water than others do.

Your KISS ethos is fine for you, but not everyone chooses to do things the way you do, and it's unfair to criticise them for it.

So ner

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Quote: Pepé Le Pew wrote in post #18

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And anyway, isn't it about time you buggered off to annoy some French people?

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It all looks OK but when I give it an extra bit of a wiggle and thrust it seems to settle it, but I am not happy with the connection really. It should be easy to do. Waiting for the smart arses to comment as usual.............

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While we're on the subject of water supply and what have you, could anyone explain the benefits of having a built-in fresh water tank with an external filling point like the one I'm guessing Deeps has?

I ask this out of rank ignorance rather than anything else, because I can't actually see that there are any advantages to it over, say, an Aquaroll.

Clearly it's undesirable to tow with water which weighs a kilo a litre sloshing around in the tank from both a weight distribution and a payload perspective, which presumably means having to fill it up every time you pitch camp.

And as Martin says above, the tank's physical size is bound to eat into storage capacity, isn't it?

How do you fill it up? I'm guessing you have to make umpteen trips back and forth with a watering can since you can't hold the caravan under the tap and neither can you use a decent-sized plastic jerrycan-type thing unless you happen to be built like Geoff Capes or Vanessa Feltz.

I'm genuinely interested to know.

Pros? Cons? What's da haps?

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20L fresh water tank came as standard on our Triton 430 so not sure as to whether it's an optional extra or not. We only fill it when remaining on site for an extended period of time but for weekend trips away etc make do with a 5L fuel can (new of course) that we use to transport water. It was actually cheaper than a watering can hence the choice.
Having water onboard we find convenient for filling up the old kettle, brushing teeth, washing hands or anything else where a small amount of H2O might come in handy. Yes, the tank does take up storage space as it's located in the front right-hand side bottom locker when looking from the front but there's still room enough for my boots and shoes etc (I don't lug so many about as my other half lol) so the loss of space is no real big deal. There's more than enough in the other spaces anyway.

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Quote: Deeps wrote in post #29

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Having water onboard we find convenient for filling up the old kettle, brushing teeth, washing hands or anything else where a small amount of H2O might come in handy.

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