Filling Up With Water?

marrwyck

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Hi everyone, we do have a few questions to ask, here's the 1st.

We have a 110ltr fresh water tank. I also carry 4 x 10 ltr containers as I see that filling up with water could be our main problem when travelling.

So how do most of you get on with filling up your water tank?
Do you find most garages with car washes that have an outside tap are accommodating or do any of you fill up from fresh rivers using a filter etc?

Where do most of you wild campers simply get your water from?

Best wishes from Martin & Sonia :)
 
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Hi Martin & Sonia We can be in any country in the world and the first thing we look for is the grave yard, Never a problem and always a tap and we even look the part with our watering cans. Good Luck Bob.:D:D


PS we go to Holland and Denmark on thursday not been before but I dare say the grave yards are just the same! cant wait Im dying to see.LOL.
 
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Ask at a garage before you fill up with fuel,if they cant/wont let you have fresh water find a garage that will.
As the last poster said graveyards are almost a dead !!!! certainty
If traveling in Spain almost every village has a fresh water pump/tap/well, just look for the sign saying font.
 
Hi everyone, we do have a few questions to ask, here's the 1st.

Where do most of you wild campers simply get your water from?

Best wishes from Martin & Sonia :)

OK heres my "secret" so don't tell any-one
use this only if your stuck
drive into a non c&cc site,
both go to reception
then say "you sign in dear, while I fill up with water"
when you return with a tank-full of fresh water
your wife informs you its not c&cc site
so you cant stay here
so off you pop with your tank filled.
but that aside, Ive always found filling stations very accommodating
 
Water and Elsan

The same applies to water as well as 'elsan' points on the canals and navigable rivers, loads of places. The maps at information points along the canals which the water areas are normally quite accessable from the road.
 
Hi thanks to you all for your replies on this subject.

We both cracked up reading about the grave yards & the Dead certain bit.

We did ask at Shell Bere Regis if we could fill up with water & we could, tap by car wash.
As previous poster said " if they ain't gonna let you fill up, get fuel elsewhere"

Anyway thanks for info & if anyone has a list of UK graveyards or Elsans we would love it, lol :)
 
Tip

Can I suggest that you carry a little adjustable spanner or pliers. Some water taps have the 'turning handle' taken off so that people cannot use them. If you have a adjustable spanner or spare top, the water is yours. We also carry a choice of tap fittings so that we can use to rollup hose pipe!

In Ireland we used garages, a tourist info office, even a national trust shop's tap. But the wife wouldn't let me use the taps on port sides incase it wasn't fresh water. I suggested that she try drinking it first but she wasn't having any of that!

Jon
 
Sorry to use the swear word, but when touring we use a 'campsite' every 2 or 3 nights, you can empty the loo, recharge all those razors, torches, laptops etc, fill up with water and use a FULL SIZE shower... bliss!!
 
With the C&CC you can roll in pay a fiver dump your grey and black waste fill up with water and have a shower and be gone.:D
Mind you, still havent recharged the electrical bits have you.:(

I dont have that problem.:D

Don
 
Thxs for all your tips & tricks.

I now have the neccessary tools, pliers, adjustable spanner, wrench etc.
We are members of C&CC but MHS's seem few & far between down South. Not worried about charging batteries as we have a 3000w generator which I use when no one is about :)
 
Never thought about grave yards, but will now.

Would you add an (cannot think of the thing - the ones that sanitise the water ) every time or just empty and refill again.
 
Kriss63;35724]Never thought about grave yards, but will now.

Would you add an (cannot think of the thing - the ones that sanitise the water )
Do you mean a sterilizing tablet
 
If you have a adjustable spanner or spare top, the water is yours

On the same basis carry a lock pick, pry-bar or even a half-brick and pretty much anything can be "yours".
 
lol lol thats them....... do you use them every time you fill the water tank...
 
Getting water in continetal Europe is a breeze, the UK is a lot harder.

We filled the tank with whatever was flowing at the time - tap, stream, river, waterfall, village pump, roadside water trough, spring. Definitely not for drinking though.

We had a plastic watering can of about 15 litres capacity. Hose with various fittings including a home made funnel (5 litre water bottle) for sticking into a stream or waterfall.

Drinking water was always the bought variety, although in Norway I did drink mountain water until I saw the amount of urine a reindeer passes in one sitting, back to bottled water.

The UK was never easy, even after filling up with derv. a few service stations got snotty about water. Getting rid of the toilet was hard, as well as just plain rubbish - where have all the bins gone. We noticed that laybys with bins were reasonably clean, the ones without bins were just like a council tip.
 
When driving home on Wednesday I saw a motorhome pulled up on the pavement outside the main Ilfracombe cemetery Visiting a grave or filling up with water?........... Anyone we know?
 
Water queries.

We have a 60 gallon tank that we have only used for washing, showering etc for the last 4 years. We have several small water containers we use for drinking and cooking. I have often gone into sites and said I am broken down and need water for the radiator, never been refused. Now 2 questions.
What is the best way to clean the tank so we can use the water? I am intending to fit an inline filter.
We have been going to France for nearly 20 years and have never used their tap water. Always bought from supermarkets. I am told it is safe; but why is there an aisle in the supermarkets that has nothing but water on display? What is your opinion? With the rising cost of diesel we are trying to be as economical as possible.
PeterP
 
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Hi nedrawnep,
I can answer the qustion on the best way to clean the tank but not the other one.
You use sterilizing tablets the ones you use for the sterilizing of baby bottles
Fill your tank add the tablets go for a drive to mix it up and run taps to to clean pipes then rinse the tank out and bobs your uncle done.:)
 
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