How do you top up the water in your motorhome? Do you use a hose or a jug? We find it very convenient to use a hose. You can fill the entire water tank quite quickly and avoid running back and forth. Here are our top tips for filling water in your campervan!
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We bring our own water hose and several different nozzles. Having your own water hose is good to make sure you don't get bacteria in the campervan's water tank from other hoses.
Campsites and caravan parks often have a hose that you can use, but how do you know how people before you have used it? If someone rinses the toilet tank, a single bacterium is enough to make you sick ... huh! This alone is reason enough to always have your own fresh water hose!
Having different nozzles is good because you always have something that fits, no matter what the tap looks like. There are many different variants of taps, so to speak. The nozzles are not big, expensive or heavy, so there is absolutely no reason not to have them in your motorhome!
Filling your campervan with water - where?
In Sweden, you can fill up drinking water at all petrol stations. You can also fill up when you are camping, and also at many caravan sites. Abroad, it is not always as easy at petrol stations, but it is of course possible at campsites and often at caravan parks.
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Kersti says:
hello
How nice to read about you today in Caravan and Camping.
Very nice report. And yes... we fill water with hose
Take care
22 April 2010 - 20:15
admin says:
Wow, has it arrived already? Good to hear! We haven't seen the report ourselves yet....
If you subscribe, you get the magazine a little earlier, I don't think it's in the shops yet...
22 April 2010 - 20:23
Ninni says:
Nowadays there is a hose and nozzle in Rulla-Bärra - as we learnt in Germany that you should have your own hose.
It's a bit of a hassle to fill with a jug, I think. Bring on the hose! ;-))
23 April 2010 - 6:22
Ama de casa says:
Can? Are there people who fill up like that? Seems extremely complicated...
I get water in a water bottle - there's no tank in the tent 😉.
23 April 2010 - 19:26
admin says:
Ama de casa, haha, well, pointing a water hose straight into the tent is probably NOT a good idea....
23 April 2010 - 21:08
Nils-Åke says:
Yes, the hose has become longer and longer every year. And a whole set of connectors.
I remember in Mora a few years ago, there were Dutch people refuelling water from a toilet bowl.
He looked like he had taken a shower when he finished and no one could enter that space for a long time.
You gain experience and an eye for where you can refuel water. I always start my journey by refuelling at home. I am very careful to stay away from toilets.
26 April 2010 - 11:19
admin says:
Nils-Åke, yes, you do acquire some practical equipment over the years... Funny story with the Dutchman!
We would also like to fill up with water at home before we leave, but that's not possible when you live in an apartment and have your motorhome in a car park in another municipality... However, we usually try to start by filling up with water at a petrol station.
26 April 2010 - 19:01