Waste tanks?

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Waste tanks?

Postby Suwannee Dave » Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:30 am

I want to install grey water and black water tanks. Are these normally hung beneath the floor between the cross supports?
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Re: Waste tanks?

Postby jwhite » Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:16 pm

I was wanting to put in a RV toilet and do away with the portable toilet because I hated to dump and clean it, I was thinking about putting some type tank under the trailer = but it would have had to be jackleged to make it fit.
I had never thought about it but another member suggested putting the tank inside and build a box so the toilet would be on top and then put some type drain through the floor.
So I thought I would do something similar and use the portable toilet I had so I cut a hole in the bottom and attached a drain and put a pvc pipe and cap.
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For now this works for me it solved the problem of dumping the portable toilet, I just uncap it and take a water hose inside and flush it.
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Re: Waste tanks?

Postby hankaye » Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:22 pm

Howdy All;

Might want to consider one of these, they come in various sizes,
depending on how long or how many will be using it.

http://www.amazon.com/Barker-Manufactur ... aste+tanks

only a suggestion, you could plumb somethig like was posted already to get the subject matter
out of the living area.

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Re: Waste tanks?

Postby roadinspector » Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:59 pm

Suwannee Dave wrote:I want to install grey water and black water tanks. Are these normally hung beneath the floor between the cross supports?


Suwannee Dave,
Yes, conventional RVs are mounted under the trailer between the frame rails. The beauty of doing your own CT is you can mount it where and how you want. There is a CT here that does have the black tank mounted inside. It is inside a box that the toilet sits on. This solved trying to figure out a mount system under the CT and got the toilet up to a height of a regular toilet too. Grey tanks vary from the sink draining directly into buckets, water jugs to just about whatever container the imagination can come up with that will hold liquid.

Use your imagination to fit your situation and plz share your ideas! We are always looking for new ideas!! :twisted:

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Re: Waste tanks?

Postby Suwannee Dave » Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:15 pm

roadinspector wrote:Use your imagination to fit your situation and plz share your ideas! We are always looking for new ideas!! :twisted:

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If I decide to go ahead with the project I will definitely document it on the forum. My wife thinks we should just buy a travel trailer but I have not found a good combination of layout, cost and construction and materials quality.
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Re: Waste tanks?

Postby roadinspector » Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:48 pm

Suwannee Dave wrote:I have not found a good combination of layout, cost and construction and materials quality.


Good luck on your search. I got out of a TT and was searching for the same until I finally gave up for the reasons you stated. We were content being back in a tent because I did not want to throw my money away again on a TT. We were needing a toyhauler but all I found were the same but were also way overpriced & oversized. At a rally I saw a dealer that was selling custom built CT toyhaulers. The sleeping quarters were not to my liking but I did like their main layout. That diverted my 100% attention to a CT conversion. I decided to build my own. I was already in the design stage before I ran into this forum. Thanks to many here on this forum, with their help and ideas, I am in the middle of my project and very glad I have gone this way. If there are faults in my build, they are mine. I built it, I can fix it.

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