RV Water System

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Water is the thing that ends a boondocking stay. Not power, not internet. Water.

These four cover the whole system as we actually run it. Finding lead in our campground water is the one that changed how we think about a hookup, and the filter that went in afterwards. Sanitizing the fresh tank without bleach is the maintenance job nobody enjoys, done after eighteen months of putting it off.

Then the capacity question: how much was actually left after fifteen days off-grid, and the bladder we added so the answer stops being the reason we leave.

RV Maintenance

How to Sanitize an RV Fresh Water Tank (Bleach-Free, After 18 Months)

Published on Jul 25, 2026

We went eighteen months without sanitizing our fresh water tank. Here is the bleach-free method we finally used, step by step, and how little time it actually took.

RV Gear

There Was LEAD in Our Campground Water | Installing the Blu Tech AR3 RV Water Filter

Published on Jun 19, 2026

After a year and a half of full-timing with no real water filtration (and one campground with a lead warning taped to our door), we finally installed the Blu Tech AR3 three-stage filter on our Brinkley. Plus a midnight toilet flood we didn't plan on.

RV Gear

Don't Get Stranded Without Water! Testing Our New RV Bladder

Published on Jun 5, 2026

A week of boondocking at our first Hipcamp farm, and the water bladder we'd hauled around unopened for over a year finally earns its keep: 24 gallons siphoned into the fresh tank. The full 7 days off-grid? That part didn't survive contact with reality.

RV Life

15 Days Boondocking: How Much Water is Actually Left?

Published on Mar 21, 2025

Our fresh tank said empty, so we grabbed buckets and measured what was really in there. Plus a finicky tire pressure gadget, a siphon experiment, and packing up for a travel day at Dupuis.