The bad: At roughly $60 to $75, the valve is a bit pricey. The device also features a back check valve so anything coming out of your tanks can’t go back up the water supply line and into the park’s water supply system.
Plus, the valve is transparent, so you can see what comes out of your tanks. The good: The backflush valve can fill a 45-gallon holding tank in about four and a half minutes - roughly six times faster than you can by using your onboard rinse system - at typical RV park water pressure. We use Valterra’s Flush King Back Flush Valve, a wonderful piece of technology that forces water back up into each of your holding tanks at a fantastic rate and with real power to clean and flush your tanks. In fact, it’s our final step in performing our tank cleaning service. This is our favorite way to get BOTH your black and gray tanks clean. We’ve read reports that addressing leaks may be an ongoing concern (especially at first) and some users really hesitated to work on their black tank considering what is likely lurking inside. The bad: Depending on the layout of your tanks, whether there is a belly pan you may have to remove, and your comfort level with installing an unfamiliar system like this, this may not be a great option. They are fairly inexpensive and better than not having any other option. The good: These do a pretty good job of pushing waste out of your holding tanks. Intended to be mounted to the side of your holding tank (even the gray ones!) and pointed at the opening out to the sewer drain pipe, this attachment is yet another way to introduce fairly high-pressure water into your tanks to push out debris and solids. There are also some aftermarket flushing options like the Camco Quickie Flush. You may not be able to reach the tank from inside the toilet in a lot of cases. Who knows what’s on the end of that flush wand but we wouldn’t want it inside our RV! Finally, some RVs (like larger fifth wheels) have fairly lengthy drops and bends (fifth wheels and smaller travel trailers) between their toilet pipe and the black tank. Next, once you’re done, you’re carrying around in your RV something that has been down into or near your black tank. That might mean a garden hose through an open window, snaking through a door and into your RV until you reach your bathroom, or using something like a Water Thief to capture water from a bathroom sink tap. First, you’ve got to get a water supply hose connected to one end of this contraption. Applying some rinsing action from the “business” end of your holding tanks (especially the black tank via the toilet) can be beneficial to keeping your holding tanks cleaner. The good: Yes, this is better than not having anything. There are a couple of versions - some with just a straight pipe and others that have a flexible length of hose on them. This wand, when connected to your garden hose, can be placed down your RV’s toilet and give a secondary rinse to the tank to knock down any difficult-to-remove solids.
QUICKY FLUSH MANUAL
Some RVers have asked us about manual black tank cleaning tools, such as a rinsing wand with a high-pressure head. While automatic black tank flushing may be a necessary thing to do, it likely won’t be enough. The water is sprayed in all directions inside the tank. Connect a hose to this inlet, turn the water on and let the system do its work.
Near your black tank, there should be a small valve that connects to a city water source, such as a garden hose.
Many trailers have automatic black tank flushing systems, as do most motorhomes. So let’s take a look into what you likely have in your black tank, what some alternatives are, and why that system is probably not doing as good of a job as you think it is. Their black tank, that is: Currently there is no RV manufacturer that includes a flushing or rinsing system as standard in their gray tanks. If we had a dime for every time we heard this, well, we’d no longer need to do tank cleanings! Almost every modern RV has some sort of flushing or rinsing system built into their tank. “I use my tank’s flush system and it gets my tanks spotlessly clean!”
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