How To Setup RV Water The Right Way!

Today I wanted to share the proper way to connect the water to your RV. With the 3 or 4 items before the water gets to your RV like the filter, pressure regulator, hose and often a splitter, today I give you the information so you can set it up the right way for your situation and your equipment.

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[cherimelton]

I always put the filter last because there can be "stuff/mold" in the hose and I want to filter that before it goes into the rig. Great video Jared!

[hookin]

Good information. Don't forget to get a bag of extra hose washers.

[MonacoMike]

I also spray the campground connection with Lysol before I connect anything. I've actually seen someone stick their sewar hose over the spigot to flush out their sewar hose. I also give a short burst of water out of the spigot .

[RVTIPSANDTRAVELS]

EXCELLENT video Jared, one thing I would like to add for those using external tank rinsers... install a check valve/vacuum breaker as the first piece of the water connection. its fine to add more vacuum breakers along the line somwhere, but this vacuum breaker connected directly to the water pedestal is, in many cases, going to be higher than where its installed on the tank rinser (rhino blaster, flush king). Vacuum breakers should be about 12" above the rest of the water system to work best. as always, another super informative video Jared!

[jackpritchard]

Worth adding is a pressure regulator on the black tank flush line. When we first used our trailer, I hooked it up directly as several here have described. About the third trip, it blew off a fitting between the hookup and spray nozzles, filling the underbelly with water. Repair time! Since then my flush hose has a pressure regulator and backflow preventer.

[mstewpie]

I saw your suggestion for rinsing out the hose before use, I usually will rinse before putting it away, and after rinsing, I will loop up the hose, and then connect both ends together, sealing the hose closed. My preference. I also cap my filter on both ends.

[peterkunka]

Warm weather; pressure regulator, filter, hose. Cold weather; fill fresh tank mid-day with warm weather hook-up method, and then keep tank warm with heaters and use on-board water pump. No freezing outside hose connections this way. Cheers! Pete in Arizona - KI7LIL

[jkyner]

You provided some good tips, some I intend to use.
I would like to share some of my ideas:
Depending on your RV, in my case, the city water connection is on the RV bulkhead outside compartments, so I add an 90 degree elbow at that connection to relieve any weight of a filter or other equipment.
I add a "Y" gate with cutoff valves to the source. This allows me to add additional hoses without interrupting water to flow to the coach.
The last thing is I do (when breaking down) is to empty the water hoses, then connect the ends together to keep out any unwanted dirt, bugs, etc from getting in to them.

[berthaduniverse]

Great episode. We rarely connect to "city" water, so this is a great reminder (if you only do it every few years).

[raisingwildberrys]

Outside of high pressure water parks we prefer to put the filter then the regulator. Reason being we have a tankless water heater and it is flow/pressure sensitive so we prefer to adjust the regulator after the filter. Great video!

[twodogsandtheirfamily]

We love having our filters and regulator built in to our RV. Best additions we made. Just have to hook up a hose, and that's rated for over 100 psi.

[tksleeper]

We run a 3 filter system and the last filter is like 0.2 micron. I have seen some flow degradation however the fix when you have high water pressure is to put the regulator last. I can run 60 psi through my filter system... and we run 45 into the coach. It helps a lot. Great video.

[andreasimpson]

Thank you so much for this video!! We live fulltime in our RV in Florida so we're in warm weather. This video taught me about: (1) the water pressure gage (I'm going to buy one); (2) to replace my Y hose splitter that has the on/off knows with a splitter without knobs; (3) how to use the water pressure gage with the gage you can regulate.
Thank you so much

[TomSpurlock]

TIP. Using the 6" white extension hose with yellow screw-on is handy. I never throw those away. It's much easier to leave one of those extensions attached to the regulator, making it much easier and quicker to screw the regulator to the faucet. It provides better grip with the little knobs, and more room for your hands to work at screwing it on, versus screwing the regulator directly onto the faucet. Try it, you'll like it.

[LowGuppy]

Highly recommend a flexible hose stem ahead of the regulator, I had one sheer off in high winds overnight and didn't notice until morning when I had no water and there was a BIG puddle

[brittse]

I have a wonky water situation at my new long term spot and haven't been able to figure out the connection setup to benefit pressure and 3 connection off 1 until this video! Thank you 👍

[jamescox]

Best advice is turn on the water slowly at first or you’ll blow up you back flow preventer and if that happens you’ll get water filling your tank and overflowing. The part in the water pump is plastic with a very cheap spring. I went thru 3 water pumps before I got excellent advise

[Marlene-zdxm]

Thank you for the detailed explanations and extra thoughts about why things work or don’t work. Your insight provides valuable ideas for newbs like me! Appreciate your work! Subscribed!

[johnturner]

We generally camp in more moderate to warm/hot temps, so I hookup a y-splitter them one one side my regulator then my filter then my hose to the RV. On the other side a misc hose w/sprayer for just spraying things off. I had one of those adjustable regulators and usually set it for 50-55 PSI, but I left it at some site so now I am using one of those preset inline models. I hope to rectify this at a later date. I do like the idea of the guage assembly to simply check the pressure, I will have to put one together. I think I have all the parts needed!

[BradAllen]

I've had pretty good success with having a spigot with four outlets and quick connects. I have one outlet with just the black hose connected, one outlet with just a water pressure gauge, one outlet going to my fresh water hose, and one outlet open for miscellaneous such as washing your hands or anything else you may need.