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Originally Posted by smokeater
Anyone have any tips on how to get rid of the taste and smell in the water system from the coolant used to winterize the trailer? We use odorless, tasteless stuff we get from Campers World. The mfger winterized the trailer once and we have done it once since we've had it. (2014). We didn't seem to have a problem until this camping trip. It helps if we run the water a lot before we use it and we also use a brita filter. Kinda weird......
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Somewhere on the forum you will find instructions on the de-winterizing of the fresh water system. Basically, you're adding 1/4 cup of Clorox (brand name stuff works best) bleach to the fresh water tank for every 15 gallons of water. (Mine holds 60 gallons so I just toss in a generous full cup of bleach. Best to mix the bleach with a few gallons of water in a pail or something and then add that solution to the tank and top it off.) Then you run the water (using the pump) throughout the system until you're sure that every bit of piping that had antifreeze in it now has the bleach treated water.
If you do this in the spring, your water heater is drained and bypassed so you would not need to fill the heater tank with bleach water. Doing it now will require that you drain the hot water tank first and the fill it with the bleach water. Remember to shut off the breaker for the water heater as well as the control switch on the main panel.
Since your primary goal now is to remove the taste, let the bleach water sit in the pipes for several hours. Flush it with some bleach water and let it sit again for a few hours. When you flush, make sure you run each faucet and low point drain for a couple of minutes, one at a time, to insure that you've turned over all the water that was in the system.
Drain the fresh water tank, re-fill at least 1/4 and then pump fresh water throughout, same methodical process. The you can switch over to city water and flush a little more.
If you do this in the spring when you de-winterize, it should clear out the antifreeze odor and taste for the entire season. It also helps a lot to use the water system. De-winterizing and the letting the rig sit for a couple of months unused is not the best for clearing out odor and taste.