Topic: Faucet water is foamy after de-wintering (Read 3122 times) previous topic - next topic

Just de winterized my Unity and water is super foamy. There is no pick color in the water. Put new water filter under bathroom sink. Made sure everything is tightened. Can’t find any leaks either.
Any suggestions

From the above I assume the RV was winterized by ingesting RV antifreeze into the fresh water tank. If you do that you should flush the tank (and the entire fresh water system) multiple times before using the water. There will always be a small amount of the old water left in the tank. Be sure to also flush out the other water lines. The foaming will eventually be depleted.

I follow the instructions and by pass hot water tank. I am assuming that when I de winterize antifreeze is push into fresh water tank. For future reference how do I prevent this?

In my 2021 user manual under Winterization, it shows two methods after the part about draining the water system.
Step 12 "At this point, you can continue the winterizing process by either adding plumbing anti-freeze to the system, or blowing out the airlines. See below for the process on each."
You only do one or the other method. They both are acceptable, but if you use the pink RV antifreeze, you need to carefully flush the water system with fresh street water, and repeatedly fill and flush the fresh water tank to get rid of any residual antifreeze. It is not poison but you shouldn't drink or cook with it unless you have thoroughly flush the tank and all the water lines.
I have a Truma water heater and you are correct that you need to bypass it when winterizing since the antifreeze can corrode the heater. BTW, there is no hot water tank with the Truma.

I don't see it in my manual, but it is a good idea when de-winterizing to ingest a small amount of diluted bleach into the tank, then proceed with the normal fill/flush. This both sanitizes the fresh water tank & lines, and kill any algae in the system. Again you want to repeatedly fill and flush the tank/lines since you don't want to be drinking it.

Ron,
Thank you for the information. Flushing water tank did the trick. I may just try blowing lines out next winter and not use antifreeze. Our winters are pretty cold in Upstate NY.
Mike

Does anyone have better directions on how to fix the Dometic 10-seriesRDM 10.5xt fridge doors that are out of alignment. The doors open both left to right and right to left. It is the fridge door not the freezer door. On one side the lever to open is jammed and do not want to force it and I have to left other side to close and seal the door
Read the manual or should say look at the tables 8,9, and 10. Can’t find a Utube fix it video either.
Tks
Mike

You can check and see if the little levers for the “winter position” are not seated right, that may be what’s jamming it up.  Or if you just can’t open one side, give the door a little nudge inwards on the other side, usually the bottom and listen for a click.  The hinge side sometimes doesn’t fully seat, and until it does you can’t open it the other way.  If those don’t work just call LTV and I bet they know!