TonyBuckley
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Brighton Marina is removing all its pontoon hoses tomorrow (or so they say).
Do you use a food grade hose for filling from pontoon taps?
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savageseadog
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Carbon filters won't get rid of the extremely dangerous organo-metallic plasticisers leached from non food grade plastics
Robin
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the contact would have to be extremely prolonged to leach out anything. daft thing is many will buy water in plastic bottles and that water could have been bottled a year or more earlier and stored under what conditions I wonder. My philosophy is to use a trusted hose, usually my own and wash the boat down completely first off to get any stale/stagnant water in the marina pipework out and away before filling the on board tanks. I don't drink water per se unless first boiled in the process of filter coffee or tea making.
Paranoia rules OK?
Robin
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For those that use puritabs or similar, I am reminded that years back when we had a fitted flexible tank in the bow of our then W33, it suffered multiple minor slow leaks, caused I was told by the makers by my using Puriclens tablets that 'pinholed the material where they lay in contact with it. I finally gave up and had a proper fitted stainless steel tank made. The original Westerly bow tank was S/S but Failed on the welds at about 12 years old.
rotrax
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For the past several years I have added a " splosh " of babies sterilising fluid to each tank prior to filling.
It used to be Milton, but the last two were from the pound shop-twice the ammount for half the money-and appears to be the same stuff according to the ingredients list.
The water going in from the hose seems to mix it up well.
As a warning-the hose on our current pontoon was green inside. I noticed this when trimmed the end to fit our snap fittings.
I try to use our own food grade hose where possible.
We do drink the water from our tanks, no adverse effects after more than ten years.
It used to be Milton, but the last two were from the pound shop-twice the ammount for half the money-and appears to be the same stuff according to the ingredients list.
The water going in from the hose seems to mix it up well.
As a warning-the hose on our current pontoon was green inside. I noticed this when trimmed the end to fit our snap fittings.
I try to use our own food grade hose where possible.
We do drink the water from our tanks, no adverse effects after more than ten years.
Momac
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Which demonstrates the hazards of using a pontoon hose . Not to mention a hose left on a tap seems attractive to dogs as a pee post .
I only use sterilising fluid once a year – in the spring when we are refilling the tank after the winter recess. Just tip the whole bottle of sterilising liquid in ad fill up with water , pull it through the pipes and leave to do its work.
Flushing with fresh water is the longest part as it takes at least a whole tank of fresh to remove the slight chlorine aroma .