Filling up with water

[Larkrise]

I would appreciate advice for filling up with water, especially when away from home. Do folks carry a hose and fittings, or use the Brandrup product, or something else?

 

[calicasas]

We use the Brandrup product. We limit this to the 10L container because we have found that you can sometimes be far from a tap and carrying a container greater than 10L can be a pain. It also affords us some 'emergency' water in case we are on the road and find that we run out - We always have the 10L container in the boot.
Friends of ours take one of the flat hoses (which packs away neatly) and a whole list of adapters which they have accumulated as this assures them connection when they are on the continent.
I guess an ideal balance might be to carry both if you have the room...

 

[gatvol]

I use a hose and a rubber cone adaptor that means that it fits over most taps. A brandrup or collapsible bottle type arrangement is obviously the belt and braces route, but I have never had any problems with the hose as I always stay at campsites.

 

[GrannyJen]

I always use bottled water to drink, sorry, just a bit wary of taps parked in the middle of campsites, or worse, next to the Chemical waste disposal point. :cry:

As the comment made above I also carry a small length of hose with a cone adaptor.

Leave home with a full tank and lots of 2 litre bottles of water, Half way around and I either have the tank kept full via the hose or use an empty water bottle to top up the tank with. I only use tank water for washing, either myself, dishes or dirty clothes so it does not get used up quickly, especially if I am staying on camp sites that provide bathrooms, showers washing up facilities.

2 litre top-ups can be a bit of a fiddly pain but only really necessary for when I cannot get the van close to a water tap. Not a problem right now, there is one right next to me (parked up on a site just outside Llanelli. Granny's gone camping again)....

 

[BerndRos]

Well......

On my travels I carried the Brandup kit but also a 5litre bottle and a funnel.......

The tank was usually filled from village fountains, Mosques (yes they don't mind at all), odd taps found here and there...garage forecourts......but to drink it was bottled water

 

[briwy]

We use a £3 10L collapsible bottle with about a foot of garden hose duct taped to the nozzle.
Works well for us and squashes down flat so doesn't take up much space.

 

[Larkrise]

Many thanks everyone...good and useful advice as always.