Filling Water Tank In Down/Folded/Closed Position AND Filling HOT WATER HEATER

Here is an easy way to fill your 20 gallon water tank AND 6 gallon water heater AND all the pipes.
This uses the two drains by the water tank as Inputs!
Boondock with maximum water! This should also work for flushing the tanks or sterializing.

FIRST: ( to repeat and summarize previous threads)
Cut your small overflow hose near the wall (it's part of the fill port). (Leave large fill tube untouched.)
Plug it at the wall so anyone filling at the fill port can't splash into TM.
Now run the cut overflow hose down thru the floor - the other end comes out of the top of the tank.
You may have to extend it or replace with a longer tube.
(My TM has a big hole in floor for drain tubes and the extra space is filled with putty?).

Outside - attach a female garden hose part to tank drain under TM.
This tube goes from bottom of tank thru floor and hangs under TM with a valve at the end.
This is also called the low pressure drain.

Look at Bill's plumbing system schematic: http://www.trailmanorowners.com/foru...1&d=1264621902

See Also for pictures and more details:
...... Filling fresh water tank w TM closed http://www.trailmanorowners.com/foru...ead.php?t=7484
...... How to fill water tank with TM folded http://www.trailmanorowners.com/foru...ead.php?t=4568
...... Filling Water Tank In Down Position http://www.trailmanorowners.com/foru...ead.php?t=8471


SECOND:
Now for the NEW IDEA - (maybe some else thought of it - but I couldn't find it.)

Attach another female garden hose part to high pressure drain under the valve. (It is the tube hanging down near low pressure drain.)

DONE!

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To Fill : (note that your TM can now be down/closed/folded to do this.)
Connect garden hose to first drain - fill until overflow runs out bottom of trailer. Water tank is now full.
Connect garden hose to second drain - open the other two drains under back of trailer - turn on the house water
- shut off cold water drain when it starts running
- shut off hot water drain when it start running.
- Hot water tank and pipes are now full!

To Sterilize:
Empty the garden hose - pour chlorine into hose - attach to TM and your house.
Ditto above section "To Fill"
If you can go for a drive this would slosh and clean the inside top of the tank.
Open and empty all four drains. Close. Jump back up to section "To Fill"

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ps. I guess this mod is still theory because my TM is 1000 miles away but next month I'll be back doing this modification.
pps. Regarding the sterilizing section - you will have to open TM and run all faucets if you want them also sterilized.