Re: Flo-Jet pump

ElAlumbrado wrote:

Seems like it might be "safer" to leave the pump off until you need it, no? Leaving it on may cause a mess if some plastic fitting breaks when you're not around to notice it (ask me about an incident 20 years ago that taught me to keep our pump "off" unless we were using the water). Doesn't take much to flip a switch when you need water.

El Alumbrado
"Civis Texanus Sum"


It would probably be "safer" to turn the water off in a fixed house, as well, but I don't know anybody who does it. Why the hell would someone buy an RV with "all the comforts of home", and then circumvent them. I wouldn't buy an RV with a water system I didn't trust. We've always left the pump on in all 4 of the RV's we've owned. Never once have I regretted it. We have hot and cold running water. I planned it that way.

As for switching the pump on and off, we have water in 5 different places, and a switch in ONE place. I like running water.

Lon
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