The Flume - An RV Sewer Support Hose System
The Flume suspends the entire 21' of the DrainMaster Hose and bends in any direction.
Everybody knows that dealing with the black water hose on an RV is one of the most distasteful tasks there is. Many web pages and videos on YouTube have done a good job explaining the most efficient and sanitary ways for cleaning out the black water tank. So I am not going to bother with that. Nor am I going to deal with the various hoses that are available for connecting to the black water tank. There are millions of cheap hoses that you can buy almost anywhere. There is the standard useless one you will see everywhere commonly known as the Stinky Slinky. You can go a step higher to the Camco ones that you will see in Camping World, Walmart, and other places. I bought one called the RhinoFlex hose. It is a little sturdier and is collapsible, meaning it sort of stays together. But the man who designed the hose below told me that the Rhino was modeled after his design but with much less expensive materials.
The absolute best hose out there that I have seen thus far is the DrainMaster (Click Here) out of Holister, California. I have a Carriage Cameo 5th wheel. Carriage is now out of business, but when they were making their product, they put the DrainMaster system in their 5th wheels. Instead of using the bayonet locking system, which is what you will find almost exclusively at any store that sells RV products, DrainMaster uses the cam-loc system, a much better way to connect your hose. DrainMaster has now made an even better hose than they had before, and I recently purchased it from them. But this is not about the DrainMaster hose system or any other hose system. The perfect hose system has now been invented by DrainMaster. So there is no use to talk about that. You can choose any system you want. But the solution for the dreaded black water tank hose has been completed.
This is about the the other problem with the black water tank hose system. The supports for the hose. I have seen a lot of them, and I have tried some. Sometimes people just let the hose lay on the ground. Sometimes they prop them up with bricks and lumber. Sometimes they use gutter pipe. Sometimes they use a commercially made system, most of which fail miserably either because they are too short or too flimsy and cheaply made. One that I tried and found to be seriously wanting - but is advertised all over the Internet - is the Camco RV 15' Sidewinder Plastic Sewer Hose Support. If you leave it in the sun for a prolonged period of time, it will disintegrate and no longer stay together. I paid about $32 for this thing at Walmart. You will replace it soon.
The Flume works just as I imagined it would. You are free to copy it if you like or redesign it based on what you see. Initially I thought I might have something here to market, but as I got into it, I don't think so. Like many homemade concoctions we all do, it does the job. But it would take too long to make it and be too costly to be worthwhile for even a minimal profit. I call it THE FLUME. It will accommodate any length of hose (this one was made for a 21' hose), will keep your hose suspended completely off the ground, and is infinitely adjustable on any ground to various levels of terrain and over objects that are in your way so that things continuously slope down. It won't fall over or blow over, it wont rust, it won't deteriorate in the sun, and it will adjust to different angles or go in a straight line. It will also remain fixed when dumping the holding tanks. My DrainMaster hose is 21' long, but it folds up like an accordion into a 5' length. I made The Flume so that you can construct as many 5' sections as you need to get to any sewer outlet. It will adjust perfectly to any outlet if it is at least 3 '- 4' away. It will cost about $30 - $40 to construct, depending on whether you need three or four 5' sections.
The absolute best hose out there that I have seen thus far is the DrainMaster (Click Here) out of Holister, California. I have a Carriage Cameo 5th wheel. Carriage is now out of business, but when they were making their product, they put the DrainMaster system in their 5th wheels. Instead of using the bayonet locking system, which is what you will find almost exclusively at any store that sells RV products, DrainMaster uses the cam-loc system, a much better way to connect your hose. DrainMaster has now made an even better hose than they had before, and I recently purchased it from them. But this is not about the DrainMaster hose system or any other hose system. The perfect hose system has now been invented by DrainMaster. So there is no use to talk about that. You can choose any system you want. But the solution for the dreaded black water tank hose has been completed.
This is about the the other problem with the black water tank hose system. The supports for the hose. I have seen a lot of them, and I have tried some. Sometimes people just let the hose lay on the ground. Sometimes they prop them up with bricks and lumber. Sometimes they use gutter pipe. Sometimes they use a commercially made system, most of which fail miserably either because they are too short or too flimsy and cheaply made. One that I tried and found to be seriously wanting - but is advertised all over the Internet - is the Camco RV 15' Sidewinder Plastic Sewer Hose Support. If you leave it in the sun for a prolonged period of time, it will disintegrate and no longer stay together. I paid about $32 for this thing at Walmart. You will replace it soon.
The Flume works just as I imagined it would. You are free to copy it if you like or redesign it based on what you see. Initially I thought I might have something here to market, but as I got into it, I don't think so. Like many homemade concoctions we all do, it does the job. But it would take too long to make it and be too costly to be worthwhile for even a minimal profit. I call it THE FLUME. It will accommodate any length of hose (this one was made for a 21' hose), will keep your hose suspended completely off the ground, and is infinitely adjustable on any ground to various levels of terrain and over objects that are in your way so that things continuously slope down. It won't fall over or blow over, it wont rust, it won't deteriorate in the sun, and it will adjust to different angles or go in a straight line. It will also remain fixed when dumping the holding tanks. My DrainMaster hose is 21' long, but it folds up like an accordion into a 5' length. I made The Flume so that you can construct as many 5' sections as you need to get to any sewer outlet. It will adjust perfectly to any outlet if it is at least 3 '- 4' away. It will cost about $30 - $40 to construct, depending on whether you need three or four 5' sections.
The Flume turns and adjusts to any angle.
The Flume is height adjustable to any uneven terrain or objects on which it sits.
The Flume here suspends 15' of the DrainMaster Hose, which is partially collapsed since it is a 21' hose.
The Flume here supports just 10' of the 21' DrainMaster which is collapsed at the end.
Below just one section of The Flume supports a fully collapsed DrainMaster. The end of the hose will merely go into the cam-loc of the RV and the rest of the hose will lie on The Flume. If you need The Flume to be shorter, just push the end next to the sewer outlet on your rig further under your RV .