2012 Casita Liberty Deluxe Travel Trailer Toilet Cleaning Danco Shower Blaster

Well, here's another problem that most everybody deals with while trailering and I'm sure there are plenty of solutions but this one works for us, so thought I'd "pass it" along. LOL 

Problem: Keeping the toilet clean after making a deposit, or going #2, is an age old problem. The trick is to do it without using a lot of paper, water and/or making a bigger mess, especially if one is dry camping and water is a precious commodity. Repeated or prolonged flushing is not a good thing. At first, I used toilet paper in the shape of a cone to cover the inside of the toilet in our boat and that worked. Continued to use this method in the trailer, but this method just added a lot of paper to the holding tank.

Solution: Then it dawned on me, as I was perusing my local DYI store, Grovers Electrical and Plumbing store, I noticed they had a shower blaster/cleaner with quick disconnect fittings. The blaster is made by Danco and comes with six or so feet hose (not really needed) a male fitting for trailer's shower hose and two female fittings...one for the original shower hand wand and one for the blaster. This is all predicated on the idea that you have a shower hose w/hand wand connected to a wash basin with a diverter...which our bathroom (head) has. If you are not busy using the blaster, as pictured, you can swap it out and plug in the shower wand. So Simple. The quality of the Danco blaster and connectors is excellent and blaster does a good job increasing the pressure of the water, for cleaning. Be sure to take your shower wand and/or complete hose assembly to plumbing store to make sure it all fits. No sense in wasting a trip.

Conclusion: I find this blaster does the trick with a minimum of water useage and doesn't fill the black water holding tank with unnecessary amounts of toilet paper.

Happy Camping - "Wichita"

2012 Casita 17' Liberty Deluxe Travel Trailer Screen Door Slider

Think I have a solution to a cracked/broken screen slider. Have looked on line and even ordered two sliders from RVPlus.com that said their slider would fit the Casita odd size 12"x11-7/8". They were only $7.50 so I ordered two. They were made of recycled milk bottle material, so were very sturdy. They were the dimensions that they said...12"x11-7/8", but they were not flat, so they have a big gap that allows bugs in. I guess they might fit some screens but not our Casita.

Problem. The orginal clear acrylic slider was very brittle and cracked the first time the wind caught the door. The manufacturer couldn't keep up with replacing them or didn't try or changed the design, so I think lots of people out there either have cracked sliders or are making something else "do".

Solution: Went to my local plastics store in Portland, Or., that sells plastic by the sheet...Tap Plastics Inc, on Sandy Blvd. Tap Plastics stores are located throughout Washington, Oregon, and California. They cut me a piece of black ABS plastic (they also have white) 12"x11-7/8"x1/16. Had to square it off a tiny bit with a rasp, but it only cost me $1.85. Well, actually, there was a bit of extra cost, as I put a round wood drawer knob on the inside and used a piece of 1/2"x6"x1/2" "seaboard" I had left over from another project, as a stiffener on the inside...and 3 screws and fender washers. Oh, don't forget the cost of gas to/from...1 or 2 gallons. So, maybe I have $11.50 into it...and it works...and it's
durable.
After two years of "Happy Camping", this is the only thing on the trailer that has given us a problem. Loving my Casita.
Happy Trailering - Wichita

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