A Downside Day

Everything has its downside, we all know. Today we had planned an outing to a neighboring town, but instead had to wait around for the mobile RV service van.

We've been having water seeping around the base of the toilet, a Dometic SeaLand 110. Chuck, the RV tech, and his team stopped by a couple days ago when Jan and I were unable to stop the leak ourselves. We needed a new valve kit and seal, which they had to order. Meanwhile, they tightened it up. It would only be 2 days to have the part.

Then, last night, I noticed the leak had accelerated. I had visions of the leak bursting into full stream and discharging massive amounts of water, so we took the precaution of shutting off the water supply to the trailer. Then, each time we needed to use the water, we turned on the pump and used water from the onboard supply, then turned it off again. (A precaution I recommend if you have any plumbing acting up in your rig.) We went to Soup Supper and Lenten Service last night at church, and I did not want to come home to a disaster, nor wake up to one in the morning.

Today the techs, apparently a family business with an OJT son, came with the parts. We learned that our toilet was about the bottom of the line--Dometic makes much better ones. I think this one must be manufactured just for the RV manufacturing industry, as it isn't even listed on their public website. Why am I not surprised? Chuck suggested we think about buying a better one, which we will, but right now we just want this one fixed as this is the month we paid truck insurance, trailer insurance, registration for both, heating for January (the coldest month of the year), and a couple other things.

It came to $140. In our house, we put in a brand new toilet for less. That's one of the downside parts of RV living. We will get a better toilet, and Jan is confident he can install it himself, when the time comes. I just hope it can wait a couple years.  There are quite a few things higher on my want list.

It's always something, isn't it?