Our travel trailer came with the typical, not very good, holding tank monitor system.

RV manufacturers install holding tank monitor systems, built by a handful of different vendors, but most don’t work well.

With ours, the Fresh Water Tank was always accurate, the Grey Water usually okay, and the Black Water tank very hit and miss. Normally, I could guess how much was in the Black Tank, by comparing the fresh water remaining, versus the level of the grey.

Given we often camp for a couple of weeks at a time in remote places, it is important for us to know how much water we have, and how much waste water is in the Black and the Grey Water tanks. If one gets full, and we are not ready to go home, we might have to drive 100 miles to find a sanitary dump station.

Anyway the Fresh Water readings went bonkers on our monitor panel. Time to diagnose.

But first, a conversation about RV maintenance. Continue reading RV Maintenance: Holding Tank Monitor Replacement →

At 29 years and 6 months one of my Zip Dee Folding Camping Chairs had a fabric (actually a seam) failure. What a bummer! A few years ago I posted this review of the chair.  I figured the second chair might suffer the same demise. It was decision time.

I could buy a couple new Zip Dee chairs for $160 each. Given a 30 year life expectancy, based on the current chairs, that would be a dollar cost average of $5.33 per year. Keep in mind my two chairs have seen thousands of days in use.

Or I could buy a different brand of chair, which probably wouldn’t last as long, and wouldn’t fold down as compactly.

Or?

Continue reading RV Maintenance: Zip Dee Chair Fabric Replacement →