Hmm, water not running to washer or toilet sprayer - RV-Dreams Community Forum

suse1023 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hmm, water not running to washer or toilet sprayer

cheryls-other-half · RV-Dreams Family Member

I'm not one to really offer advice, but...

quick ideas off top of my head, without much other brain matter there...

a) if the toilet sprayer isn't working, is the TOILET working?

a1) is the kitchen sink working?

b) is the shower/sink working?

c) (Department of dumb questions department): Are you using CITY water, or your fresh water tank AND

if Fresh water tank, IS your water pump ON?

if using CITY water, are you CONNECTED to city water and ARE your VALVES open???

Is it possible that JUST the hot water to the washer isn't working, or JUST the cold water?

(that would indicate the water heater is somehow involved...)

Did you or ANYONE do ANY work on the rig in the last XXX days?

was it water related?

if you look under your rig there will be a series of tubing coming from your fresh water tank

It usually has labels , and should say (kitchen sink, kitchen hot, bathroom cold, bathroom hot, toilet, etc.

See if any of THOSE valves are in a different direction.

WARNING: Before throwing the valves, (one at a time, then checking)

MAKE sure you take a picture of the valves so you know how they were BEFORE you started mucking around.

THAT way you can at least revert to the way it WAS!!

I'd suggest using this a basic check list to start.

Hope it made sense.

rv-vagabond · RV-Dreams Community Member

I understand you have a Carriage Cameo. You might try the Carriage forum: www.carriage-lifestyle-owners.com/portal.php

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Susan,

In one part of his post, Mitch was referring to a "water manifold" that allows one to turn off the water to certain areas of the trailer, and many times one can turn of specific valves. If your RV has one of those in the basement/underbelly, I would imagine that most of the labeled valves should be turned the same direction as all the others. If some aren't, then see how those are labeled as to whether it is where your problem is located.

Like Mitch said, if the toilet sprayer doesn't work but the toilet does, you have a different issue, probably with the valve at the toilet.

Terry

LandYachty · RV-Dreams Family Member

I just had to rebuild the head (easier than I thought). Go to the manufacturers website and they should have a view of all the parts and pieces. This is possibly a value, if the toilet works then they sprayer has water going to it also. Are the valves turned on back of the washer?
Best place for parts is EBAY or Amazon. FWIW

suse1023 · RV-Dreams Family Member

So far the water is working just fine everywhere else, thank goodness.
However there is no valve behind or anywhere on the toilet that I can find.
I'm calling for repair in the morning, and will chalk it up to another pricey lesson.
Thanks for your suggestions, they got me to take a good luck at the water system.

suse1023 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Ouch, my wallet!!
The good news is the repairman solved the water issue very quickly. Turns out someone (probably my cousin when she visited) stopped the machine mid cycle during it's last cycle and it just needed to be reset. All is working as it should and I can get caught up on laundry now--yay!
As for the spray in the commode, with this new toilet one has to flush the toilet to get the water to run to the spray, and that's in good shape too.

It was worth the service call, and I wont soon forget what I learned today.

Barbaraok · RV-Dreams Family Member

Sometimes the best money you can spend is to hire a mobile tech to come out and go through all of the systems with you as you tape so that you can learn (and have a record of) what each switch does, where the valves are, etc. Especially if you didn't get a good PDI, this could save you time/money/headaches down the line.

Barb