I don't know what it is about me and my RV waste tanks, but we seem to have an ongoing love/hate relationship. I love it when I think I've got the hang of it, and hate it when I'm reminded of all the little ways that something can go wrong. I'm fervently hoping that I don't have to experience them all.
So I wasn't living in my RV anymore, but the time I spent in it after my less than stellar attempt to empty the black tank was enough to fill it back up. I was contemplating if I should just not worry about it until I took it on a trip where there would be a dump station. I didn't think I should leave it full that long. The only problem is, I don't have a dump station at my house.
That's not strictly true, I realized, when I noticed the septic clean-out pipe sticking out of my front yard. The pipe has a screw-on cap just like in the campgrounds, and runs right into my home's septic tank, so why could I not use it?
Had I thought this through, it would have been obvious why I could not use it. It wasn't so much the fact that it was a small septic tank, but more the fact that I didn't have enough sewer hose to reach the 30 ft. or so between the pipe and my paved driveway where the RV was parked. The only way I could do this was to move the pipe and the RV closer together. Obviously, I could not move the pipe.