The Sewer Hose Has a Home

Monday, 6 February

Actually, the hose has had a custom-built home for a while, but I neglected to write a post at the time.

We were storing the sewer hose in a clear plastic bin with a lid, but it took up too much room in the basement.  Before that, we kept the hose in a trash bag in the sewer connection bay, but that was before Mickey’s cousins stopped by for an uninvited visit and built a home inside the hose.  Needless to say, they were evicted — home and all.

We looked at the usual storage options — you know the tubes sold at places like Camping World.  We even bought one and brought it back to the Phaeton only to find that we’d have to remove the collar from the hose if we wanted it to fit inside the tube.  Back to Camping World the tube went.

After surfing the web for ideas, I suggested to Mui that he build his own hose housing from a vinyl fence post sleeve.  After thinking about it, off he went to Home Depot to get a 4” x 4” x 8’ sleeve, a couple of end caps, a few shims to slightly elevate the sleeve, and some mounting brackets to keep it all in place.

A bit of sawing to shorten the sleeve; a bit of drilling to put ventilation holes in the end caps; a bit of screwdriver action to mount it all in place … et voilà — for a fraction of the cost of one of those tube things, we have something that meets our needs and fits nicely along one side of the small basement compartment adjacent to the sewer hook-up bay.  (The compartment in question is marked with blue lines in the photo to the right.)

I wasn’t with Mui when he went out to the coach to build the sewer hose housing, so I’m afraid the documentation of the project is a bit on the ‘lean’ side.

We saved money and the sewer hose is happy with its custom housing.

It’s good that Mui’s such a handyman!  I see many more Phaeton projects in his future :-)