- Before we ever started RVing, we thought that the dirtiest
job we were going to have to tackle was this
right here, the sewer. - It turns out it's not,
that's not bad at all. There are some much dirtier jobs. - I'm nervous, I'm nervous. Oh, that's offensive, that's foul. (water running)
Almost, oh, my gosh. Ugh, that's really gross. I mean, when you put a
spotlight on it like that. - (laughing) That's bad. (upbeat music) - Well, this job does have the potential to get a little bit dirty
when you're connecting and disconnecting the hoses. That's really the only part, when you first set it up and take it down. - Yeah, because the actual
dumping and flushing part is just pulling a few handles in here. (both speaking) On the gill. - You don't even need gloves for that as long as you keep that area
sanitize, it's no big deal. - Yeah, but wear gloves when you're -- - Wear gloves.
- messing with the sewer hose. - Wearing gloves when you
were setting it up, for sure. - Yeah, the real dirty jobs we're going to have to take
this inside, believe it or not. - Yep, let's go. - We've been living full-time in our RV for over three years now. And the dirtiest jobs that we have found that we have to do on a
somewhat regular basis are all in this tiny space right here, the sink, the shower and
mostly this toilet tube, which we're going to get into later because it's the grossest of all of them. But because we're in such a small space I'm going to step out, I'm
going to let Chad come in. He's going to show you how he tackles the dirty jobs in here. And I'm going to stand up there and film and laugh at him. - Yeah, me. So, the first thing
we're going to chat about is the shower drain. The shower drain in an
RV is a little bit unique because at the top level you've got the top strainer
like you would have at any normal shower drain just a little plate with holes in it. This also has like a second level which is about that far down. That has a little cross-member that I think might be there to kind of catch hair and things like that. We choose to use a thing
called a Shower Shroom which is called that because it looks like a
little mushroom down here. To use that you pull that top part off and it sits on the part below it. Kind of catches hair and things. So that's the first part
that needs to be clean and it gets a little bit
gross under that Shower Shroom even though it's stopping
the hair and stuff, there's still gets build up
on those little cross things. - And I usually clean this out after I use it and he uses it once because you can see
that's gross guys, I know, but that's just hair. - Gross!
- All right. (girls gagging, coughing and screaming) - Settle down, it's hair.
(girls squealing) - This thing gets gross, but you just take a thing of toilet paper and clean it off every
time you guys use it and then it should be fine. Stuff still gets through here though. - So we genuinely just
replaced those Shower Shrooms because they're not very expensive. However, we don't have a clean
one to show you right now. So we're just going to clean this one and clean that thing off there. Another quick note about
shower drains in RVs and also sometimes your sinks
and other water appliances. A lot of them have P-traps and a lot of them have
things called HepvO filters. And I'm not sure if I'm
pronouncing that right it's H-E-P-V-O. What that is is a waterless valve. So it doesn't actually hold water and it's designed to save space. I can definitely see where that's an issue in the rear shower, where
there's not a lot of room between the floor of the
shower and the floor of the RV. And you've got to have
it in a tight space. Really all the HepvO is, is it's a rubber tube
that's closed on one end and designed to open like this to only let water flow through
and not let gases back up. Serves the same function as a P-trap, but it's waterless and
it takes up less space. The reason I tell you this is because you don't want to
use any kind of shower snake or those little drain chain thingies that you can put down the drain, that catch hair that you can pull out. And it's really gross, but
awesome at the same time. - Stick that hanger down there. - Ew, no. - It's either that or
we cut off all your hair because that's what caused the problem. - Oh, my gosh, ew! - You can't use those
with these types of drains because it would go through that rubber and pulling it back out would damage it. So you have to be careful what you use and know what kind of drain
you have down below it. - They also should not use like Drano and stuff like that, right? - Yeah, none of that kind of stuff should go into the fittings and the pipes and plumbing of an RV. - You want to hand me the Shroom thing, I'll get that soaking and cleaning while you're doing the other part. - I'll hand you the clean side. - Oh, thank you. - So, let's get started down here. All I do is take our little shower head. And by the way, if you're
looking for a really good RV shower head, this one is awesome. The stock shower heads stink. This is the Oxygenics
we've had for three years. We love it. So I have this down here just to provide a little bit of water. (water running)
Just going to let that run. (upbeat music) I just take a flathead screwdriver and just dig at this stuff. (handle squeaks)
Turn this off now. It's hard to grab some of this stuff. So I just pull out what
I can, what is that? - [Tara] The thing that
gets caught in there is soap and hair.
- And it takes patience. (tool scraping) (laughing) Like a lot of RV jobs. - Can you not, you can't
pull up that cross, - Nah.
- that cross piece, right? - Well, you know, I think this
whole thing might screw out but that's a whole project,
it's a project to do that. These needle-nose pliers can help get down in here and grab stuff. And you're going to find that it's difficult to get big chunks, but there's a pretty big one. So these super thin needle
nose are great for this. (upbeat music) - You'll know when it's time
to do this to your shower because the water just
doesn't drain fast enough. I mean, I guess it's pretty obvious, but even after you clean
out the Shower Shroom and stuff and you're water's
still not draining very fast that's a good sign that you
need to take care of that. - Yeah.
(upbeat music) So this is like a steel wool, SOS pad. And again, this doesn't
have to be perfect. It's going to be hidden by
the Shower Shroom anyway. The big thing is to get
the big chunks out of there that are stopping water flow. (cheery music) So you can see the difference
from before and after where obviously it was probably
about 80% obstructed before. Now it's nice and open. So now when we get the
Shower Shroom cleaned and in there the shower
will drain properly. - I'll go get it. (happy music) I got it pretty clean. I couldn't get some of it off
unless I scrubbed a lot harder but this'll be good for
now until we get new ones. - Yeah, that's actually pretty good. - Yeah. - That's not bad at all.
- Right. - So, we'll just put
that back in here now. And that dirty job that
wasn't too bad is done. - Yeah, that's probably the least -- - Yeah, they're going to
get worse as we go along. - Don't worry, guys.
- A lot worse. So, for this part, I got to get down low. Luckily there's just enough
room for me to sit right here. It's going to be hit or
miss as to what kind of valve you have in your
sink or your drains. For this particular one, our
sinks all have P-traps in them. This one, the kitchen and the rear bath. And I noticed one time when
I was having to replace our drain in this one because
we got a new sink and stuff. The P-trap gets disgusting and that can hinder the water flow and obviously cause lots of smells. - Yeah, if you're having some odors and you can't figure out
where they're coming from, that's a good chance that it
might be coming from there. - Very good chance. - This was a dirty job for sure. - This was, I have a really
horrible sense of smell. I think it's from breathing
too much jet exhaust but I could smell this for sure. - Yeah, so just in case, hey, we got lots of masks laying around. So if he needs to cover
his nose, we're good. - We're going to need a
little bit of light in here. This is my new favorite flashlight and Sergio who did our
independent suspension had this. So I immediately bought three of them. I have a flashlight addiction, but the cool thing about this is not only does it have a
regular flashlight flashlight, but it's got (metal scraping) bam. - [Tara] Ah, you blinded me. - And this thing can also
do red and flashing red. But this was really cool because it's got a magnetic end here. I don't have any metal
in here to sit it to - [Tara] What about the toilet
paper holder isn't metal. - No.
- Okay. - But I can just set this
on the ground down here and provide some light in here. And for this, I'm just
going to have a bucket to catch some of the water and a towel to get all
the splashing fun stuff. And this doesn't generally
require any tools. It's just a hand. (pipe thumping) By the way some of the
jobs we haven't done in a timely manner
because we've been waiting for a good chance to
film this for you guys. - Yeah.
- This may be really gross. - [Tara] Yeah, just like
the upcoming toilet tube. - We already know that's bad. All right.
- Oh, my God. - You can see there's lots
of very nasty nastiness. (water spilling)
- Ugh! (Tara and Chad retching and gagging) I'm gonna probably need like
a couple of paper towels to wipe around inside here. Thank you.
- Oh! - It's nasty, it does not smell good. Ugh, well, another thing
that we have when we do this is the fact that our gray
tank gases can come up now. That's what this P-trap does is it stops sewer gases in our case. There's a nice bunch of hair. - [Tara] It's gray water, but you know, this is your bathroom sink so you brush your teeth so
you got all the toothpaste and the soaps and the hairs and whatever else might go down the sink. Wait, let's show them how
pretty it is in there. - Well, the really nasty stuff
fell into the bucket here. - [Tara] All right, wait, oh, barf. - It looks like barf, doesn't it? - [Tara] It does, it looks like barf. We're not going to dump this
outside or anything like that. We're just going to dump it in the toilet. Since we have to clean
the toilet next anyhow. - Yeah.
- You get to do it. (water pouring) (Tara gagging) - [Tara] Kind of make some
of this up as we go, guys, if you can't tell. - Totally making this up as we go. I mean, I've done this before
but every time it's like, oh, what'd I do last time? Oh, that's right, I shoved
toilet paper through there. - [Tara] I gotta say
though, that that P-trap isn't nearly as bad as it
was the last time we did it. - The first time we did this it was probably after like two years. (toilet flushing)
- You excited to do that next? - Can't wait. Again, it doesn't have to be perfect. I got most of the like
jelly gel, gel stuff. - [Tara] Let's just say
it was just toothpaste. - Yeah.
- That's all it was. - All the used toothpaste.
- Yeah. - With any of these
plastic fittings like this, if it's taking too much
effort to turn them, you're probably cross setting
it so be careful of that. Should go on fairly easily. All right, leak check.
(water gushing) - Leak check fail.
- Leak check fail? - Leak check fail.
- Oh no. - Just got to get this
little tighter I think. - [Tara] (chuckling) Leak check fail. - Is that bowl still handy? (upbeat music) (water spilling) Speaking of cross ring I think I kind of didn't have it on straight the first time which is why it didn't
tighten down as many turns. Leak check part two. (water rushing) - Good?
- Leak check good. - [Tara] (singing) Sweet. Now we're moving on to your favorite. - Okay, yeah. - All right guys, this is
probably the most disgusting task, job, RV job, dirty job,
whatever you want to call it that there is that we have found so far. - We had no clue this was even a thing. - Nobody ever told us about this one. And now if you think
about it, you're like, oh yeah, that makes sense. If you full-time or you RV for like several months at a time, you've
probably come across this. And it's the buildup on the toilet tube. I don't know what else to call it. But the tube that drains
into your black tank straight from your toilet bowl. - Yeah, much like a
lot of the things here, there's no P-trap here either. Your household toilet has a P-trap built into the ceramic
piece that's part of it. The P-trap is up inside there. When the water goes up and over, out of the way and you can't
see this stuff anymore, that's the last you
have to think about it. Not here.
- Not so. - As stuff flushes down over time, stuff starts sticking to the tube and then it starts to
accumulate and create buildup. - Yeah, for lack, and it's not
like direct fecal material, - Well, of course, it is. - It is, but it's almost like a jelly. It's very like a gel,
it's like jelly fish. - What is that Private Pile? - Sir, jelly donut, Sir! - A jelly donut! Are you allowed to eat
jelly donuts, Private Pile? - Sir, no Sir! - Okay, so it's disgusting. And we had no idea when we
first started noticing it we were like, what the heck? And what are we supposed to do? And we tried different things and the hot water pouring on
there, that didn't really work. He has built several
different contraptions and I think he finally got the thing -- - This is version 3.0. - Do you guys, you guys
know he likes to be MacGyver and like MacGyver things up. (dramatic music)
(MacGyver breathing heavy) - And you just can't reach
it with a normal toilet brush even with gloves on and
trying to get that in there. I've tried that. So I wanted something that was extendable, that I could collapse and put into our waste
hose container down there. And I looked forever for
a brush head like this with a screw adapter, by the
way, this is all sanitized. This is all brand new,
hasn't been used yet so that's why I'm just touching it. So I decided to build my
own and I bought a brush and Dremeled out the
hole here and put it in. And then I glued it and screwed it in. - What kind of pole is this? All purpose extension pole. - Three foot, 0.9 meter pole. This is plenty of length to
do what you're about to see. - So we'll put links for all
this stuff in the description. - I am going to use gloves
for this particular part, just in case I have to
knock stuff off the brush because (both chuckle). Hey, and this is the part
where we should warn you. The things you were about to
see are graphic in nature. If you have a sensitive stomach you might want to turn the
channel or fast forward - Like me.
- Or just get out of here. - When we filmed our flush
your black tank into a toilet when we're mooched talking video -- - Link below. - People were either saying thank you for putting the poo emoji over
the actual toilet stuff. And some people were like, what the heck? We're grownups, we're grown
ups, we can see that stuff. So, I don't know. - I would like to show you guys just because it's part of what it is. So if you're offended by
gross stuff, I'm sorry. - If you're offended, maybe
should we give them a countdown like three, two, one, close your eyes. - Three, two, one.
- All gross. Oh, my gosh. Ugh, that's really gross. I mean, when you put a
spotlight on it like that - Ugh, that smells. - You can clearly see
why it would cause odors - Yeah,
(Tara huffing) - The odor you get when
you're flushing your toilet, a lot of it can be due to that. - When you flush your toilet and it smells and you go through the process
and you dump your tanks and your flush them and it still smells. That's probably why. - So I have a grocery bag standing by. So after I'm done scrubbing this I'll get all the big chunks off of here before I put it away
into the dirty bits bin. Also, I have installed a valve on this for when I want to grease the seal. And we'll show you that at the end because that's important after doing this. Because we're going to
scrape a lot of that off. All right, here we go. (water flushing)
(brush scrubbing) You can see the kind of stuff
that comes off of there. - Oh, my gosh!
(Chad laughing) (brush scrubbing) - It's just a matter
of starting at the top, working your way down. (upbeat music) So one thing to note is your main valve, it's kind of like a little of a convex, like valve that closes
and opens like this. And as it opens this part here, you can kind of see the front edge of and all up under there you
want to get into there too. - Stuff gets stuck in there. - Yeah, so you want to start at that end and then scrub all around
there and let that stuff fall and then work your way from the top down. - Stuff.
- Stuff. (water flushing) It's all so much better. And you get way down in there. - We really did wait
way too long to clean it because we were waiting on the right time to film this video. - Filming stuff takes a lot of setup. It may not seem like it.
- Yeah. Oh yeah, I can see how clean the wall is. - Oh yeah.
- Good. - I forgot, usually I have
my headlamp for this job. - Oh yeah, that would make sense. (peppy music) (brush scrubbing)
- Squeaky clean. - [Tara] He, he, he, he, he. - I'm not sure exactly
how the tube is attached to the bottom where the floor is or how it's attached to the tank. But I try, when I go down
to the end of the part that's obviously between
the floor and the tank because you can kind of tell
what part of this is toilet and what part is going into the plumbing. I try not to shove on it too hard because I don't want to disconnect it. That would not be a fun thing to repair. - Talk about a dirty job. - I take it easy, I'm not
jamming down too hard on it. I am trying to get some
lateral forces on this to scrub but I'm not jamming too hard. I think I'm done.
(water flushing) - Look at that, clean. That's so nice. It's like fresh and clean, brand new. (upbeat music)
You ready for the bag? - I'm ready for the bag, bag me. - I think we've talked
about this particular job and product before but let's just show them again real quick. - Yeah, this is something that I do every time that I dump the black tank. It's also something that
I do every time I see that the toilet is not holding water. This seal down here, that little flapper plastic
piece I talked about, goes up against a rubber seal and it's not a perfect seal, so you want to use a little
bit of plumber's grease, any plumbers grease will do. - You put it on the black rubber ring. - Yeah, and this is also why I installed a shutoff valve for this toilet because it's difficult
to put this grease on when water's running.
- Right. And you don't want to have to run outside to just turn it off. - Yeah, because you know,
such a long way to go. Quarter-turn now the water's off and all I do is get a glove, obviously. This is a new glove, by the way. Get it on your finger,
get a good gunk of it. And then you're going to
pull down the valve open and then just rub it alongside
the bottom of the rubber part and you know get it on
there good and liberally. As you open and close the
valve a couple of times it'll smear around and create a good seal. - It's much more pleasant to do it after you cleaned the toilet. - Oh, yes.
(upbeat music) And that's it, I'm gonna
turn the water back on. (water flushing)
Give it a couple of flushes. Let it kind of spread around there and that's it for this toilet. And you do want to keep water in there because that seal is designed to stay wet. And if it drains and then
stays dry for too long that seal can be ruined and
you'll have to replace it. - And they want to make sure
they use the plumber's grease and not like some petroleum
base or something, right? - Absolutely. - Nailed it.
- Nailed it. Yeah, no, definitely don't use Vaseline, nothing with petroleum-based in it. Because that will just -- - Dry it out.
- Yeah, dry out the rubber and it's do the exact opposite
of what you want it to do. - We have a couple more,
just a little bonus tips that we're going to show you. And we're going to start in a bedroom in our washing machine closet. This next one, like we
said, it's just a bonus tip. It's not like gag me. It's not the easiest job, but I'm going to move these out of the way just so we can see, hooks
everywhere we can put them. So with the washing machine, every couple of months I try to do this, but again we've waited a little too long. Buildup occurs and mildew occurs. It's the worst in this rubber piece here. But it also happens up in here. So you can see all the
buildup and stuff in here. That's not too difficult. These pieces come out, but
then do we need the flashlight? - Yeah.
- There we go. So you can see that it gets
slimy, mildewy and then -- - Mold and mildew. - Yeah, and that's disgusting.
- Yeah. - So this is a dirtier
job than it usually is because I tried to prevent that. See all that, that's disgusting. So we're going to clean that. I haven't had complete success with getting the mildew and
mold stains off completely, but I do get them to the point where you can no longer feel
them, they're no longer slimy and I think it's just a stain. We're going to try vinegar and water. We also have a mildew cleaner here and we also have a magic
eraser because that might work. - The problem is it's
such a tight space here between this door and this door. - We got a garbage. - What the heck's he doing? Is he smashing it down,
he's smashing it down. It's like the old foot in
the garbage to make more room for more garbage things but
he's using a front loader. - Yeah, you were saying
that we can replace the whole rubber piece
there if we need to, right? - Yeah, I need to look up
and find the part number but from the research that
I did it seems like this is kind of a common issue with
front-load washers in general just because there's a door and a seal and when you close it,
there's no air in there and mold conformed fairly easily. - When I'm done with
using the washing machine, I do try to leave those
open and air it out. I don't always, but I try
to remember to do that. Sometimes if the dryer's
going and it's noisy, I like to have the door shut
just to prevent the noise -- - This door here. - That in turn shuts it like that so you don't get as much air inside. - So we could probably do
a better job at making sure that stays open all the
time so it can air out. - I could also try to
wipe it out when I'm done. These are just things I'm going
to have to remember to do. Because it's not like second
nature for me to do that. - If you know a solution for this, please reach out below in the comments or on our blog or whatever. - About any of these things
that we're talking about. - If you got tips we
always love to hear them. - These are just the ways
that we've come up with and we wanted to share them with you. But surely somebody's
probably got even better tips. - Maybe even somebody not named Shirley. - I knew you were going to do that. - Can you fly this plane and land it? - Surely you can't be serious. - I am serious and don't call me Shirley. - These things just pop out. I say just like it's easy, but now I can't get it to come out. (machinery rattling) Okay.
- Got it. Got pretty bad.
- That's pretty gross. Can you see?
- Oh yeah. You just put those in the
kitchen sink and soak them? - Yeah.
- Here's that blue ball. - Thanks, man, thanks for that feedback. - Thanks for the tips.
- Yeah, that's good. (water running) All right, I'm just going to let that soak while we clean the other crap. (spraying mist)
This is vinegar and water mix. Just going to let it soak on
there, I guess, I don't know. Oh, gosh, that's disgusting. See, like when you try to
scrub this piece off, though, - It doesn't do anything. - It does a little bit but not
like you would expect it to. It just doesn't, it's just stain. (relaxing music) Let's try the magic eraser
and see what happens. (relaxing music) So that doesn't really
do much on the rubber. It's all up in each crevice,
but mainly under this. Oh, sometimes the clothes don't come out as fresh as I would like for
them to and this might be why. (spraying mist)
- You're done more of this than I have but I've tried to clean this, it just does not ever look clean. - You can get the slimy,
slimy bits out of it. We've had this for three years. It might be a good idea
to just replace the seal. I mean, I'm scrubbing. (upbeat music) It's not as bad as dealing
with poop, that's for sure. I'm finding that the magic
eraser works pretty well at cleaning these
compartments for the detergent and the softener, which is
also what gets mucked up. Look, it's gross. I've tried scrubbing with a brush, I've tried all kinds of things. You can see now nothing's
really coming up anymore. I think it's just stain. I guess now I just got to
go clean the reservoirs that the stuff goes into. - So we just realized that
this whole tray pops right off. - That makes it a lot easier how to get in the back
nooks and crannies here. So, that's what I'm going to do. We'll probably order another one. It has been three years, so it's okay, we can get another one. But I feel better, I feel like
it's at least cleaned off. Maybe stained still. That actually took longer than
the other stuff that you did. We're going to show you
two more really quick tips and then we're out.
- Let's go to the kitchen. - I saw this little tip on one of the grand design owner's forum. Somebody was asking how people clean the stainless steel sink. I usually use steel wool but somebody said use a magic eraser. And since we have a little
bit of a magic eraser left from the dirt jobs that we just did I wanted to go ahead and show you. I tried it earlier and
I think that the bleach that I just put in here
kind of already cleaned this a little bit but check it out. It actually does clean and I don't have to
get out the steel wool. I did notice a big difference when I tried it to test it out. And then I can actually
polish this thing up too, this thing's probably pretty gross. - We replaced this about
every three months also. It's easy to clean out --
- That's pretty grossy. - Just to put a new one in. - They come in, I think
two packs or something, pretty cheap, we have
them in our Amazon store but you can see that it
really cleans that off. But if you don't have
steel wool, this works. This might even be maybe
a little bit better if it's less abrasive, I don't know. That's just cool. Something that I learned
on one of the forums. The last thing I wanted to share with you (paper towel ripping) now that everything's just a mess in here. I love having all these cabinets
and they're nice hardwood. They're hard to keep clean. They're hard to look nice. When I use different products on them, they never quite look good. They kind of have some rough pieces that can look still dusty,
even when they're clean. And, again, on one of the owner's forums somebody said to use this and I'll tell you what, it
is awesome on our cabinets. This stuff is like, you gotta be careful because it will stain
but, can you see, okay? I don't think that these are
in really bad shape right now but what I love about it is
it gets rid of any dryness. - These beveled edges
or routered edges here are a little rough and they hold dust. - Yeah, you can hear it. - That stuff gets right in there. - Yeah, and it just makes
them look so much better. It helps clean them, it
helps polish them up. It just makes everything look better. I think what you're supposed to do is rub it on and then buff it
off with a clean, dry towel. And that's it. This was just a bonus tip. You can get dirty, it can be a dirty job. It can stay in your hands if you don't want gloves and stuff. And then you're doing
a lot at the same time. The chores are all done. Those dirty jobs.
- Time for a beer. - If you guys have any other ideas on some of the jobs that we showed you, if you have better ways
to do them, let us know or any other jobs that you find dirty jobs that you have
to do on a regular basis, put them in the comments and
we want to hear about them. - Yup, if you want to see
some of our old content, our website is a great place
to see that and that's it. Plumber's grease, I'm not
sure what it's made out of. I think it's actual ground up plumbers. No?
(Chad laughing) I don't know.
- That was a bad dad joke. A really bad dad joke.
- That was a bad dad joke. Ugh!
(Tara retching) God.
- You want to put the mask on? - Oh. (Tara gagging)
- I don't think this can help. - Tight spaces, comfy?
- Oh yeah, super comfy. - Stain, stainless steel or steel wool. I mean, if you don't have
stain, wait, what's it called? - Stainless, steel wool?
- Yeah. (Tara bangs foot)
Ooh. - Tight space.
- Yah. - [Tara] (whispering) Okay, action. - I'd love to.
