diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 90c9f49566bae..f4f600282a39d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - `Trainer.add_argparse_args` classmethod fixed. Now it adds a type for the arguments ([#1147](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1147)).
 - Fixed bug related to type cheking of `ReduceLROnPlateau` lr schedulers([#1114](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/issues/1114))
 - Fixed a bug to ensure lightning checkpoints to be backward compatible ([#1132](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1132))
+- Fixed a bug that created an extra dataloader with active `reload_dataloaders_every_epoch` ([#1181](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/issues/1181)
 - Fixed all warnings and errors in the docs build process ([#1191](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1191))
 - Fixed an issue where `val_percent_check=0` would not disable validation ([#1251](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1251))
 
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/evaluation_loop.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/evaluation_loop.py
index bfbca4c25db29..f36ed898cffbc 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/evaluation_loop.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/evaluation_loop.py
@@ -338,14 +338,14 @@ def run_evaluation(self, test_mode: bool = False):
 
         # select dataloaders
         if test_mode:
-            if self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch or self.test_dataloaders is None:
+            if self.test_dataloaders is None:
                 self.reset_test_dataloader(model)
 
             dataloaders = self.test_dataloaders
             max_batches = self.num_test_batches
         else:
             # val
-            if self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch or self.val_dataloaders is None:
+            if self.val_dataloaders is None:
                 self.reset_val_dataloader(model)
 
             dataloaders = self.val_dataloaders
@@ -399,6 +399,15 @@ def run_evaluation(self, test_mode: bool = False):
         else:
             self.val_progress_bar.close()
 
+        # eventual dataset reloading
+        if test_mode:
+            if self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch:
+                self.reset_test_dataloader(model)
+        else:
+            # val
+            if self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch:
+                self.reset_val_dataloader(model)
+
         # Validation/Test end callbacks
         if test_mode:
             self.on_test_end()
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
index 9994af6c2d108..5081104b77ccd 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
@@ -275,7 +275,6 @@ def __init__(
                           " and this method will be removed in v0.8.0", DeprecationWarning)
             self.gradient_clip = gradient_clip
 
-        self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch = reload_dataloaders_every_epoch
         self.progress_bar_refresh_rate = progress_bar_refresh_rate
         self.check_val_every_n_epoch = check_val_every_n_epoch
         self.track_grad_norm = track_grad_norm
@@ -320,6 +319,8 @@ def __init__(
                           " NaN grads will be printed automatically when detected.",
                           DeprecationWarning)
 
+        self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch = reload_dataloaders_every_epoch
+
         self.truncated_bptt_steps = truncated_bptt_steps
         self.resume_from_checkpoint = resume_from_checkpoint
         self.shown_warnings = set()
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py
index cc44882ea5a58..84a8139645016 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py
@@ -289,7 +289,9 @@ def train(self):
         model = self.get_model()
 
         # load data
-        self.reset_train_dataloader(model)
+        # if reload_dataloaders_every_epoch, this is moved to the epoch loop
+        if not self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch:
+            self.reset_train_dataloader(model)
         self.reset_val_dataloader(model)
 
         # Train start events
@@ -305,6 +307,9 @@ def train(self):
         try:
             # run all epochs
             for epoch in range(self.current_epoch, self.max_epochs):
+                # reset train dataloader
+                if self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch:
+                    self.reset_train_dataloader(model)
                 # set seed for distributed sampler (enables shuffling for each epoch)
                 if self.use_ddp \
                         and hasattr(self.train_dataloader.sampler, 'set_epoch'):
@@ -393,10 +398,6 @@ def run_training_epoch(self):
             if self.is_function_implemented('on_epoch_start'):
                 self.get_model().on_epoch_start()
 
-        # reset train dataloader
-        if self.reload_dataloaders_every_epoch:
-            self.reset_train_dataloader(self.get_model())
-
         # track local dataloader so TPU can wrap each epoch
         train_dataloader = self.train_dataloader