Outdoor shower

[czechsonofagun]

Last year I made me an outdoor shower, well water only. It is very basic, just soldered 1/2" copper pipes that can stand on their own and a cedar platform. Also secondary spigot 16" from the ground for feet washing.

The first year I just had it behind the vineyard, used it only at night and mooned the moon

This year I have a private screen from outdoor fabric and use it at least twice a day, there is nothing, short of swim in the river, better after working outside on hot day.

Do you have/use outdoor shower?

 

[BrianDT]

Is this water heated at all?

On a hot day I can see where it would be refreshing, but also very cold if its well water?

I like the idea of the shower outdoors but something like they have at the campgrounds where they have wood enclosures. That would allow you to clean up from a days work without bringing in grease and mud through the home.

 

[Localmotion]

Here a lot of people have outdoor "pool" showers, and many are heated by the sun. The simple design is a water pipe which curls up and down the stem of the shower 4-5 times before reaching the shower head - the pipe is covered by a black metal box, which allows the water to heat from the sun. Downside is that on a hot day, the water can be too hot to use for a few minutes!

 

[czechsonofagun]

The water comes from frost free hydrant via a hose. Sometimes yes, as Localmotion says, the water is scolding coming out

I take shower before going to work at 5-6 AM and yes, it is cold but still enjoyable. Being brutal to yourself really wakes you up in the morning :thumbsup:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Back in the olden days I signed on with a harvest crew to cut wheat. We cut a lot of wheat up in Kansas, and the farmer had rigged up a 55 gallon barrel with a shower head for us to use. I am not a cold blooded person, and it gets pretty cold up in Kansas, even in July. We like to froze our rears of (at least I did) using that thing, but it's all we had. The least he could have done was to paint it black to warm it up a bit. We all slept in an old school bus that had been rigged with bunks...bad idea; we stayed up all night telling jokes. Didn't get a lot of sleep...Ah, the good old days!

 

[JRobyn]

I could really easily put an outdoor shower under my deck off the back of the house. It would be on the concrete apron coming out of the garage doors, and there's nothing back there but woods. It is still a ways down my priority list, but you are inspiring me to raise it just a bit!

 

[keegs]

It's on my bucket list.. The wife's been after me to put one in for 32 years... :laughing:

 

[TripleR]

Growing up, we just hung the garden hose over the clothesline after we finally got running water. When I was hauling hay, we just stopped at a drainage ditch, stripped down and jumped in.

 

[brin]

The water comes from frost free hydrant via a hose. Sometimes yes, as Localmotion says, the water is scolding coming out

I take shower before going to work at 5-6 AM and yes, it is cold but still enjoyable. Being brutal to yourself really wakes you up in the morning :thumbsup:

OK Prokop - I guess we will be seeing more of you on YouTube or somewhere...remember the satellites, drones etc. out there....:laughing:

 

[Lady Tonka]

We cobbled together something similar to this, from stumbling onto this website:

tinygogo: April 2009

I've been amazed how well it works in a climate that's certainly not known for being a "hotbed" of solar applications. Even on cloudy days (about nine months a year), we have lots of warm water.