Shower Head for Outdoor Shower

[plowhog]

Seems like some of the new shower heads with little rubber nubbins for the individual holes work really well

More good advice. We installed these when we built our home two years ago. If you detect any clogging, you just rub your hand across the shower head and it quickly goes back to normal.

 

[TheMan419]

We have Amazon.com: Tier1 Replacement for P5-20 5 Micron 20 x 2.5 Spun Wound Polypropylene Sediment Water Filter 6-Pack: Kitchen & Dining followed by a water softener. The water in the house is great when both are working. You can tell when you forgot to refill the salt in the softener or when the filter needs changed out.

Filter change is easy. Takes all of 5 minutes and that is if you forget to bring a trash bag down with you and have to go back upstairs to get one. The filter is a wet dirty slimy mess when you take it out.

All of this is plumbed after the blue expansion tank.

 

[MossRoad]

We built an open-top outdoor shower a couple of years ago --sort of like the Green Acres prototype. It has been a blessing but the holes in the keep clogging. I've thread punching them out with needles et al but they stay clogged. I think the solution is a plastic head. When I review them on Amazon I see "high pressure" and a few "high flow" [2.5 gph] but I'm not sure what this means. We have plenty of water pressure and have our own well [that benefits from more usage] so water conservation is not a factor. I just want a head [preferably hand held] that will blast the dirt off me. Any advice is appreciated.

As others have mentioned, it's probably 1 of 2 things, or both:
Sediment
Minerals in the water

Have you determined what is actually plugging it up yet?

 

[RalphVa]

Here are pictures of the outside shower valve together and with the "fan" end unscrewed. Very easy to maintain. Have a 2 1/2 gallon "Tiny Titan" hot water heater on the cold water from the outdoor spigot; so, needed a low flow, but it still has a "blast" to it. Water fans out from that cone that unscrews.

Think I bought it years ago at either Lowes or Home Depot.

 

[cqaigy2]

That looks like a good setup. So is the screen clogging too?

 

[skipmarcy]

When I did our indoor shower floor tile several years ago I bought a simple PVC showerhead from Lowes to use as a shower on our back porch for the duration of the job. Extremely simple, cheap and you can easily drill the water inlet orfice out to any size you want for good flow. I made up a double female garden hose to hook to our laundry sink in our attached garage to run out to the porch. The shower head worked so well I got rid of the expensive shower head with all those little nipples and put the PVC one in our main shower. Every couple of months we soak it in some bleach water to get rid of the red build-up from the clear water iron from our well. Our house has a 5 micron sediment filter so solids aren't a problem for us.