simple outdoor shower plans?

Too Red Neck?

Too Red Neck? Who?

Our shower drains down into a flower bed with the Obedience Flowers. Those are the blue/purple flowers in the bucket beside our shower.

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Scroll through the photos and there are lots of good ideas. Good luck.

I just threw that out as there was no comment from Alice, but I'm sure she's scurrying about preparing for the TEXodus.

Have arrived in Missouri! Planting the garden this morning and planning the location of the hereby christened Redneck Shower! Will have to scrutinize the shade pattern in the afternoon. I may not be able to place it uphill of the garden and still get solar heat for the water.

I may have to learn to use the router and make my own signs.

Cabin in the Woods for my place.

Redneck Shower for the.... redneck shower.

Shady Oaks for my neighbor's place.

Quirky Goat Farm for the goats' barn.

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I can't post a picture but will try to describe what I am building. Have a lot of rocks. It is cut into the side of the hill below the top garden. Three sides are where you have cut into the hillside. I am lining this with rock. Did I say we have lots of rock. I am bringing in the water from the house, which is 40 foot away. I am placing a ball valve at the house to turn off in the winter. The waste water will fill a tank that will water my lower garden. It will have a glass top and bench to sit on. It will also have no door. The entrance is like you see in a wal mart or hospital where you walk in and than step over to the side. I am about 1/4 done. Floor is done in washed smooth gravel pebbles and smooth rocks from a creek. Hope to finish this summer.

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Mine started out as a shower cabana from Cabela's. The tent-like covering only lasted two seasons in the sun, and I replaced it once. Got tired of that expense, an ended up covering the basic frame with sheet metal cut to size. The actual shower is a 5-gallon shower bag that's filled with water, left to heat in the sun ( It gets HOT!) then hung from the center of the shower stall. I love mine, and use it all summer long, every summer! In the photo, that's my cousin doing the modeling.

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That reminds me. I camped at an old cabin for a weekend that had a plastic pipe with a valve coming out of the pond embankment. That was the shower.

This Redneck enough for ya?

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Our existance here is soley for the expoitation of CMG

Our cabin is on state forest land and most do not have running water. They have to have an outhouse over a sealed septic tank. The next guy up the road has a well w/ a pump, probably has an old french drain for his grey water as the outhouse tank is higher than the cabin floor.

He added louvered side panels on the far side of the outhouse made from PVC shutters [look like wood grain but no rot] with a hinged pair for a door. He has white gravel on the ground and the sides are around 2' up from the ground so the shutters provide 'just' enough privacy and the shower head & control is mounted to the outside of the privy wall. He runs a hose out from the cabin.

Simple, made from leftovers and no nooks or crannies to attract nesting critters.

Just noticed this thread.

Here's my input. A stall made of PVC that I wrap a tarp around. Put a 15 gallon tank on top of a shed. Hose coming out of the bottom, and the top hole for a vent. Have a Y valve on the hose at the top of the post. One side of Y with female end to hook garden hose to fill the tank, and the other side of the Y going to the shower. Have a fitting at the end of the hose to which attach brass nozzle. Hung a board with holes drilled with hole saw at different heights through which I put the nozzle for showering.

I move the stall around a bit on the lawn with the 20 foot hose. Put a rubber mat inside the stall on the grass.