Does anyone have any experience building a temporary shower?
Ive tried looking around for some links… dont want to spend 200$ on a portable camping shower..
I have hot and cold water taps available in the laundry room next to the garage so I was thinking about setting up some sort of drainage tub with curtains and a hand held shower head in the garage .
I need to retile my main bathroom and i know it will be out a day or two and my gf isnt too keen on going on without a shower.
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When a few of us from this web site worked fixing up a Katrina-damaged house for the pastor of a church in Laurel, MS, the paster got two fiberglass burial vaults (he worked part time for an undertaker) and hooked water up to them to make showers!
Maybe a Rubber Maid storage shed (or did Walmart put them out of business?) Thinking of a plastic storage shed just big enough to stand up in and turn around in. Or a piece of fiberglass, Lexan or steel corrugated roofing bent into a part-cylinder with a shower curtain.
Bethel Lutheran Church in Biloxi, MS has a shower trailer that had to have cost far less than $100K. Enclosed utility trailer; two "roomlets" with cheap plastic shower stalls, accessed from the back, a propane water heater in the front. Outside of the stalls the walls are covered with plastic coated hardboard wallboard. Handles upwards of 100 showers a day at times.But of course all that's really needed is a shower head, curtain walls, and a draining floor. Can be a hose nozzle, a sheet (hung from ropes), and a wood pallet.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell
Everyone thought the burial vault showers were interesting, but by the time I was there, FEMA had provided a super-duper trailer with propane heated hot water and about eight showers on each side (men/women). We used those.
The Bethel shower trailer was put together by a Boy Scout troop.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell
For a day or two? - just rent a cheap motel room.
I was "between" bathrooms once. After the backerboard was installed (but before the tile), I draped the walls with poly sheeting so the shower head could be used on a temporary basis.
when we redid our bath ...
attached a garden hose to the laundry tub spout.
and ducted and coat hangered the spray nozzle off the steel beam right above the floor drain in the basement. Had already duct taped the handle down ...
just adjusted the temp at the faucet.
worked great.
actually was nice ... nice big "shower" area.
even splurged and bought a bar soap holder that's still down there attached to the side of the laundry tubs.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
During the last batch of Hurricanes here in Florida we were without electricity for a week. The local utilities were discouraging the use of the drains because the lift stations were without power. I'm not very functional in the morning without a shower, so I just went to the back yard and used a hose.
Hoola hoop, sheet of plastic or $4 blue tarp, kids' wading pool,duct tape, string, garden hose.
I've done it before with a garden hose hooked up to a laundry tub. But adjusting the water temp was a pain. From the time you made the adjustment until the time the water changed temperature at the end of the hose was about 20 seconds. So if ya do that, use short hoses.
Do you guys belong to a gym, or something like that? If ya do, could you use THEIR showers for a couple of days?
Or maybe use a shower at a friend or relative's house?
Remove the hose from the faucet, adjust the temperature, mark the setting with a Sharpie, reattach the hose.
I rigged one up once... Five gallon bucket on pulley in tree.
Hose from bucket to a coil of copper pipe.
Hose from copper to nozzle from watering can. I got a nice camp fire going and placed copper coil on fire.
Sat back and drank a beer or three.
Got undressed stepped into my "Shower"
Turned valve Pure steam shot out and scalded me all over.
You could have heard me scream for miles!