Portable shower advice

[patricia the newbie]

I'm thinking of getting a portable shower , I have a small camper van, VW size , any help would be appreciated.
PS, I bought a pop up tent, sadly, still up on my shed

 

[Baggydave]

Hi
sounds like a good idea but I fear In practice Not. Showering outside is fine but What about the waste soapy Water. It’s not very friendly or environment friendly To the locals.
we don’t have a shower in our van either & we either use municipal swimming pools or book onto a site/aire For showering.

plus heating enough water For a shower In a van Without a boiler can be a problem.
those black bag things you hang outside to heat in the sun can be ok but you need plenty of Warmth its & tricky in the uk.

im sure others will suggest other options.

 

[Richard n Ann]

I painted a 5L water bottle black and put insulation on the back side. It gets warm very quickly in Benidorm. All you'd have to do is put lots of little holes in the lid and hang it upside down

 

[patricia the newbie]

Thanks guys, perhaps I'll stick with baby wipes lol I'm only bothering b because a lot of places have closed their showers and toilets

 

[ryan_flea]

Just a thought, may be too much faf but..... skip to about 5 mins 30s.

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[Ranger]

We had a portable shower system made by Gardener a few years ago. It was easy to erect, waterproof and easy to use with just one bucket of water which a submersible pump went into connected to a shower head and after showering you simply put the pump into the shower tray and pumped it back into the bucket for disposal.

 

[Leakylunar]

We’ve just bought portable shower, warm water into our folding bucket drop pump in turn on. It connects to our open tailgate.
Wether we use it is another matter!
£15 off Amazon.

 

[TheBig1]

Somewhere in my storage is a pump up shower we used years ago in a polypropylene double loo tent. Then a roll up shower tray, which occupied one end of the tent. The other end was the dry/changing area

Heat up water in kettle and add to a gallon of cold to suit or use a couple of the solar bags. Pour water into the tank, screw on hose and pump handle. Pump up the pressure and you get several minutes of showering when you press in the button on the shower head.

It worked really well and we hung on to it to shower the dogs off if we went out when muddy or to a beach. We now have an outside shower in the garage

 

[patricia the newbie]

Anyone want an open pop up tent

 

[Nasher]

Not quite what the OP was looking for, but I designed my van with the sink tap being a shower head on a hose - this is long enough to pass through the window

The idea was to use it for removing salt, sand, etc when returning from the beach - it works really well

I should add that when using it I've normally got a wetsuit on, so I'm not being a "Nasher the Flasher"

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[Stonemags76]

Anyone want an open pop up tent

You can’t get it down again can you? We could never put ours away either! Took ages! They don’t tell you that in the shop do they!

 

[patricia the newbie]

After 2 days and numerous bruises I gave up, I only paid ten pounds for it , I tried YouTube tutorials and still failed lol

 

[patricia the newbie]

I thought , what a great idea to have a shower in , oh dear, you learn , don't you

 

[patricia the newbie]

So the idea is , I'll wear my Cosi and shower outside my van and get back in my van for more intimate bits

 

[TheBig1]

It's certainly a knack that you either develop or not

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[patricia the newbie]

Please bear in mind I don't have running hot water , sadly

 

[TUCANO]

Although I have a shower in my van I very rarely use it, more than happy with a strip wash every day, twice a day when I go for a run.
Normally boil the kettle also instead of heating the water tank, most of the time I am wild camping so water conservation is more important.

 

[Sunseeker 115]

We've got one of these quite good and doesn't rely on electric as a back up to our moho shower.

 

[TheBig1]

We've got one of these quite good and doesn't rely on electric as a back up to our moho shower.
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just like my backup one. really good

 

[TheBig1]

this one is cheap or from £35 on ebay
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-...0001&campid=5338547443&icep_item=203039343822

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[Sunseeker 115]

Yes and that one on ebay has the shower head you can lock in place, ours doesn't but a cable tie that we slide up and down does the job to hold the lever in.

 

[Tonysswift]

colapz do a portable shower with all the fittings and the submersible pump can be charged by USB

 

[Captain Yoghurtpot]

We've got one of these quite good and doesn't rely on electric as a back up to our moho shower.
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I use something similar for spraying my weeds!

 

[TheBig1]

I use something similar for spraying my weeds!

basically the same thing, but the wand is replaced with a shower handset and valve. Very simple technology so very little to go wrong

 

[dalspa]

We've got one of these quite good and doesn't rely on electric as a back up to our moho shower.
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We have been using one of these for many years now and find it to be very practical and saves on water consumption when compared to using the built in heating system. Two of us can get an adequate shower out of about 6 litres of water, one near full PortaShower plus a couple of kettles of boiling water (I think our PortaShower only takes 5 litres) We only use the hot water from our built in system in the colder months when we would have the heating on, however, it is noticeable then of the greater volume of water used. The PorterShower is also useful with just cold water to cool down in very hot weather.

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[Sunseeker 115]

We've got one of these quite good and doesn't rely on electric as a back up to our moho shower.
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they are also very good at cleaning off the dog before getting back into a vehicle, as well as watering the garden