Outdoors showers?

[Lori T]

Who has them? I really want to put one in at the barn..I am so tired of being drenched withing 10 minutes! I can't do barn chores and then attempt to ride, and I hate driving home feeling like this! Would love to see your pictures and know where you got it from? Right now I seem to be pulling up more info from pool supply stores. What I have in mind is putting 4 posts in the ground off the back of my barn and building 2 walls and a door with plywood, putting down a mat and then putting a shower of some sort, that I can hook up to the hose.
After looking at camping sites, I could lower the walls and even add in a porta-pottie!

[poltroon]

Camping supply places are your friend. You could make something very simple that would be a big help. Your plan should work fine.

It won't be warm in the mornings, but you can buy black plastic water bottles that will even heat your water for you.

[Sarabeth]

I have one in the yard for my swimming pool and love it. Got it from a catalog last year, it's the one with a teak base and a spigot for attaching a hose. Great for a quick rinse or even a fast shower in warm weather. It was just under $100.

[islgrl]

I have an outdoor shower - not at my barn but at my house and I use it everyday from late May until October. I have a teak floor and not sure what the wood is for the surround, a couple shelves for shampoo etc. I have a shower curtain rod along the back wall with a hook behind it to hang my towel and robe and keep them dry. I LOVE my outdoor shower. Couldn't live without it.

[greysandbays]

I'd just throw a pallet on the ground, stick a 7.5" T post at each corner, string a tarp around it, hook a couple hundred feet of dark hose to the nearest faucet, put a nozzle on the shower end of the hose, and wire nozzle to the top of one of the T posts. And maybe (if there isn't already some sort of view-blocking barrier, string up another tarp around the "entry" for a changing room of sorts.

It would take a few tries to figure out how much dawdling you could do before the blast of cold water hit when the warm water in the hose was gone...

[Equibrit]

http://www.calazzo.com/os/index.html

[Lori T]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have found one outdoor shower at www.secure.poolcenter.com
I don't care about having hot water...it is so freaking hot, that the feel of the cool hose water will feel nice! I think I will work on it this weekend..get the plywood for walls and a mat, and I am seriously thinking about making it private (low) enough to put a porta pottie in!

[BuddyRoo]

I thought that was the secondary purpose of the wash rack?

[Lori T]

I thought that was the secondary purpose of the wash rack?

Uh..not when I lease the farm and the owners house is about 100 feet from the wash rack!

[BuddyRoo]

Uh..not when I lease the farm and the owners house is about 100 feet from the wash rack!


Ahh, yes, that could be problematic.... :lol:

Well, good news is that it appears there are several options.

If you want to do something on the cheap and your wash rack is enclosed on 3 sides, you could probably put up one of those clothesline things like you have in hotels...(easy to take down). And just rig up a tarp. Not exactly pretty, but probably functional.

[ReSomething]

When I was a kid we were building a summer house up in the mountains and got nasty sweaty filthy dirty by the end of the day. One of my Dad's workmen was an Army guy and he was in charge of the pit latrine and the shower. He built the shower out of a black 50gallon drum that he set high up on the Westerly side of two big fat trees, built a little deck to stand on and strung a wire around the whole thing with a curtain of some kind. The drum had a pipe with a stopcock and a regular showerhead, the hose fed in to the top. By dusk when we were knocking off, the 50 gallons was a nice temperature from the sun beating down on it all day, and I remember it being so wonderful. You could make over your wash rack like BuddyRoo says and it would be quick and easy.

[Simbalism]

For cheap and easy- I bought a camping shower/porty potty tent from Walmart. It was $32 and a solar shower bag was about $7. It has a hook to hang the shower bag, a zipper door and a zipper flap for a screen window(high enough to maintain modesty). It has some web straps to hang a towel, and some mesh pockets for shampoo, soap, etc. It has a tarp like bottom and about 2 inches of a mesh material near the bottom to allow water to drain out. I also sprung for a small porty potty also from Walmart. I'm lucky the barn where I board has a shower in the bathroom/laundry room in the barn.

[kari]

I made one for my hubby for father's day last year!
It's on the back side of the house, very convenient after yardwork, swimming, beach, riding...whatever!
The shower head and controls are attached to the house and can be removed in the late fall (I am in New England), and the water supply lines shut off and disconnected. The sides are PT wood slats (decking, actually) and the front has a shower curtain on it that matches the house. The floor is 12x12 concrete pavers.
The kids use it daily during the summer, they love it. Me, I use it after yardwork mostly. I'll have to see if I can dig up pictures!