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Has anyone had an success in installation an outside shower. To me it seems a great idea for keeping the mud out of the house following a ride / dog walk and perhaps for more day-to-day use? Has anyone had an experience of this, positive or otherwise?
Is this the cameltoe thread again?
Oh, and hosepipe works:
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Not yet but is specified on my new garage. Mixer out the back with a grated drain and basically an outside showering area. This also doubles up as the bike wash so you can hang your bike over it. The way its designed is you ride up to the garage, hang your bike up, hose it down (hot or cold or both), rack it, have a quick shower then go through to the hot tub. Oh yes. Large bell to ring for wife/servant/other to bring me a beer*
* this is an optional extra I have not priced yet
* this is an optional extra I have not priced yet
Financial or relationship?
NZ Col where does the drain go?
Pigface-In theory it is going to join the soil pipe with the rest of the dunny stuff. But still looking at perhaps splitting the bike wash and the shower to two drains with different exits. The main pipework is all within coo-ee anyway. We're investigating soil traps so that the main dirt and stuff gets suspended out and the grey water goes into the drain. If anyone has done this before would love some insight, its just in planning at the mo and the pics are vague.
We're investigating soil traps so that the main dirt and stuff gets suspended out and the grey water goes into the drain. If anyone has done this before would love some insight, its just in planning at the mo and the pics are vague.
Be interested too for when I sort out my back garden, I want somewhere to clean a bike without clogging drains. My current vague plan was dig a bit of a hole and fill it with gravel and wash bike over that....probably more vague than your plans 🙂
I live in Wales. I don't need one 🙂
Considered adding one on the back of our outside loo but just use the hosepipe to wash the worst of the mud off.
IA, did that. Needed to level part of our garden and dispose of a patio worth of half bricks so dug a 3 foot deep hole, used the soil to level and chucked the bricks in to make a big soakaway. Bark chips on top, looks OK. Been washing bikes and jetwashing the moto on there for years, it copes perfectly with all the water. Will no doubt clog up one day and need digging out again.
Shower after a dog walk 😯 😛
went to a house where the guy had fixed a 10kw electric shower on the inside of a huge shed door. he would open door and shower on the drive (very private garden). wanted me to service the shower as not working very well when i said i was not touching that as not safe, he was unable to understand the safty issues
I live in Wales. I don't need one
And i live in Scotland- draw your own conclusions
fixed a 10kw electric shower on the inside of a huge shed door
Sounds like a novel solution to a lack of Ho****er!
understand the safty issues
Interested to hear that - is the shed a more wet/hostile place than a shower cubicle. Assuming the cable run is correctly armoured/shielded and preferably an RCD is in line.
What danger remains?
welshfarmer - Member
I live in Wales. I don't need one
I live in Melbourne, Aus, and have one but for 3 months of the year its like Wales as in the natural shower pressure is better than a lot of hotels manage
Get one coz it is so useful in so many ways.
i have fitted an electric shower outdoor for a customer.. fitted externally to thier stables but under the cover of the overhanging roof. Mira sport 8.5k i think it was. all pipework inside and isolated inside as per an outside tap. they use it for thier dogs.
On a more serious note...
My mate has one of these set up in his garden near his pool
http://www.kampa.co.uk/water-heating-showers/geyser-hot-water-system
Whenever we go away on expedition or when we used to compete in the Landrovers we would take it along with a small shower tent and could enjoy a hot shower anywhere at any time.