Outdoor Showers - RV-Dreams Community Forum

LeslieW · RV-Dreams Family Member

Outdoor Showers

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

I fill up my bucket to wash the windshield on the road with it when the bugs are thick.

Howard · Host

We use ours occasionally to wash our hands. If we did more boondocking, I bet we would use it a lot more.

So if you plan to always have hook-ups, I'd skip it unless it would be less than $100 installed. If it's less than $100, I'd get it - what's 10 bucks a year over the life of a 10 year rig? Besides, if you want to sell it, people put a value on those little bells and whistles whether they're worth it or not.

If you plan to do a lot of boondocking, maybe give it a little extra consideration.

Just another wishy-washy answer from HP.

blijil · RV-Dreams Family Member

We have used the outdoor shower at the beach, for the dog, for the grandchildren and as an easy way to pump water into the holding tank when boondocking.

To explain the last item you have to consider refilling the tank without moving the RV too often when boondocking. It is a pain to hold a 6 gallon water jug up and poor the water in. Your pump most likely has a valve an short hose to winterize your rig. Change the short hose to a longer hose so that you can reach to the bottom of your water jug, barrel, or whatever you carry your water in. Open up your outside shower, disconnect the shower head, put the hose in the fresh water fill and pump the water in. Depending on you pump and hose sizes you can pump from 2 to 4 gpm. Most important is that you don't have to lift the water to poor it in. This works on many rigs and have seen some very expensive motor homes with this very simple work around when boondocking.

It has been worth a lot to us.
Larry and Jacki

Sharker6 · RV-Dreams Community Member

It makes a great fish cleaning station and for getting the sand off at the beach. I need to come up with a folding table w/ SS hardware at counter height right next to it.

Tylersamma · RV-Dreams Family Member

The grandkids really love to run thru the "sprinklers" on those really hot days (laps around the RV).

Cindy T · RV-Dreams Family Member

I think the outdoor shower is quite handy. We mostly boondock and can get quite dirty from hiking, dirt biking etc. The outdoor shower is a great place to hose yourself off or to hose off muddy shoes, etc. I lay out rubber mats so the area around the shower doesn't turn into a mud bog.

oldcouple · RV-Dreams Community Member

We use ours all the time, in campgrounds we have a shower tent that sits next to rv, in the boonies, just au nautural