Now this is where I am starting to rack my brain. I want to build a shower that is portable and can be used indoors and something that is aesthetically pleasing both erected and stored away. Any ideas would be great.
hankaye wrote:pyramid, Howdy;
Welcome to the forum, hellofva first post! , !
Only thing I can see to point out is ya might want to cross the tie-down straps on the side-by-side.
That keeps slack from occurring should it shift any. Check out some equipment hauler's trailers next
time you find yourself near a truck stop. Other than that tid bit, I think everything you've done so far
is top notch. Lookin' forward to more.
hank
CoventryKid wrote:Hi Pyramid and welcome!
Your conversion is looking really great!
Regarding an idea for your shower...Now this is where I am starting to rack my brain. I want to build a shower that is portable and can be used indoors and something that is aesthetically pleasing both erected and stored away. Any ideas would be great.
I designed our small bathroom to have the shower in it, but over time, I realized doing so would mean a shower that was just going to be way too cramped. I was also concerned about how I could keep the whole thing watertight. So I scrapped that idea, but continued wondering how......
Over the course of our trips, It dawned on me that while it would be really nice to have a permanent shower, a "temporary " one could work just as well. And a temporary one wouldn't eat up valuable real estate inside our trailer, to be used for 5-10 minutes a day.
Our kitchen is in the middle of our trailer so I figured I'd put the shower right under our Maxxair fan in the kitchen. I started with bungee cords to hold the shower curtains - I used 2 of the plastic liners hooked together and connected a hand-held shower head to the kitchen faucet. My wife and I tried this for a few weeks (we were travelling so I couldn't do anything permanent anyway!). Admittedly it was a 2 person operation - me showering and my wife turning the water on and off, and vice versa.
When we got to friends in Nova Scotia last fall, I made the shower permanent. Because of the layout, I decided to place drapery I-beam track around our front skylight instead of around the Maxxair fan. I attached the shower curtains and placed them in a storage container we got from WMart. I mounted the holder for the shower head to the ceiling and installed an on/off fitting at the shower head.
Now it's just a matter of turning the water on at the faucet with the shower head valve in the off position, hop in and turn on the water and shower away - no help needed! And as it turned out, one of the two gaps between the 2 shower curtains is right at the corner closest to the kitchen counter - a great place for shampoo, soap, etc.
I took these pics with my old BlackBerry, but I hope you can see how it works. The shower curtain store in the corner out of the way, but unfortunately not out of sight.
This sure beats wandering up to the RV park's showers and paying to have a shower. By the way, the blue "tub" stores in the back of our van when not in use.
Hope this helps!
Padilen wrote:Glad your able to use the garage door tracks. That was one of my plans that didn't work out.
I'm not sure of how your building your platform. But I see Dexion - perforated angle iron. It isn't as strong as non perforated angle. So with a lot of weight may bow or bend it.
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