Weekend Projection | Diy Outdoor (Heated!) Shower

This month, Erick together with I select been working remotely from my family's tiny cabin the Adirondacks-- thank yous to a trusty cyberspace stick together with some major hours clocked at the pocket-size town library. While our days are filled amongst our normal workload, it's prissy to pass our weekends together with evenings outside, listening to the birds together with enjoying the quiet. 

Recently, nosotros had the persuasion to apply an outdoor shower for the army camp since everywhere yous instruct there's sap or pino needles cleaning to you, addition it only sounded similar an amazing sense to rinse off exterior later on a twenty-four threescore minutes stream on the lake. The exclusively employment was that well-nigh DIY outdoor showers are FREEZING since the H2O come upwards from a spigot--not real relaxing!

 

In our version, nosotros root the H2O from the sink faucet--which way warm water! Read below for how to DIY your own--it's surprisingly simple!

You'll Need:

-Two, 2"x4" pieces of wood, cutting to 30" long each

-8, 3" nails

-Saw

-Smooth stones

-Hammer

-Nearby tree

-Hose long plenty to gain from kitchen window to the desired tree 

-Flexible shower head

-Rope

-Adapters for hooking upwards hose to shower head. NOTE: this volition vary based on size of your shower head, hence brand certain yous convey the hose together with shower caput to the hardware store to brand certain you're getting the right size! For us, nosotros needed: 1 dual male/female 3/4" garden hose adapter together with 1 garden hose washer to claw upwards the hose to the shower head

-Adapter to connect sink to hose. For us this was: 1 garden hose manful individual past times 3/4" woman individual pipage thread.

 

Directions

1.) First, nosotros are going to brand the drainage arrangement where yous stand upwards when taking the shower. To apply this, stair out out 15" on each of your ii pieces of 2x4s together with grade amongst a pencil.

2.) Saw inwards them both inwards one-half where yous made the grade (you tin skip this pace past times having the hardware store cutting them for you).

3.) Nail together ii pieces of forest hence that they shape a 90" angle. Repeat on all sides hence that yous select the frame of a square. 

4.) Place the frame nether the tree where you're setting upwards the shower together with fill upwards amongst smoothen stones.

5.) It's fourth dimension to connect your hose to the sink amongst the adapters yous picked out at the hardware store. Also at this time, connect the shower caput to the other terminate of the hose.

6.) Now that the hose is connected to the sink, direct the hose exterior a window to the desired tree. Twist the rope upwards the tree until yous instruct to desired branch. Depending on how much slack yous have, yous volition select to wrap the hose a few times or hence the body to brand certain it's taught.

7.) Now that the shower caput is threaded to desired branch, secure it inwards identify amongst a niggling slice of rope. 

8.) Turn on the sink to plow on the shower together with enjoy!

Meet the Contributors

Emily Hirsch together with Erick Steinberg are blogging twosome behind Hello Home Shoppe, a lifestyle spider web log amongst a focus on DIY projects, recipes, together with travel. When they're non blogging or working every bit 2/4 of the creative agency Jolly Bureau, they moonlight every bit locally sourced sandwich vendors inwards Philadelphia, PA.