DIY Camp Showers: 7 Designs
When wild camping or backpacking, I usually don’t bother with a shower. I’m fine being stinky for a few days. But sometimes it’s really nice to take a shower. Like when it’s 95 degrees out or your stink has gotten so bad that flies are starting to swarm. 🙂
The problem is that most camp showers are just overpriced bags with a water hose attached. They are made out of cheap materials which break easily. Yes, I once broke a gravity bag-type camp shower. It slipped out of my hands while trying to tie it to a tree branch and popped open immediately when it hit the ground!
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There are better camp showers you can buy, such as cool pressurized ones which don’t have to be lifted overhead. This one is pretty awesome. Some, like this one, even have built-in water heaters but are crazy expensive.
If you don’t feel like paying for a camping shower, you can make one yourself. The homemade camp shower designs below range from really simple handheld or gravity showers to more complex DIY pressurized showers.
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This is the simplest way to make a camp shower. Just find a large, sturdy container with a lid. Drill some holes into the lid to make a shower head. See the picture below.
You can also use a sports cap lid for your shower head. It doesn’t create a spray but you can adjust the flow and turn the flow on/off.
Tip: Add a vent to your camp shower (see how it was done in the picture below). This will prevent the pressure from cracking the bottle.
Here’s another simple DIY camp shower. For this one, you need a portable water storage tank like this one. Choose a tank which has these features:
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To make the gravity shower, you’ll just need to add a shower head to the spigot. The camp shower in the picture used a garden watering can head. Just glue-gun it onto the spigot.
Tips for Using the Gravity Shower:
The problem with using water jugs for your camp shower is that they are bulky. To save space, you can use a dry bag instead. Because the dry bag is flexible, you don’t have to worry about air vents like you do with rigid containers. If you don’t want to bother with the DIY shower, Sea to Summit makes a good one called the Pocket Shower.
You will need:
To make:
To use:
You can use this same shower bag as a pump for your camping mattress. Read the instructions here.
If you have a garden sprayer which has never had chemicals in it before, you can use it as a camp shower. You just need to create a shower head for it.
To create the shower head:
Read the full instructions here.
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If you don’t want to bother with this, you can just buy a garden sprayer which has a shower head attachment. 🙂
This DIY camp shower is similar to the one above. But, instead of using a plastic bottle for your shower head, you use a garden hose nozzle. Then you can use the on/off switch on the nozzle to get a proper shower.
To attach the garden hose nozzle:
See the full instructions here.
A problem with this DIY shower is that most garden sprayers have narrow hoses. You might not be able to get enough pressure for the garden hose nozzle to work properly. To make it work, you may need to change the hose. That means you’ll need a few more adapters. In the picture above, the hose has been replaced. Read how to do that here.
The brand Yakima sells a cool camp shower called the RoadShower which mounts onto the top of your car. The thing is crazy expensive though. It takes some work and a lot of tools, but you can make one yourself. You’ll need to keep it pressurized with a bike pump.
See the instructions here.
This is one of the coolest DIY showers I’ve seen, but also the weirdest to operate. It works on a siphon principle. To start the siphon flow, you have to suck on a tube. Because of the way it is designed, you don’t get any water in your mouth. You can stop the water flow by hanging up the shower head.
See the instructions here.
Source: https://gardencourte.com
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This post was last modified on 04/11/2023 10:46
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