Posted 2009-09-09 7:08 AM (#110462) Subject: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 112 Location: Bow, NH
I just bought a propane camping shower and want to set up a make shift cowboy shower in the front stall of my slant load. What do folks usually use on the floor, if anything, to help drain the water? I've thought about buying a washing machine overflow pan and connecting pvc pipe to drain it out the back door. I also like to haul with shavings in the back two stalls and can visualize a big mess if I don't drain the water somehow and just let it hit the floor. I'm not really keen on drilling holes in the floor of my trailer but I guess I could.
Posted 2009-09-09 7:25 AM (#110463 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 73 Location: rochelle va.
If you have a lot of shavings, and don't want them wet. get the shower pan, you can cut a a 1 or 2 inch hole in the floor. It won't hurt the strenght of the floor. Put a short tube to go through the floor so the water won't drain out under the pan. I would recomend a regular shower pan, rather than a wash machine pan. The shower pan would have more strenght, taller sides than a wash machine pan
Posted 2009-09-09 11:01 AM (#110481 - in reply to #110479) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 792 Location: East Tennessee, USA, Planet Earth
Weather you use a muck bucket or a kiddie pool, make sure you also use one of those non-slip mats, so you don't slip & fall. As the containers can and do get slippery.
Posted 2009-09-10 10:48 AM (#110541 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 140 Location: NM
I have one of these:
It has a hose connect (you can see it on the bottom left in the picture not being used) so you can drain it. The local Tuesday Mornings had them for about 20$. I still see them there when I drop in so they weren't big sellers.
Posted 2009-09-11 9:14 AM (#110578 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 824 Location: Kansas
I looked at those in one of my catalogs and thought they looked perfect until I saw 99.99. I will have to see if I can find a Tuesday Mornings-thanks for the idea!
Posted 2009-10-25 12:34 AM (#112349 - in reply to #110541) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 136 Location: Alabama
Bells, does a regular water hose screw onto the water drain plug of your dirty dog bath? I can't find any definite yes or no answer on the internet and every picture I've found just shows the water draining out on the ground right where the unit is sitting. Thanks!
Posted 2009-10-25 7:54 AM (#112352 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 824 Location: Kansas
Something I will do "someday" in my shower is run the drain hose into a tank on wheels-they make them for RVs and you can get them as small as 25 gallons. You just roll the tank where you want to drain and empty it. Not every place I will be with my trailer is a good place to run water out on the ground, so...thought that might work.
Posted 2009-11-04 6:40 PM (#112805 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 192 Location: Hutto, TX
WE got a square plastic washing machine drain pan and attached a water hose connector. I carry hoses so we just attach a hose and drain it someplace where the resulting mud doesn't cause any trouble.
Posted 2009-12-31 1:21 PM (#114705 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Location: WayOutWest
I just put a shower in our first stall this spring. We used a smaller black rubber stock tank the sides are about 12'' high so water doesn't splash out under the curtain. I used 4 pcs. of small pvc and ran nylon cord through it to make a 2 1/2' square so it can be taken down and folded up if you need to use the stall. I found these great spring hooks at menards to hang the pvc from and they spring back flat against the side whe nnot in use. I installed a regular metal sink drain to it and drilled a 1 1/4 hole through the floor to drain it and used a 3" hole saw to cut through the rubber mat. Then the rubber disk can be put back in if you remove the tank to haul something in the stall. It works GREAT!
I also made a small pallet using the decking material to stand on so when you get out you can stand on that up off he floor.
Posted 2009-12-31 2:28 PM (#114707 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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We used a black rubber stock tank that was oval and about 12" tall that way the curtain stays inside and water doesn't spash out the sides. I put a regular metal sink drain in it and used a 1 1/4' for the drain pipe to run out through the floor. The mat I used a 3" hole saw to drill through and then can replace the rubber disk if you need to use the stall so shavings dont get all stuck in there.
Posted 2010-01-18 12:18 AM (#115404 - in reply to #110541) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Posts: 94 Location: Minnesota
That folding pet tub caught my attention. I came across one in December at Harbor Freight Tools, on clearance. I bought it for $8.00. All I have to use it with is a solar shower.
Posted 2010-03-07 8:46 PM (#117326 - in reply to #110462) Subject: RE: Showering in front stall
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Location: WayOutWest
I would go with a 12" tall black stock tank about 20gal. or so and attach a regular drain onto it and drill a matching hole in the floor. It works great!
Showering in front stall
Darn, they're all sold out though out the town... Season item you know ...
