Camp Shower, Garden Pressure sprayer.

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I was away wild camping bank holiday in wales with a couple of other cars, one of the guys had a 'Hozelock Flower Shower' garden pressure sprayer, filled it half full of cold water and half full of boiling water and used it as a shower... genius.. it works a treat!!!

Needless to say for 12quid I now have one on order, and as it takes 5 litres of water, my kelly kettle takes 2 1/2 litres... it's the perfect marriage..!

Food for thought for any of you overlanders...
 
you mean something like this:

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Ltd-Porta-Flower-Shower/dp/B000PBUFHC]Hozelock Porta Flower Shower: Amazon.co.uk: Garden & Outdoors[/ame]

?

Looks interesting as you build up pressure with the hand pump hmmm :)
Nice Idea...
Perhaps... Why not get one of those house water pressure tanks and plug a compressor to it, since I should have one for tyres already... and just pressurise air in it which pushes water out since water can't compress ;-)

J
 
Booger have you ever used one of them Solar showers?

I personally think they are ****e. If your on the move they dont heat up. You have to leave them set-up at camp. You cant drive around with them on the roof hopeing they will heat up. IF the Sahara sun cant heat it on the move, nothing will!

G
 
Those solar showers are rubbish, they just dont work. they are a faf to use, take ages to heat up, then you've got to hang it somewhere to let gravity do it's work...
What I like about the pressure sprayer idea, is it's simplicity. Ok it's a bit baulky, but no motors or batteries or wires... heat up some water, put it in the bottle, pressurise and way you go, simple locking on/off valve on the head.
 
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if you've got a roofrack you could strap on one of those plumbers pipe tubes, seal up the ends, put a filler and a drain tap on it, paint it black and fill it full of water.
 
Booger said:
portable gas water heater for hot showers when camping
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Very interesting idea... My only concern would be having a gas water heater rattling in the trunk of the car... I have 2 of these in my house back in Italy... and they are not built TOUGH. They do appear delicate... and my concern is that rattling on offroad/dirt/gravel might cause gas pipes to come loose, which is a danger! I would think that an electric heater running off an Inverter is MUCH LESS efficient, but MUCH MORE secure... i.e. I would never house a gas heater in the back of my car for hose reasons...

Just my thoughts...

Jonathan
 
Well my 'flower shower' arrived and I did a quick test at home.
2 1/2 pints (the capacity of my kelly kettle) of boiling water on top of cold to bring it up to level, gives a good temperature, and when pumped up to the recommended pressure gave just over 5 mins of continious shower water... Which would obviously last a lot longer if you stop and start it...

On my next overland trip; I wont be carrying any inverters, gas bottles or gimmick 12v pumps for the sake of having a wash!
 
ac3bf1 said:
Very interesting idea... My only concern would be having a gas water heater rattling in the trunk of the car... I have 2 of these in my house back in Italy... and they are not built TOUGH. They do appear delicate... and my concern is that rattling on offroad/dirt/gravel might cause gas pipes to come loose, which is a danger! I would think that an electric heater running off an Inverter is MUCH LESS efficient, but MUCH MORE secure... i.e. I would never house a gas heater in the back of my car for hose reasons...

Just my thoughts...

Jonathan
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Yes that makes total sense, however I have found a more robust system that would take up less space than a flower shower. It's at Scorpion Racing in the roofrack accesories section, and looks like this.

Obviously you would already have a cylinder for cooking, and you would only connect the gas when having a shower.

Wheat2.jpg


Obviously the flower shower still has the edge in terms of simplicty, but when I have been spraying weeds with a pump up sprayer I seem to remember doing loads of pumping...

Battenberg am I right in assuming that 5 minutes continious water was without additional pumping ???
 
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Scrapiron have ceased trading. The company has been wound up by the the Offacial receever.. But the website is/was still operational and taking peoples money without sending anything out. the Prick that ran Scrapiron and it's several Fraudulant revivals is now running some sort of Motorcycle parts/import company.
 
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