How to Build a Camp Shower

By Ethan Fierro
Published on June 7, 2013
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Build your own outdoor shower and enjoy outdoor living to the fullest with ideas and plans in “The Outdoor Shower.”
Build your own outdoor shower and enjoy outdoor living to the fullest with ideas and plans in “The Outdoor Shower.”
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This camp shower design is easy to assemble and requires only minimal materials.
This camp shower design is easy to assemble and requires only minimal materials.

Find practical ideas and whimsical inspiration in The Outdoor Shower (Storey Publishing, 2006). Author and designer/builder Ethan Fierro offers plans and step-by-step instructions on outdoor showers for a wide range of uses. Learn how to build a camp shower in this excerpt taken from chapter four, “Temporary Showers.”

You can purchase this book from the MOTHER EARTH NEWS store: The Outdoor Shower.

Here is a horse of a different color. With the ability to drive in all the supplies you need comes greater flexibility in creating your outdoor shower. Material weight is no longer of consequence, so the type of temporary shower you build is dictated only by your needs and the degree of imagination you want to bring to the design.

The required components for this shower are a structural framework that provides support for the plumbing and any enclosure you might want, a system for heating the water, a pump (either electric or manual) that delivers the water to the showerhead, a platform for the bather to stand on, a showerhead and temperature-control handles, and a graywater drainage system.

Structure

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