Knowing How to Build for Outdoor Shower Setup

As a female, the toilet is one of the things that makes the van most livable for the long-term. You fill up the toilet’s clean water tank which you use for flushing, and then the toilet has its own built-in black water holding tank and a stainless steel shower pan rv. You put a little deodorizer in the holding tank which keeps the smells under control. There’s an indicator that tells you when it’s time to dump it. If alone and using it exclusively at night and occasionally during the day, it can hold a weeks’ worth of pee, no problem. When it’s time to dump it, you take out the entire toilet, separate the bowl from the holding tank, and pour the contents down the drain at an RV dump. When combined with the small dimensions of stainless steel shower pan rv, it’s pretty hard to shut the bathroom doors when sitting on the toilet. So one usually go with the bathroom doors open. This isn’t a big deal, but you got to be pretty comfortable with anyone who you might be traveling with.

And then, you have to think, where are you going to store all of that water? If you live in a warm climate and don’t plan on using the van too much in freezing temps, then you can store water outside the van. But what if you live in an extreme cold place? In harsh winter climates, any water tanks and lines you have outside the van with water in them will be frozen solid if the temps drop below freezing, including your gray water tank. Even pipes inside the van can freeze if it gets cold enough, and if the pipes burst inside your van, you are looking at some complicated repairs. Before moving forward with stainless steel shower pan rv bathroom, these considerations weren’t something that my builder discussed with me, and I made the mistake of not educating myself on all this stuff. He ended up putting a 10-gallon water tank inside the van and a 15-gallon tank underneath the van. Seemed fine to but thoughts about the pipes freezing didn’t even cross mind. Well now with the way my water tanks and plumbing are set up, the shower is only practical in summer.

Knowing that, I could have built some sort of outdoor solar shower setup off the rear doors instead. That would have been a lot cheaper and maybe a better use of the limited space inside my van. The other thing I’ll mention about my shower is that the water was leaking through the floor the day I left my original builder’s shop. They didn’t use a shower pan and failed to seal the floor properly underneath the teak. I fixed this myself by putting a thick layer of rubber flex-seal which filled in all of the holes. If I could go back, I think having an aluminum shower pan would have been a better bet. The other thing to consider for a stainless steel shower pan rv bathroom is if you want hot water and how you are going to heat the water. Hot water requires additional plumbing lines plus the water heater itself. My builder installed hot water lines, but didn’t install the actual heater because he didn’t know how. I had to go somewhere else for that after my build was already completed.