How to make a summer shower out of scrap materials

02-03-2018

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Perhaps all gardeners know that the soul on the site is just not enough. This is especially important in the summer, when, after a day of work in the beds, water procedures must be taken simply for reasons of hygiene.

It is easy to collect a summer shower, and there are a great many manufacturing options. On some aspects of the work and will be discussed further.

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As a temporary solution, you can make the simplest shower: at some elevation, fix a metal or plastic tank, preferably a dark color, with a tap and faucet, make a screen. For everything about everything, it will take a minimum amount of materials, time and labor, so such a structure can be built in a few minutes.

Polycarbonate shower

Stages of work:

First, align the place on which the construction is assumed.
Then you need to mark the place. A wooden peg is driven into the ground. Then, at a distance of about two meters from it, the next one is driven in and the cord is pulled between them.
Similarly, two more pegs are driven in and connected, so that a square is formed. To check the correctness of the markup they compare the diagonals, they must match.
It is necessary to dig holes about 1 meter deep in places of marking corners.
Wooden or metal poles are installed in these pits. It is important to remember that the part of the pillar that will be below ground level should be treated with waterproofing materials, for example, wrapped with roofing material. As a sealer, necessary for the strong retention of the pillar in the ground, you can use a brick battle or concrete, if we are talking about a metal frame.
Then you need to perform crates design. At a distance of about one meter from each other, boards are nailed or screwed with self-tapping screws, or metal profiles are welded. This crate must be made over the entire area of the walls. Where there is a door, the crate is not made.
Then on the walls are mounted sheets of polycarbonate. The sheet is cut to size and screwed with screws.
The next stage of construction is the installation of the roof. As a roofing material can be used, for example, simple slate. Pre-stack and fix several horizontal bars, which will perform the functions of the truss system. Sheets of slate are laid and fixed on them. It should be borne in mind that on one of the sides, small bars should be placed under the carrying bar in order to provide the angle of slope necessary for the precipitation to flow.
Next, set the water tank. In the place of its installation it is necessary to additionally strengthen the overlap. The tank can be made, in principle, of any material, but plastic should be preferred. This tank will be much lighter than metal, which is important.
And, finally, the final stage is the installation of the door: a wooden frame of a suitable size is sheathed with polycarbonate and mounted on hinges.

As a floor, you can use a simple pallet, which is a grate made of wooden beams.

Shower on a metal frame

For the manufacture of shower, you can use a metal corner.

First, the frame is welded. Its dimensions are chosen arbitrarily, but the height of the building must be at least 2 meters.
After the frame is made and installed, a water tank is mounted upstairs, and some opaque film stretched between the supports will serve as walls.

In order to shower one person, it will take at least 20 liters of water, which means that even the smallest water tank should have a capacity of about 50 liters. It follows that the installation site of this tank should be well strengthened.

Video: building a summer shower on a metal frame with a barrel of 220 liters

From metal profile

Among the materials, we can mention the metal profile that has become customary. As in the previous case, the frame is built, and then sheathed with this material. In principle, this option deserves attention, but from the practical side metal is not the best choice.

Constant contact with water will occur in the shower, which means that no matter how well the profile sheet is covered with protective compounds, corrosion will begin rather quickly.

Again, as a temporary measure in a hurry, you can solve the problem in the following way. With all the necessary materials for the construction of such a structure is assembled in just a few hours. But perhaps this is one of the few advantages.

Video: summer shower design from metal profile

Heated

This option is good in all respects, as it allows you to use the shower in any weather, however, its device is somewhat more complicated and requires more knowledge and skills.

You must make a solid foundation and use logs or metal.
The most acceptable base option would be a kind of monolithic plate. It is necessary to dig a small ditch about 70 cm deep. At the bottom, a pad of sand and rubble is poured successively. The thickness of each layer is 20 cm.
On top of this cushion is a concrete screed.
Then the frame is mounted shower. Acene tubes treated with water-repellent compositions can be used as the base for the frame.
The outer walls of the shower should be finished, for example, with wooden clapboard. To do this, first going to crates.
Inside the walls are sheathed with insulation and waterproofing, and then also finished with clapboard.
Then you need to make a truss system of wooden beams. After that the crate is mounted, which is covered with roofing material. As such, you can, for example, use metal profiles.
Next, set the door.
Finally, the water tank and the heating system are mounted directly. The most acceptable and simple option is to purchase a special system with automatic temperature control. As soon as the water temperature drops to the set point, the relay is activated and the heating is activated. When using such a system, the shower can be used in any weather and temperature, which is very convenient. However, please note that for the heating operation will require the availability of electrical network.

It can be added that one of the most important working conditions of such a shower is the device of reliable thermal insulation. As the most suitable for this material can be called polystyrene foam. It is resistant to moisture and easy to install. And if it is also covered with a dense film, then you get an almost hermetic room, which will be relatively warm in itself.

To speed up the heating of water in the tank it can be painted black.

If a heated system is used, it can be additionally equipped with an automatic water supply, which will make life even easier, but all these technical devices will entail additional financial investments.