Heated shower: options available

It is pleasant for everyone to wash in warm water, and some even dream of having a heated outdoor shower, although such procedures during climbing in the mountains, exploring forests, safaris, or simply family outdoor activities are hardly ever provided by anyone.

Nevertheless, there are opportunities (for hiking as well), therefore, water heating is equipped in various ways - energy, sun, gas, electricity, diesel fuel, and so on. We want to tell you about the most popular ways, as well as show the video in this article.

Types of heating

Car shower VIMOIKA

• Well, let's start with the most incredible - it can be said, this is a real know-how for human hygiene on reste. Speech about the VIMOIKA car shower, which you can use in almost any water reservoir, but, of course, if you have a car. This design works like a heat exchanger, but it needs to be built into the tosolny highway, with the help of which the car interior is heated to the stove radiator, which in no way damages the functioning of the highway and the antifreeze does not enter the water for the shower.

• For pumping water, a 12V pump is used here, which is connected to a car battery, and a lake, pond, river, well, or just a canister of water that you brought with you from the house can act as a source.. If there are difficulties with the dense approach of the car to the reservoir, then you don’t have to worry too much - you will have enough hose for 30m of length, and the height of the ascent can be up to 8 meters!

• To connect the VIMOIKA you, first of all, as required by the instructions, you need to unwind the hoses in the direction of the reservoir to make sure that you have approached a sufficiently close distance.. Next, connect the connectors from the shower and the supply hose according to the marking to the heat exchanger, and also connect the connector from the supply and intake hose to the pump, and lower the intake filter into the water. After that, open the tap on the watering can and connect the cable to the battery - after filling the hoses from the shower water flows - you can use.

Note. In the cold season (spring, autumn), you can simply increase the engine speed by adjusting the thrust to the gas pedal - the water will heat up more intensively. Just do not forget to drain all liquid from the hoses after use before putting them in storage.

Country shower

For a country house and cottage, you can always use the so-called garden or garden shower, where water is stored in the tank, only it can warm up from the sun, or from an electric heater installed inside the tank.

This energy store can be purchased in the store - they are produced with different volumes and different cost - but the price here depends not only on the size of the tank, but also on the material produced - they can be either steel or plastic, as in the top photo.

Basically, the temperature of the supplied fluid here can be regulated between 20? C and 80? C, and the volume can be from 90 to 200 liters.

But you can save a lot on such units if you make a shower for a heated bath with your own hands - for this you will need heating elements and any capacity - a plastic or metal barrel, a fuel tank or a tank that is self-welded from steel sheets.

We will now tell you how you can do it at home with an electric drill with a crown cutter for tapping a heater and a simple electrician's tool (side cutters, pliers, etc.).

Notice how the end of the tubular heater works — this is shown in the upper image. We will need to make a hole in the tank according to the diameter of the nozzle (M), but so that it does not exceed the value D, this is the stop part of the device that will fix the heater from the inside of the tank.

As a rule, the length of the nozzle (L) should be sufficient for any barrel, fuel tank or what we have welded from metal sheets.

If you use a plastic container, then you will not have problems with holes - it is very easy to make them with an electric drill with a crown cutter or a drill of the required diameter - it is much more difficult to perform such work on metal tanks.

The fitting of the electric heater can be quite thick and you will not find a drill with the desired cross section, but there is a way out - you draw a circle of the desired diameter and pass through it with a 2-3 mm drill bit, after which you knock out or cut out the middle file. Of course, such a hole will not be ideal (see photo above), but in order to give the edge a more or less distinct outline, they should be processed with a semicircular file.

If the holes are uneven, you will avoid problems if you put metal washers with rubber or paronite seals on both sides (under the stop part of the heater from the inside and under the nut from the outside). In addition, a summer shower in a heated water bath will be much better if you connect a thermostat or even a thermostat with a heater, but the second option is possible only in the situation when you have the heating element installed.

Flow Heaters

Virtually any such autonomous flow heater can be used for a shower, even if the booth is located on the street. Here the most important is the power supply, but the electric cable from the house is quite simple, just you need to follow safety precautions.

Note. Some users are looking for such an electric heater in the network as a shower head for heating water, but this device is installed only on the taps, and you can only connect the watering can by changing its design yourself.

Conclusion

Perhaps, we told you all the possible options with the help of which you can get a shower with heated water at home. Of course, we did not mention the boilers with different energy sources, but this is only for indoor use.