How to build a summer shower with your own hands

Without a summer shower at the dacha in any way. And while you do not have it, you certainly feel some discomfort. Of course, after work on the site, when the sweat drains into three streams, I want to wash off all the dirt and feel relief. Well, if there is a pond or a lake near the house. Otherwise, you can build a summer shower with your own hands. Moreover, it is difficult in this there is nothing.

Summer shower for a holiday with own hands: where to start

The first thing you need to choose the place where it will be installed. Here you have to start from how you are going to heat water. If using a heater, the summer shower can be located in any place convenient for you. But most vacationers prefer a simpler option: heating the water with sunlight. Therefore, the summer shower made by oneself should be located in an open place, which will not be shaded by trees throughout the day. Try to choose a place somewhere on the outskirts of your site, so it will be much more convenient. So, if you decided on a place, move on.

How to build a summer shower in your country house with your own hands

There are two ways of development of this plot. One simple, but expensive, another - more complex, but to make it real, you will need a minimum amount of money. In the first case we are talking about a ready shower cubicle for a summer shower, which will have to be bought. The choice of such shower cabins is huge, as, actually, and the prices for them. Which of them to choose - you already decide for yourself. Then you only need to install a shower stall, and also fix a tank above it, from where water will be fed.

If you are going to build a summer shower with your own hands, then be patient. You can proceed.

First, let's define the size of the shower cubicle. Remember that your summer shower should not look like a village toilet, in which you can hardly turn. Dimensions determine, proceeding from the fact that during the shower you can safely raise your hands up, move them to the sides. Those. Space should be enough. Unambiguously comfortable design will be 190x140 cm, 60 cm of which will be used for the construction of a miniature dressing room (if, of course, you need it).

Proceeding from the planned sizes, mark on the ground a rectangle. Then you need to make a foundation. Remember that at the very top of your summer shower is a tank, so its very design should be strong enough. To do this, it is best to dig concrete pillars into the ground, they are the most reliable. It is possible and wooden, but then you should think about how to protect them from premature rotting. Now we make a platform on the poles, on which our metal tank for heating water will be located. It is best to place the tank a little away from the shower, so it will be safer.

Now proceed to the plating of our shower room. What to use? You decide. This can be ordinary sheets of slate, boards, metal sheets and even profiled sheets, which, by the way, will last longer and will not suffer from moisture. The selected material is nailed directly to the posts, but it is also possible to make transversal beams beforehand, and to fix them to the walls of our summer shower.

In the shower cubicle we make a wooden floor with holes through which water will flow. Floor in the locker room do a little higher, so that during washing it is not covered with water. Wooden floor is short-lived, so if there is a desire, you can install a drain pan with a drain hole instead.

But here, it remains only to install the door. I think, with this you will not have problems. It can be made from the same materials as the shower wall, and then hang it. You can and simply confine yourself to a curtain of dense fabric.

That's all, summer shower with your own hands is ready. By the way, pay attention to the drain pit. The water in it should not stagnate, so it should be done at an incline, and the flow should be organized in a place that does not harm your buildings and does not turn your paths into puddles.