Showering in the caravan

About  5  seconds  before  the  first  ear-splitting  scream  I  reckon  !!

I like my shower fairly warm. If you boost the water temperature before using, I find you get approximately 4 minutes in winter and up to 6 minutes in summer, due to the variation in temperature of the cold mixing water. 

Only have a nice long shower on a service pitch though. Otherwise there is too much humping of water / waste.☹️

Don't know how long it will last time or hot water wise, but most of us shower the navy way. Wet, turn off, soap up, rinse. It's amazing how little water it uses. Our tank holds 10 litres and that's not enough to have a 'normal' continual water running shower. A warm bathroom makes up for on and off water 😉

Just got back from being away off grid (gas / 12v) Alde heater, for 3 nights and after a long bike ride both days showering was no problem. as above wet, soap then rinse, wife had a shower first then give the water 20mins to heat up, then had my shower; no problems. 

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We have used shower in our van almost daily when away for at least twenty years, you soon get used to soaping up, rinsing off, using less water than at home. I have long hair, so this is a trial need more water to wash rinse condition rinse, but I can do it in van at a push. With a modern spacious bathroom and heater system it ought to be a doddle. 

Just think of the fetching of water as part of a daily bit of exercise, unless you are physically unable or just cannot be bothered, then it isn't really an onerous task. At least not for the first 20 years, anyway! Using your van shower could save you lots of money on site fees, as you won't be so tied to those with more facilities that usually cost more.

 

agreed, the water fetching and carrying would make it more hard work in a caravan unless on a serviced pitch.

we carry siffiecient water for around five days 'off grid' and would use our shower (for example) when using a THS (temp holiday site) with no facilities.

with regard to the actual showering process, our Truma boiler carries 10 ltr of hot water, and mixed with around 4 of cold, will give 14 ltr of hot showering water, more than enough for two quickish showers.

IIRC, the Alde boiler contans 8 ltr of hot water, which needs (say) 3 ltr of cold to get the right temp....this gives 11 ltrs for showering so around 3/4 of the capacity, so far more marginal than the Truma.

obviously, it can still be done, as posters have managed it, but requires discipline.....or both together

If your old enough just try to remember what it was like before mains water was installed in your street, alternatively trial and error sounds a good solution

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We, like Another David, are also away 120 nights in the caravan, but within the UK. We mainly use CC sites and AS sites. Probably 4 times a year we are on non facility sites for 5 night stays. We happily use caravan facilities and with two of us and a 40 litre Aquaroll no problem. Two showers we could do using 20 litres but probably use about 25+ litres