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Bathroom showers
There are many types of bathroom showers, and
many options for creating them, depending upon what you want in your
shower and how fancy or simple you want to go with your design. For
instance, there are showers that you can take hiking and camping with you
into the wilderness (or for your kids to use if they are pretending to
camp out, using the back yard in the suburbs for their simulated
wilderness experience) that are large plastic containers for water, not
unlike the ones used in the military. You just hang the full bag of water
from the branch of a tree and then open the valve on the attached plastic
or rubber pipe that sometimes has a conventionally shaped shower head on
it, and you stand under it and take your shower. When the water runs out
you just refill it from a nearby stream or other source, and if you want a
warm shower, you hang the plastic container in the sun and wait until the
sun has had time to warm the water before showering.
Other kinds of bathroom showers can be improvised using milk jugs or other
containers, for example, when you need a shower but are not near running
water. For instance, many people who travel on the cheap with carry a jug
of water and take a bucket shower from the jug, while standing on a patch
of grass or on a platform made from a wooden fork lift pallet, and this
works fine for a quick and easy shower. One fellow we know used the
automatic car washes that accept quarters and then let you use a shower
wand to spray your car, to take showers, when he used to travel across the
country on a tight budget, but once he was stopped by the local police and
repremanded for showering in a public place, so that idea is only for
those with a modicum of tolerance for risk and adventure and outlaw
attitude.
Most of us prefer to use conventional bathroom showers, and sometimes this
is a problem even for city dwellers with nice apartments and plenty of
running indoor plumbing, because some flats and houses are only equipped
with a bath tub and not a shower. But years ago this problem was cleverly
addressed by some Scandanavian inventors, who introduced a simple and
inexpensive system for making a tub into a shower. They sold a design that
you can now find all over the world, for sale in any hardware or home
improvement center that sells plumbing fixtures. You can even find them in
department stores.
The improvised types of bathroom showers are basically made from a hose
that attaches to your tub's faucet. The other end of the hose has a shower
head on it, and you can either use these devices as a hand held shower, or
if you want both hands free, you can attach the shower head permanently to
a wall beside the tub, or to the ceiling over head, and then you have a
shower converted from a standard bath tub.
For these and other ideas about bathroom showers, just ask your local
retailer who sells bath accessories, and they can give you plenty of help.
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