Enclosed trailer plumbing

[bushhog750]

Has anyone put a shower in their enclosed trailer? If so I'm curious on how you ran your hot water heater, pumps, plumbing and electric. Is there anything you wish you had done different?

 

[5BrothersFabrication]

I'd find a shitty, used RV and strip it, scrap what's left. Like a 318 Dahj van camper. Guarunteed low miles before it quit, so plumbing may be near-mint.

 

[grcthird]

I'd find a shitty, used RV and strip it, scrap what's left. Like a 318 Dahj van camper. Guarunteed low miles before it quit, so plumbing may be near-mint.

Damn it. I have an 89 Dodge 360 camper van with 38,000 miles I'm putting heads on in the shop right now, what a gigantic pile of chit, even Hagan asked "Who would own this?" laughing1

You can probably find a cheap camping trailer from 80's to tear apart and use, really all you need is a shower pan, water heater and a holding tank from one. I'd use cpvc to plumb it, and some frp panels glued to the walls. Get fancy and put a ceiling vent in to keep steam down.

The main thing to think about is will you be using it hooked up at a park RV spot or stand alone, self sufficient like. The latter will require a lot more parts to make it work.

 

[5BrothersFabrication]

Damn it. I have an 89 Dodge 360 camper van with 38,000 miles I'm putting heads on in the shop right now, what a gigantic pile of chit, even Hagan asked "Who would own this?" laughing1

You can probably find a cheap camping trailer from 80's to tear apart and use, really all you need is a shower pan, water heater and a holding tank from one. I'd use cpvc to plumb it, and some frp panels glued to the walls. Get fancy and put a ceiling vent in to keep steam down.

The main thing to think about is will you be using it hooked up at a park RV spot or stand alone, self sufficient like. The latter will require a lot more parts to make it work.

Good call.

 

[bushhog750]

I would prefer it be self sufficient. I've looked at a few tankless water heaters so I can just pump from holding tank straight thru water heater and out of the shower head. But I haven't gotten down to see if my current generator will power a 110 water heater but it looks like I'll need to step up to a larger generator or buy a separate generator to power only the water heater. But I think that would take a lot of plumbing and work out of it.

 

[Pumpkin]

Re:

Get a propane tankless water heater

 

[wont work]

Re:

Get a propane tankless water heater

This and no power is needed if you get one with a battery ignitor. Also water will get way hotter than you want

 

[bushhog750]

I actually found a propane fired tankless that appears to be the way to go.

 

[Sawzall]

I use a camping style battery ignition water heater mounted outside behind the landing gear. I installed a 3 way ball valve before the shower head to bypass water back to the holding tank so there is instant hot shower water.