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Favorite Comment: Fixer Mike says, “Upgrading to the Rubbermaid tub WITH the jets was just not in the budget.”
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I ain’t payin’ the water bill this month. Just try and make me!
Egad! I’d hate to see what they’re using for a toilet!
since they are collecting all of the ‘shower’ water in the tub at the bottom, they could actually reuse the water again to manually flush a toilet.
As long as they don’t get confused and start using the toilet water for the shower, they should be OK.
Getting that jug of water up there–and then avoiding getting bonked on the head when it falls back down… I don’t know. This doesn’t look brilliant to me.
Can be assembled and re-assembled in three easy steps.
Or one. Burn it.
The politically correct and environmentally friendly shower using recycled items with water conservation in mind. Reduce, Reuse, Recycled water.
This must be a part of that hillbilly movement in modern interior decorating. I can just hear the realtor explaining it now… “In this room we have a fully functional hillbilly shower complete with fancy shower curtain for those too modest to bathe in front of the guests within the dining room.”
21st Century Squathouse Design
Reminds me of the “portable” shower my family used in the late 70s / early 80s while camping. It was basically a big black water bottle. You filled it with lake water and set it out in the summer sun, esp. on a rock, all day, and then hung it up on a tree. There was a hose attached. It was nice to have some warm water but eventually we gave up on it b/c who are you kidding, camping (esp. wilderness camping, which we did) makes you stinky.
We had one of those too. And a cleaned out bleach-bottle with a golf-tee stuck into the base to use as a ‘sink’ to wash our hands with. Worked pretty well.
Upgrading to the Rubbermaid tub WITH the jets was just not in the budget.
I can’t imagine the bathroom that would make a person build this unit.
I assumed it was like a dorm room without a private bathroom/shower, and they didn’t want to use the public shower with everyone else.
Do they still have those? When I see those 60′s college campus movies, I can’t imagine getting up every day and shaving/washing with twenty other individuals in a jumbo sized bathroom.
I graduated 9 years ago – I had a private bathroom my jr & sr years and 1/2 my soph year but my freshman dorm and first soph dorm had community bathrooms. Not like high school community showers but 3 shower stalls, 3 toilet stalls, 3 urinals (we put potted plants in them on the girls floors) and a bunch of sinks for like 30 kids. I had early morning classes and the bathrooms were busy that time of day (really girls, 20 minute showers when there’s a line and 45 minutes of primping for a lecture class?) but most kids had afternoon classes and I was done so I usually showered after lunch – I got the cleanest showers too b/c the cleaning crew was usually there around 1!
My dorms where either old hotels (frsh/soph + jnr) or a university-owned 3-story apartment building (snr), so I got real lucky. But I spent one summer session in the “main” freshman one… two bathrooms per floor, 6 of each (shower, sink, toilets) each. At least no wait for the shower in summer, and cold water was good since there was no A/C.
(The bathrooms were in the center of the building — it was shaped like a can, and the rooms where like tiny pie wedges around the outside. Twenty BogusPoints to who can guess my alma mater based on this.)
This actually sounds like a really logical approach to dorm design. I’m Canadian, so I can’t even guess as to where this was. So I must ask, where was it?
Moorhead State?
When done, pour lower tub back into upper jug.
First time I’ve seen one of these indoors, but I’ve seen similarly hacked up portable versions of this type of thing used for camping.
Best one I saw had several large water tanks (perhaps 60 gallons total) all attached together and fit one a rack of 2×4′s. This rack sat on top of a standing shower (also made out of 2×4′s). The unit would be filled up in the morning and left to heat in the sun during the day. At sunset, a short, but warm, shower was available. Piping on the several containers was all connected via PVC, and refilling was accomplished via a simple garden hose running to the top piping on the thing and held there with zip ties.
Admittedly, I believe that the knowledge that they were standing directly underneath 600+ pounds of water on a bunch of rickety 2×4′s was probably unknown by most of the people using it. Nevertheless, the unit did work well enough.
Shower hack in the dining room – FTW!
I spent a lot of years as a seasonal forester and park ranger. If you’ve ever encountered the showers in some of the crew houses or the temporary ones in fire camp you’ll know this can be a desirable alternative. The fact that it is set up inside a house makes me guess that they’re still remodeling the bathrooms. We used a 30-gallon galvanized tub for bathing for several weeks while I put up the tile surround in the hall bathroom in this house. It was one of those move in before the remodel/hold down a full-time-job while doing the remodel situations.
Looks like a dorm room to me…
Fancy Cousin Jeb uses *bottled* water to shower. Thinks he’s too good for us.
hey, whatever keeps you clean! It’s an effort in the right direction. Some people are NAASSSTTYYY and don’t even try!
It’s still a hot mess and I’d be terrified to use it but I would if ther was NO OTHER WAY to get clean.
I see a roll of toilet paper on the far right…wonder what the toilet looks like? If this is a dorm room, then what could they POSSIBLY be using!?!?!
Actually, this is an industrial strength enema bag
So how does the water get heated? You sure this isn’t an really big enema for some really fat person???
Or how about a really big douche for a big.. well… you get the idea..
Either way, the water would still have to heated up. That might be the purpose of being next to the window. But a 5-minute shower would take 20 gallons, and a water cooler bottle just has 5 gallons. So it’s going to have to be a quick low-power shower.
That’s a “Hollywood shower” for sure!
Navy shower:
Wet down, turn off water, soap/shampoo and scrub, rinse.
Takes less than 5 gallons or 5 minutes.
The catch tub doesn’t look very large, so I reckon the person this is made for is pretty thin.
BRRRRRRRRR. Nothing puts me in a worse mood than a cold shower.
Is that the deluxe 60-gallon basin?
I’d love to see what plan B is when someone takes a shower, gets all soaped in and the water runs out.
Soooo, do you have to stand in your dirty water until you finish?
If you’re that dirty to begin with, you need more than a kludged shower setup.
available exclusively at Ikea’s south of the Mason-Dixon
i always wanted a show IN the dinning room. quick rinse before eating.
I wonder if it drains to the cistern in the apartment below.
I venture to guess into the bottle for the shower in the apartment below.
@ BigMal27
oooh! oooh! oooh! I know this one!
were you in LINCOLN tower or MORROW?
i was in Lincoln. 23rd floor. the football team lived on the 17th. they regularly broke the elevator every friday night. once a month all THREE elevators broke and we had to walk up all 23 stories.
when i went, they were not doubles…each pie piece had SIXTEEN people (one couch, one bathroom, 4 rooms with 4 people each bunk)
I’m guessing the water does not get heated. Cold shower! (((shiver)))
Got some ice cubes with that shower.
@BigMal27
You went to Minnesota State University Moorhead
from where is located, i think its a new model of dishwasher.
it’s still better than the shower in my first apartment.
Look on the bright side… You never need to worry about having too much space taken by your tub…
Unlike the above setup I do have regular water supply and floor drain access but I am floor space challenged. I would like to have a removable plastic tub maybe with a whole for water to flow out of the basin via a hose near the bottom of the pan that I can place in the floor drain hole so water can continue to run without filling up the tub. At the end of the shower just remove the tub to regain access to the needed floor space. This small shower space is between the outside bathroom wall and the open kitchen area with no wall. This complex shower space also triples as an entry way to the living room. Obviously I can’t leave the tub in this showcase space. The tub need not be very tall but wide enough not to trip on the sides. Sorta’ like a small baby wadding pool with that I can drill hole in the side for drain hose.Ideally if the tub were half moon shaped made with a hing so I could pull it up to stand against the shower head wall and then pull it back down into place to re-use. Anyone knowing of such a tub or work around tub please get back to me.
Rudy