Hello!
For those who don't know me,
my name is Eric.
In this video,
I will explain how to do a simple,
easy and inexpensive exterior shower cabinet
for a van conversion,
a suv conversion
or car camping.
By inexpensive,
I mean less than 30$.
This is an insanely cheap price
compared to systems sold on the market,
some costing over 400$.
My system is fully tested,
as I have been using it for several years.
In a previous video,
I explained the absolute importance of
having a shower as part of
your van conversion set up.
I recommend that you watch this video
to hear more on the importance of a shower.
Van life does not mean staying dirty and miserable!
In another video,
I also explain how to build a solar shower with baffles
to restrain the flow of water while you brake.
This phenomenon,
and how to reduce it,
is well explained in that video.
So check it out!
Now,
let's get to that shower cabinet project!
Here's what you need for this small project...
2 simple thin straight bars
4 small pieces of wood
4 Velcro straps
1 booth lace
1 shower curtain set
shower curtain hooks
a few feet of nylon rope
some multi-purpose clips
a few rubber suction cups.
Here's the end result with
the material properly assembled...
For the 2 simple thin straight bars,
I used 2 screen bars that cost only about 5$ each.
I didn't even cut them.
I used them as sold.
They measure 48 inches.
Those screen bars are used to build
a screen frame for a window screen.
They are sturdy and light weight.
I added to the bars,
2 small pieces of wood,
to help clear the plug's thickness
at the end of the roof rack bars.
To fix the piece of wood to the bar,
I simply used Duck Tape.
If you do not have such stoppers
with the plugs at the end of the roof rack bars,
you do not need to add those wood blocks.
At the end of each screen bars,
I drilled a hole big enough
to easily slide a boot lace into it
and tie that boot lace with a knot.
That's it!
That's about all the construction work there is to do!
What is now left,
is to show you how to assemble
the rest of the material,
to take that private nature shower.
Each screen bar,
is temporarily fixed to the roof rack bars,
with two Velcro straps.
Then,
I simply install the shower curtains on the screen bars.
With the boot lace,
I close the entrance of the shower cabinet.
A shower curtain on each side,
with an overlap in the middle, for that full privacy.
The multipurpose clips can now be used to,
for one,
close the entrance of the cabinet,
and two,
to pull the corners of the curtains
to avoid having the shower curtain flapping in the wind.
For the same purpose,
and to assure privacy,
I made a few sets of multipurpose clips
and suction cups tied together
with a small piece of rope.
Those sets are to keep
the shower curtain by the van's body.
Look at that nice shower cabinet!
With such a cabinet you can take your shower
wherever you want, almost!
No one can see you,
not even as a Chinese shadow.
When you see videos of people in bathing suits,
showing how convenient their exterior shower is,
but with no cabinet,
just ask yourself where the heck
they go take that shower,
in their bathing suits when they are not at the beach!
And how do they wash themselves under their bathing suits
When you are gone for weeks,
you cannot half wash yourself every time!
This I know from years of experience.
Donít forget to watch my video about that subject!
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