Project: Outdoor Shower

Aim: Re-build collapsed shower to be functional and efficient

Equipment provided/found/available:

• 'The Dragon'- fire heated cob outdoor water heater
• Green mesh
• Eucy poles, cut/found- long and straight
• Bonfire
• Lime, buckets, wheel barrow etc

Method:

• Leveled ground
• Worked out direction of spiral and laid it out with hose pipe
• Lit the bonfire to clear land (clear felled pine covering hill), used some half rotten poles and newly cut poles (from areas needing to be cleared) and burnt 1 to 2 metres along the bottom to avoid rotting
• Rock base foundation. Collected rocks from nearby
• Dug holes around edge 30cm apart using spike. Fit in poles, sometimes using wedges so they remained sturdy and vertical
• Mixed lime with sand and clay (1:5:2) in wheelbarrow
• Covered rock flooring with lime mix, smoothed then sponged off
• Attached plumbing from The Dragon
• Attached green mesh as screen
• Attached bark/cork as shelf, made bench/hooks for clothes
• Dug swale below to catch water run off

Permaculture Aspects:

• Waste water irrigates tomatoes/herbs planted in gutter around shower
• Swale retains grey water run off
• Next summer's plan is to attach black pipe as roofing to solar heat the water and asd shade.

floor is complete, now inserting poles



Digging the swale below



The Dragon water heater, with the shower and swale.
House in the background



Finished shower with plumbing attached