Outdoor Solar Shower: Nothing Between Me and the Sun but a Smile – Part 3

Reader Contribution by Andrew Odom
Published on June 16, 2010
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The location of the shower stall is within 6 feet of the actual well source that feeds the sink in the shop as well as our garden hose. However, there are two right angle curves that had to be takem into account as well as a split so that the shower could run without disrupting our garden watering system. The hot water then had to be fed into the hose so it could sit and heat and be ready to flow on command.

So, the breakdown is this. Water comes up from the well and feeds into a smaller PVC pipe taking a break at a ‘T’ split (which is buried now and can’t be seen) to run in one direction for the shower and in another for the garden irrigation and shop indoor sink. Now, if you follow the water through the ‘T’ and around the corner of the shop (still buried underground) you will see a PVC pipe coming up, splitting at another ‘T’ (this is where the cold water feeds into the shower system), and still continuing to travel upwards to feed into the black polypipe where it then completes the water circuit after traveling through almost 200 ft. of heated, black, poly-goodness. At that point, the person in the shower only needs to use the hot and cold handles as they would an indoor shower and they can mix appropriately what they would like for their shower.

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