JenniferK
Huntley, IL
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I bought this for when we go on trips where there is no shower facilities or full hook up sites. Thought a good way to extend use of gray tank would be to take showers outside. Got a second Oxygenic showerhead to increase water pressure, shutoff valve to conserve water and extension hose to give more lead space. Then got the Northwest Territory double shower and changing room. Put it up tonight to take a look at it. It's exactly what I wanted - except for one (major) problem. It is really meant to be used with a solar or similar type shower. I planned to use the outdoor shower from my TT. There is no way to get the shower head in there. I thought I would slip it in through a small opening I would leave at the top of where the door zips closed. But unfortunately, that won't work because it zips from the top to the corner away from the shower side and then with a second zipper at the floor to the corner away from the shower room side. I would need to extend the hose quite a bit more and snake it along the floor of the tent to make this work. Or else make an access hole, which I really don't feel comfortable doing.
Does anyone have this and use it with their outside shower? How did you modify it to work? If only the zipper closed in the opposite direction, this would be perfect!
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ernestfortier
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It should be easy to extend your shower hose as far as you would want. Looks like a neat unit though.
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Vapor_Trails
Yucaipa, CA
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Sorry. I can't help you with the outside shower. Ours has been used once in the five years we've owned our TT. And that was me using it just last Turkey Day. I don't know why, I just felt like stripping down to my birthday suit (fret not, this was deep in the Sonoran Desert, many miles away from anyone that otherwise would be scarred for life. And the day before any others in our party showed up.  ) and taking an outdoor shower.
In any case, curing the grey water tank fill-up problem was an easy fix for me. I bought the three things below. Can dump in a bush out in the wilderness, or in a campground bathroom.
And this. Actually, I'd previously bought a grey hose when I bought a Flush King.
And one of these. Any container will work, though. Just remember not to use it for fresh water...
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kknowlton
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Or you could just get a Sun Shower and use it that way. I don't think they're real expensive.
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symbasden
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If it were me I would just cut a hole in the mesh roof big enough to get the shower head through. Be sure to burn the edges of the mesh so they don't fray.
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JIH
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Something else to be destroyed by wind when you decide you can leave it up while going on a short hike. 
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rondynowincomfort
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Saw that in the Kmart ad this week. Think it is a cool idea. Besides using for showers,seems to me it would be great for changing after swimming instead of having everyone run in and out of the tt.
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Diabs
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if you make a small hole to allow the shower head to come in(near where the shower head would be)...you can buy a grommet from wal-mart or HD to en-circle the cut fabric, snap it together(one on the outside of the fabric and one from the inside of the fabric) and really wouldn't be that hard to do.
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