Porta potti vs Shower/toilet

[wavery]

We don't have a shower or potty in our PUP, but I was curious about something. How long does it typically take for a 6 Gal. water heater to refill/reheat? Seems like that small amount should heat up pretty quickly.

So, I guess I'm asking is running out of hot water that big a deal when you can have more hot water in a pretty reasonable amount of time? That's assuming that you can refill quickly, but that assumption could be 100% wrong.

That's a good question. It takes about 5-10 minutes for the water heater to heat up. You would be hard pressed to run out of hot water with just 2 people showering. If you had 4 people, you may have to wait 5-10 minutes for the second 2 to get hot water.

I can't wait to take a shower in our NTU camper this weekend  :-() . I'm a pretty big guy and that's a pretty small shower in that Trailmanor. It should be interesting. I lived on a sailboat for 14 years so this shouldn't be a big deal. Although the shower in our sailboat was nearly as big as the shower in our house.

Anything's gotta be better than CG showers though.

[ScouterMom]

Most of the Wisconsin State parks we love to camp in have pretty decent /clean shower houses and toilet facilities - or I won't camp in them!  

But I did buy a bucket porta-potti (never used before I bought it) at a garage sale, and a lightweight potti/shower tent to take on a canoe trip a few years back.  we haven't used it with the camper, but we do now carry it IN the camper, just in case someone needs it.  We had one lo-o-ong night where it poured cats and dogs all night, and Paul was up all night waiting for a lull in the rain to run to the latrine.  Rain on canvas makes me sleep like a rock! and it never let up all night long.   I spent many years at scout camps with dark and spidery pit toilets - so I have a well-trained bladder!

The shower tent and porta potti - which we HAVE used on canoe camping trips (no facilities at all - you have to carry everything  in and out)  was pretty sturdy and would probably work fine for a shower, though I've never actually tried it.    We didn't need a 'shower' while canoe-camping - you could just jump in the river!

I would not like the maintenece required of built-in facilities in the camper.  But I would not mind having an outside shower hook up - if only to rinse sandy feet, or toohook up an outside shower if we decided to boondock.

[tlhdoc]

I would not like the maintenece required of built-in facilities in the camper.

The maintenance for the cassette potty is to wipe it down with a Clorox wipe or two, and once or twice a year put some olive oil on the flapper to lubricate the gaskets.  For the shower it is simply wiping it down with a cleaning wipe.  Neither one is very much to do.  A lot less work than cleaning the bathroom at home.