Chapin International 20000 Garden Sprayer, 1-Gallon, Translucent White

Why we love it?

1-Gallon funnel-top, translucent tank for easy filling and cleaning Ergonomic handle for easy pumping and carrying

Some comments about this we saw on the web:

* /u/the_real_xuth on /r/BurningMan I have long hair. With the shower system I use I can wet, lather, rinse, condition and rinse again my hair (along with washing/rinsing the rest of my body) with less than a gallon of water. If I enlist a friend to help me I can use even less water.

Specifically I take lawn/garden pressure sprayer and replace the end with a sink sprayer. This gives me very simple, one handed control over a relatively low flow water sprayer that’s designed for rinsing soap off of things.

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——* /u/the_real_xuth on /r/BurningMan I’ve shared this here before and it’s worth mentioning here too.

I take lawn/garden pressure sprayer and replace the end with a sink sprayer. You’ll also need a fitting to connect them which is likely this but you can’t know for sure until you have the garden sprayer in hand. This gives me very simple, one handed control over a relatively low flow water sprayer that’s designed for rinsing soap off of things.

It’s simple, cheap, it doesn’t take any electricity and works really well. I can take a full shower including shampoo and conditioning long hair with less than a gallon of water.

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——* /u/the_real_xuth on /r/BurningMan Playa Shower

Instead of using a standard solar shower which

needs to be hung up above your head
has an annoying valve that’s difficult to use with one hand

Use a Garden sprayer (one gallon is sufficient but two might be a bit better) with the misting sprayer replaced with a kitchen sink sprayer.

To make this cut the sprayer itself off the garden sprayer hose.
Use a ¹⁄₄ inch male MIP to ¹⁄₄ inch barb fitting to connect the two.

You may or may not wish to use a solar shower bag for heating the water. Black pots and pans work as well or you can just heat a few cups of water to boiling on the stove and add it to a gallon of desert temperature water.

With this I can take complete showers with less than one gallon of water (including washing and conditioning long hair) since I only use water explicitly where and when it’s needed. If you want to be more efficient still, shower with a friend, since they can see and rinse your back with less water (or at least that’s the excuse I use).

Fountain Pump

Use a small fountain pump to transfer your melt water from your cooler to whatever you’re storing your shower water in. This is almost the only way of getting cooler water directly into a shower bag without spilling lots of it. You’ll also need some ¹⁄₄” inside diameter hose but it’s easiest to just buy 4 feet of that at home depot rather than buying a roll of it somewhere online.

Electric

My camp has a generator and a space for charging batteries. But I don’t like leaving my chargers or devices out where they are going to be playafied. So I use a small 12v battery (8Ah is fine, I use 18Ah batteries because that’s what I have) and either a small inverter or just use car chargers for all of my devices. Then I just have my 12v battery charger out in the open and most of those are designed for harsher environments and when that’s charged I take it into my tent to charge my camera batteries and the like.

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——* /u/the_real_xuth on /r/BurningMan Using a cheap kitchen sink sprayer nozzle mounted on a pressurized garden sprayer is, by far, the best and simplest low water shower tool I’ve ever used.

Garden Sprayer

Sink Sprayer

and the fitting to connect the two of them

I find that one gallon is plenty of water for a full shower including washing, rinsing and conditioning my shoulder blade length hair but you could be extravagant and get a 2 gallon sprayer instead.

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