Tips for choosing the right outdoor shower

You can easily picture yourself in a swimsuit on the patio or in the yard this summer, soaking up the sun, relaxing, and enjoying the breeze.. but let’s be honest; this scene would be even better with a shower to cool down in because when the sun is shining, it’s essential.

We want you to consider giving your outdoor space that special touch that a shower adds. Because having a swimming pool isn’t always necessary for a refreshing swim. In this article, we provide a thorough overview of all the tips you should remember when picking the right outdoor shower. From styles and varieties, to where to place it, to materials, to suggestions..

How do you choose an outdoor shower?

Because there are different models that you can integrate into your outdoor space, be it a patio, a terrace or a garden. For Joan Llongueras, creative director of Coblonal Interiorisme, the answer starts from the lines of the project. To specify them we always start from a list of adjectives and a title for the project which will help us decide on materials, finishes and also its location.

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The function of an outdoor shower, unlike an indoor shower, is practically revitalizing and invigorating. Although it is common to have one in outdoor spaces with a swimming pool, we want you to incorporate it into your terrace or courtyard for swimming on hot days. It will be perfect especially if you are used to going to the beach.

The first thing to choose for an outdoor shower, even if it is almost obvious, is that it is beautiful. If you take care of the garden in all the details and the shower, which is a very visible element, you don’t take care of it, it weakens the rest of the design and the next thing to consider is the use. Showers in homes where there are children can be used to have a nice soap cleaning session at the end of the day. It is important to provide for the installation of hot water or, almost better, a shower with thermal deposition, which are not so beautiful, but very useful.

Types of outdoor showers

1. On the wall

These are outdoor showers made up of a tap that is installed on the wall. For this reason, the water intakes are brought to the installation point through partitions. The material of these taps is specific for the outdoors. It resembles indoor bathroom showers. This type of outdoor shower, even if it requires work and arrangement, can be integrated into the furniture in suggestive corners, installed on wooden lattices, on bases of other materials that delimit the space, positioning elements that give privacy…

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If you are thinking about this type of outdoor shower you may be wondering at what height it is installed. The standing ones have a more or less standard size of around 2 m. The wall ones are positioned in the point you decide. You should take into account the height of the people who will use it, but 2m is a good position. Joan Llongueras recommends thinking about the idea that you can easily handle the sprinkler by hand and that it is a foot above your head.

2. Column fixed to the ground

How to choose this type of outdoor shower? It is fixed with screws to the ground directly or on a specific base. There are those connected to a water supply on the ground or those that do not require work – just fixing – which connect directly to a pipe in the back and this to the tap you have outside. They can be solar, which incorporate a tank into their structure to store water and heat it so that when you take a shower you have hot water. An outdoor shower usually only has cold water (which always comes out hot at first due to the water accumulating in the structure).

Complete your outdoor shower with a base that prevents slipping. It can be made of heat-treated or cultivated tropical wood and stainless or galvanized steel. We like that warm contrast between technology and nature.

Among this type of outdoor showers we find tripod showers, the cheapest and quickest to install, although perhaps the least aesthetic. It is a stand that rests on a triangular leg (hence the name) and features a tap that connects to the water via a hose. The advantage is that you can take them from one place to another in the garden, patio or terrace or you can store them in winter. More casual models are recommended, even those that can be transported for optional use in different areas of the garden or attic, depending on the orientation, a party, etc.

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3. Flat or floor-mounted outdoor showers

This system may be the least popular, but it has become another option, quite easily visually. These are platforms that rest directly on the ground, square, rectangular or circular. It connects to a pipe and this to a water intake and lets the water flow from that base structure upwards only by activating it with the foot.

4. Other rudimentary outdoor shower systems.

It is common to see outdoor showers with domestic, almost DIY systems. Depending on the style of your exterior, this simplicity may be right for you. A system that involves a bucket of water that is poured over by pulling a string is sufficient. You can edit it so that it fills automatically if you want more convenience.

Materials for outdoor showers

It is essential that the components are stainless steel for the exterior and, if we use wood for the base or wall, that they are resistant. Materials must be designed for easy maintenance outdoors where conditions – resulting from the impact of the sun and temperature variations – can be crucial to the durability of the installation and the beauty of the finish.

However, Coblonal Interiorisme invites us to stop and think about the materials of outdoor showers because they can also be in accordance with the style of the patio, terrace or garden. A rural house is not the same thing (we could look for an old-fashioned look where wood predominates, indicates the partner and creative director); of a contemporary terrace (where straight lines and white fit best). There are outdoor shower faucets in copper, galvanized, matte black, gold – like the Bloomingville image above – or polished chrome.

Tips for choosing an outdoor shower

Here you not only have to take into account where to place the shower depending on where you go on the beach, have a beach chair, or where the deck or deck receives the most sunlight; but from a more practical point of view it is necessary to have the exhaust. The proximity to the discharge point and its slopes will make it advisable to install it in one place or another. Whether it is to allow the rapid evacuation of water or to avoid slips and rivers on the terrace. It is relatively simple to move the water outlet through pipes, but it is very expensive and delicate to modify an existing downspout.

In a terrace or terrace the drainage situation is vitally important, in a vegetated garden the drainage is not all that abundant, although over-watering can cause problems for some plants.

Furthermore, emphasize the privacy of the outdoor shower when deciding on its location: although it is a problem that depends very much on the person, its location within the possibilities offered by a terrace, a terrace or a garden are different and varied. It is good to maintain a minimum of privacy, because we hardly behave the same way if we feel observed. It’s certainly not a question of closing the shower completely, but we can play with the vegetation itself and the pre-existing volumes to avoid the glances that end up annoying us.