What did you do to your van today?

I've never used our moho shower, to scared incase it runs out of water halfway through, or worse still something goes wrong and the van gets flooded out.
Everything else in the van sofar has been knackered so this would just be the next problem.
Interesting. I have never used a campsite shower or toilet and always use my on-board facilities.

If you have a way to monitor your water level, then you could easily see how much a 'typical' shower will use and decide it you have enough? My water supply (including Hot Tank) is 90L - If my tank showed 25% full I would not use it for a shower. 50% or more, no problem (display jumps by 25% steps from 0 to 100%)
 
Interesting. I have never used a campsite shower or toilet and always use my on-board facilities.

If you have a way to monitor your water level, then you could easily see how much a 'typical' shower will use and decide it you have enough? My water supply (including Hot Tank) is 90L - If my tank showed 25% full I would not use it for a shower. 50% or more, no problem (display jumps by 25% steps from 0 to 100%)
I will probably go round and strip / reseal everything 1st to be fair and then do some sort of trial at home.
Mine does the 25% steps water measurement aswell, although I think the hot water is on demand as I can only remember seeing 1 freshwater tank which is the ambient supply for everything. It's quite old - 2007 Swift / Ace Airstream.
I've also found some sort of hatch from underneath of vehicle which is directly under the shower so I will investigate this aswell as I supect It's an access to the drain hole assy in shower tray.
When I inspected what I could see of shower last year it looks like someone has gone over all the joins and original sealer with a thin layer of silicone, its very tidy and could be factory, neither can I see any previous evidence of damp but I would rather strip it all and reseal it properly just to be on the safe side due to its age as silicone does break down and like I say this 2nd layer could be there as a botch over.
The other thing with the shower is I dont think the bird could do a five minute shower, She has about 5 different bottles of potions that she HAS to use apparently, and her showers can last upto half an hour so She definitely will run the moho dry. 🙈
I do like to wildcamp although the council is making this difficult but every other night we have to site up just so the GF can use facilities.
 
Discovered a very slow way to fill the water tank in the Motorhome on Thursday evening....
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Took ages to get 48 Litres of bottled water in there with a funnel! (lots of the bottles not in the photo!)
But needs must and I managed to get a shower that night 🚿
We did the same on a Lidl Car Park 2 years ago - 2 Packs of 2 litre bottles, took ages as you say, but we were able to dispose of the plastic waste by filling the store's public plastic waste bin ... (y)

Steve
 
I will probably go round and strip / reseal everything 1st to be fair and then do some sort of trial at home.
Mine does the 25% steps water measurement aswell, although I think the hot water is on demand as I can only remember seeing 1 freshwater tank which is the ambient supply for everything. It's quite old - 2007 Swift / Ace Airstream.
I've also found some sort of hatch from underneath of vehicle which is directly under the shower so I will investigate this aswell as I supect It's an access to the drain hole assy in shower tray.
When I inspected what I could see of shower last year it looks like someone has gone over all the joins and original sealer with a thin layer of silicone, its very tidy and could be factory, neither can I see any previous evidence of damp but I would rather strip it all and reseal it properly just to be on the safe side due to its age as silicone does break down and like I say this 2nd layer could be there as a botch over.
The other thing with the shower is I dont think the bird could do a five minute shower, She has about 5 different bottles of potions that she HAS to use apparently, and her showers can last upto half an hour so She definitely will run the moho dry. 🙈
I do like to wildcamp although the council is making this difficult but every other night we have to site up just so the GF can use facilities.
I would guess that you have a Truma Ultrastore in your Swift? that would have a 10L tank within the Boiler. It is very important to ascertain this and if you do have hot water storage as come winter, if you don't drain it down (seperate drain for fresh and hot) you could end up with a major issue if the water freezes!

It is very unlikely any motorhomes except possibly very high end ones have a true "hot water on demand" system as the amount of power required to instantly heat cold water to be hot enough for washing is extremely high and beyond the capability of the supplies in a standard Motorhome.
Even the domestic "on demand" hot water systems have a small storage tank as a buffer. On my last camper conversion, I fitted a domestic "on demand" Ariston Hot Water Heater - the type that you might find in a workshop or industrial facility to give you local hot water where there is no plumbed hot water and no storage - but even that "on demand" system had a 10L tank within it

Most people seem to like to do the "navy wash" where you only turn the water on to wet and rinse yourself, and off while soaping and actual washing to save water. I personally usually have a normal shower :)
 
I would guess that you have a Truma Ultrastore in your Swift? that would have a 10L tank within the Boiler. It is very important to ascertain this and if you do have hot water storage as come winter, if you don't drain it down (seperate drain for fresh and hot) you could end up with a major issue if the water freezes!

It is very unlikely any motorhomes except possibly very high end ones have a true "hot water on demand" system as the amount of power required to instantly heat cold water to be hot enough for washing is extremely high and beyond the capability of the supplies in a standard Motorhome.
Even the domestic "on demand" hot water systems have a small storage tank as a buffer. On my last camper conversion, I fitted a domestic "on demand" Ariston Hot Water Heater - the type that you might find in a workshop or industrial facility to give you local hot water where there is no plumbed hot water and no storage - but even that "on demand" system had a 10L tank within it

Most people seem to like to do the "navy wash" where you only turn the water on to wet and rinse yourself, and off while soaping and actual washing to save water. I personally usually have a normal shower :)
I soap the shower walls and rotate slowly; saves water for just rinsing and keeps the shower wall clean ... Of course, *when* I lose weight, I will have to resort to traditional methods of showering ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
I soap the shower walls and rotate slowly; saves water for just rinsing and keeps the shower wall clean ... Of course, *when* I lose weight, I will have to resort to traditional methods of showering ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve
custom fit cubicle, huh :)
 
I would guess that you have a Truma Ultrastore in your Swift? that would have a 10L tank within the Boiler. It is very important to ascertain this and if you do have hot water storage as come winter, if you don't drain it down (seperate drain for fresh and hot) you could end up with a major issue if the water freezes!

It is very unlikely any motorhomes except possibly very high end ones have a true "hot water on demand" system as the amount of power required to instantly heat cold water to be hot enough for washing is extremely high and beyond the capability of the supplies in a standard Motorhome.
Even the domestic "on demand" hot water systems have a small storage tank as a buffer. On my last camper conversion, I fitted a domestic "on demand" Ariston Hot Water Heater - the type that you might find in a workshop or industrial facility to give you local hot water where there is no plumbed hot water and no storage - but even that "on demand" system had a 10L tank within it

Most people seem to like to do the "navy wash" where you only turn the water on to wet and rinse yourself, and off while soaping and actual washing to save water. I personally usually have a normal shower :)
I soap the shower walls and rotate slowly; saves water for just rinsing and keeps the shower wall clean ... Of course, *when* I lose weight, I will have to resort to traditional methods of showering ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve
custom fit cubicle, huh :)
Naw, just one that I have 'grown into' [like my mother used to promise that I would when she bought my duffle coats ...] :ROFLMAO:. I am the living embodiment of thedefinition of obesity - 'a lot of good food gone to waist'

Steve

Steve
 
I soap the shower walls and rotate slowly; saves water for just rinsing and keeps the shower wall clean ... Of course, *when* I lose weight, I will have to resort to traditional methods of showering ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve

Naw, just one that I have 'grown into' [like my mother used to promise that I would when she bought my duffle coats ...] :ROFLMAO:. I am the living embodiment of thedefinition of obesity - 'a lot of good food gone to waist'


Steve

Steve
This is like choosing a certain make of clothes as 'their' L clothes fit whereas the other makers L sizes are too small (so obviously made wrong :) )

My mum always gave me my older siblings hand-me-downs to 'grow into'. I wouldn't have minded, but pleated dresses had gone out of fashion by the time they fitted :D
 
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I would guess that you have a Truma Ultrastore in your Swift? that would have a 10L tank within the Boiler. It is very important to ascertain this and if you do have hot water storage as come winter, if you don't drain it down (seperate drain for fresh and hot) you could end up with a major issue if the water freezes!

It is very unlikely any motorhomes except possibly very high end ones have a true "hot water on demand" system as the amount of power required to instantly heat cold water to be hot enough for washing is extremely high and beyond the capability of the supplies in a standard Motorhome.
Even the domestic "on demand" hot water systems have a small storage tank as a buffer. On my last camper conversion, I fitted a domestic "on demand" Ariston Hot Water Heater - the type that you might find in a workshop or industrial facility to give you local hot water where there is no plumbed hot water and no storage - but even that "on demand" system had a 10L tank within it

Most people seem to like to do the "navy wash" where you only turn the water on to wet and rinse yourself, and off while soaping and actual washing to save water. I personally usually have a normal shower :)
Your more than likely correct.
There is a blue and a red toggle valve that both drain out of the same drain pipe which I opened both up anyway last winter so I guess this covered both sides of the frost drain down.
Were totally new to this motorhome buisness so slowly learning.
I was thinking of some kind of water induced soap foam dispenser could be useful which then switches over to water for the rinse. 🤔 🤣
 
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