How to Install an Outdoor Shower

In this video, This Old House deputy art director John W. Taylor explains how to install an outdoor shower.


Steps:

1. Have a steel fabricator weld together a circular frame to serve as the shower stall.
2. Attach cedar pickets to the steel frame with 1 ¼-inch stainless steel screws.
3. Stand the shower stall on the brick floor and mark the location of each leg on the brick.
4. Move aside the shower stall and use a masonry wet drill to bore a hole at each mark through the brick and into the concrete pad below.
5. Use a sponge to sop water from each hole.
6. Set the shower stall into place with each leg in a hole.
7. Pour the first application of anchoring cement into the hole around each leg; clean up excess cement with a wet sponge.
8. Mix up second, thicker application of cement and press it into the holes around each leg; wipe off excess cement with a wet sponge.
9. Drill a 5/8-inch-diameter hole through the cedar enclosure and extend the hot- and cold-water pipes into the shower.
10. Attach the shower valve and install the riser; connect the showerhead and handles.
11. Solder the connections between the new copper pipes and the existing water-supply lines; be sure to include a spigot for draining the lines.

Where to Find It:

Garden Iron
P.O. BOX 186
25 Middlesex Turnpike
Essex, CT 06426
860.767.9917
www.garden.com

Wood shower image courtesy of:
Crystal-Inn Massage & Spa
100 Joseph Thibault
Mont-Tremblant, Quebec
J8E 2G4
www.crystal-inn.com