If you’re like us, we like to enjoy a nice shower where we aren’t water saving every drop, which is a big ask when camping. Well… not with the Joolca Shower Base and Pump unit.
I don’t recommend stuff for the sake of it… I bought it, used it for a while now, and highly rate it. I didn’t expect much, but it exceeded my expectations, especially due to the cost.
We’ve been using this for over six months on most of our monthly camping adventures (some we have showers available already), and it takes showering to a whole new level.
Why both? We have the pretty standard gas hot water system on the side of our camper. Joolca make a similar one, probably the same one, rebranded from the same factory. Who knows! Point is, whilst we can plugin to our camper water and pump, using the recirc pump with filter between the base and our input on the shower, allows us to enjoy a nice hot five or so minute shower, each, when we fill the base with clean accessible water.
Joolca like to say, 5 litres is all you need, but reality is not that nice. Yes, it works, but it sucks with 5 litres. We fill the base with atleast 10 litres, and if clean water (river, bore, etc) is available, then we fill the base to overflow, around 20 litres, which allows us both to shower, one after the other, not care about the small loss of water that doesn’t return back to the base, and if clean, the filter will hold up for both of us.
Look, the filter is not a big deal, use it or not on recirc, we use it… sometimes I may have to pull it, quickly flush it, then put it back in before I jump in after the wife.
Moral of the story, a little water goes a long way. We have used dirty creek water, and while it does work, the filter blocked within minutes and had to be cleaned, and as one showers and the water dirties, the filter is working harder on the second person, so clean water is best. Does not need to be potable, just clean.
The wife loves sitting on the toilet now, with a nice footing. Level it and away you go. Good bathroom floor and shower system. The pump is self-priming, so shuts off once primed and engages as you turn on the shower nozzle.
We were just away on the Tumut river, which had amazing clean water, and we enjoyed really long showers each night for a week.