Hot Water Ideas

[tinkadill]

For free hot water for washing up & showers fill as many 2 litre bottles as will fit on top of your dash (beer & cider ones are usually dark coloured & a good excuse for drinking more) On a sunny day it,ll be scalding by late afternoon. Remember to park facing the right way though .This works brilliantly & is ideal if you stay on basic sites or wild camp!

thats what i do!

[Breakdown Biker]

For free hot water for washing up & showers fill as many 2 litre bottles as will fit on top of your dash (beer & cider ones are usually dark coloured & a good excuse for drinking more) On a sunny day it,ll be scalding by late afternoon. Remember to park facing the right way though .This works brilliantly & is ideal if you stay on basic sites or wild camp!

Great idea, I'll definately be trying this out

[tinkadill]

odd as it seems i got this idea from some new age travellers in cornwall yeas ago, they also rigged up a plastic barell (205 litres) connected at the top and bottom to a big length of hose pipe. A load od 2lite pop bottles with hols in the bottom threaded over the pipe and the water circulated (i cant remember how might have been just gravity or syphon action i dot remember a pump) but basically the water went through the hose inside its sleeve of bottles and back to the platic drum the temp got up to around 60 degrees celcius in the full sun on a hot summer day!

But i just use a few 2 litre mineral water bottles on the dash board its enough for the mrs to wash her hair!

[DortmundBrian]

I just bought one of these! We're used to camping and I haven't done a real mororhome build (yet!). Thought this might do the trick and all you need is a water container.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=224280

[Nadjenka]

I just bought one of these! We're used to camping and I haven't done a real mororhome build (yet!). Thought this might do the trick and all you need is a water container.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=224280

That's what I bought too, but that doesn't give you warm water though... or does it? I also bought black 5L wanter tank for longer stays/hot sunny days. I can throw that up on the roof whils't staying on one place to get water warm for the evening...

Otherwise we use above mentioned bottles when camping or boiled water from kettle too With bottles - sand on the beach works for them too pretty fast

[DortmundBrian]

No, the car shower doesn't give hot water, so you'd need to heat some up on the stove.

I thought about the idea of feeding a pipe from a camping water container and through some copper pipe to coil around a hot spot in the engine compartment and somehow pump or let the water circulate like an old immersion heater, to give some warm water after a long drive. I'm not an expert, but is this viable? Has it been done?

[transitbandit]

have you thought of a "kelly kettle" ?
they boil water in about 4 minutes..
you have to use it outside though.