keyman512us said:
still trying to figure out the "why"..but...lol
Because the wife mows the lawn!
Ok, ok, stick with me for a minute here and see if you can follow this convoluted logic train...
She really does mow the lawn - says she likes the exercise. Normally she wears a swimsuit or other "ok to get wet" type clothing so that, once she's done, she can plop directly into the pool.
This year, though, we've finally decided to give up on the pool. It's an above-ground that's reached the end of its practical life and, with the kids being older, her "after mowing plop" was about the only use it was getting anyways.
So, with no more pool, she said she'd be perfectly happy with some sort of outdoor shower that she could cool herself down with after mowing.
The first floor back wall of the house is all poured concrete. There is the one penetration for the current (rear fed) hose bib - no easy way to add a "shower" capability. Another consideration is that there have been many times when a second hose bib would have been useful (just this weekend I could have used the spigot for my homebrewing but the hose was connected and run out to the sprinkler in the garden). So, it boils down to the fact that I'd like to have two hose bibs and an outdoor shower mounted on the back wall AND all of this fed via the existing single wall penetration.
My thinking is that I'll come out of the penetration to a 90 degree elbow pointing down. Connect this to a tee with the odd leg pointing to the left. To the bottom of the tee, connect the "drop ear ell" and then a boiler drain. Back at the left pointing leg, connect a length of pipe and stick another tee on the end. Repeat the "drop ear ell" and boiler drain on the bottom connection of the tee for a second hose bib. To the top of the tee, connect a length a pipe, an inline valve, more pipe, and finally another "drop ear ell" at shower height. Pop a shower arm/head into that one and we should be good to go.
Buy a "boiler drain" to screw into it...and you should be all set.
