10/16/2024
Bathing is our bread and butter. However, without access to running, drinkable water, bathing and water access in general looks pretty different. Here’s some awesome shower DIYs and resources straight from the ingenuity of our local community:
🪴🚿 Garden Sprayer Shower 🪴🚿
This is a multi-functional solution: showers, hand washing, doing the dishes, etc! Huge shoutout to , a fellow Asheville small business, for creating and sharing this step-by-step guide for building your own garden sprayer shower. Check out their post for more details.
Here’s what you need:
Home garden sprayer
Kitchen faucet sprayer with hose
Hose barb ¼”x¼”
Hose clamp ¼” to ⅝”
How to build:
Remove the mister attachment on the sprayer hose by cutting with a box cutter or scissors.
Place the hose clamp on the hose line coming from the sprayer.
Insert the hose barb into the cut hose end and secure with the hose clamp by tightening with a screwdriver.
Thread the end of the faucet sprayer hose to the other end of the hose barb. And you’re set!
🧺🧻 Asheville Toilet/Shower/Laundry/Hand Washing Resource Map 🧺🧻
Toilets of AVL is a crowd-sourced Google map of public toilets, portapotties, laundry facilities, showers, and handwashing stations available to the public in the Asheville, NC area in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. It was created by and has been shared widely in recent days. Check it out, and add to it if you find a new spot!
⭐️ Other Resources ⭐️
As everyone impacted by hurricane Helene knows, things change rapidly! There are constant updates, changing distribution centers, and new information. This is by no means intended to be a comprehensive guide to water and bathing resources - we couldn’t make one if we tried! We rounded up some places our team has been turning to for updates, all linked.
We’re looking forward to being in the Asheville bathhouse together again sometime soon for some much needed regulation, relaxation, and rest 💗 Stay safe and stay hydrated!
