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The two of them together make for a delightfully hot shower when we're camping or out in the yard.It's designed much like a modern tent, with two flexible & collapsible poles that get bent into shape and are retained by the enclosure's medium-duty plastic-coated nylon fabric. Much better.We found the Zodi for around $90 shipped. We called Zodi and they sent us a new one under warranty. When it's set up on grass or on a deck, we don't use it.The current model is black, not the blue-green shown in the picture.What could be improved.The section of the wall fabric that functions as the door is stitched to the rest of the fabric at the top and bottom only, and has a velcro closure in the middle. So now the "door" opens fully, from the top all the way down to the still-stitched bottom edge. It sets up and tears down quickly. They're great for holding soap, shampoo and other sundries.It also comes with a ground cloth, to keep the mud out. (Throw away the shower head from these things -- they're awful.
It's not perfect, but nearly so. We step over that, into the enclosure, and then join the two nicely secure velcro closures. The water heater was around $100. The one that comes with the Eccotemp L5 is great). For a little over $300 we had ourselves a very enjoyable and pleasant addition to our Summer.Recommended.[Update 8/21/09: After being set up continuously on our deck for two months, one of the collapsible support poles fractured and broke. Adding a few plumbing fixtures from Home Depot cost us another $20.
That's very spacious.The walls are high enough so that you can look out, but everything from the neck down is shielded from public view. Then two weeks later the other pole fractured and broke. To get in, you open the center velcro closure, bend down and slip through the slit between the top and bottom stitching. We paired it with an Eccotemp L5, a liquid propane-powered, tankless,on-demand, hot water heater that is fed from a garden hose. Packed up, it's compact, lightweight, and fits into a supplied nylon sleeve.It's 4-feet on a side, and more than 5-feet across the diagonals.
That's awkward at best.To improve that, we sliced the stitching at the top of the "door" and installed more velcro instead. Let's see how long these new poles last]. We called Zodi and they sent us a second new one under warranty. (See recent updates at the end of this review)This is a great product, far outshining every other outdoor shower enclosure that I'm aware of. The bottom of the walls are around 6-inches off the ground -- if anyone were interested, they could see your feet.There are three mesh pockets sewn into the inside top corners of the enclosure.
And to provide a bit of luxury, we added one of those outdoor wood shower platforms with a built-in faucet, for another $100.
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