Outside Shower Dishwashing Station

Has anyone modified the outdoor shower for washing dishes. We have an 178 with external shower which would provide an excellent place for washing pots and pans and such without making a mess in the trailer.

Since the shower has hot and cold water the only thing I think I'd need is a longer hose and perhaps a nozzle that is more suited to dishwashing than showering.

We carry a table and dish drying rack so this looks like a great mod.

Anyone done anything like this?

Yes Sir, it is against the law to dispense grey water on the ground at a camp site in a state park in the State of Texas. Just think if everybody did it? All of the camp ground would be one big smelly mud hole. 

I had the very same idea, (it's brilliant!), but then almost immediately realized the gray water implications.  Now I'm pondering a return line from the dishwashing sink to the gray water holding tank.  Since the logical location for an outdoor shower box for our 177, (no factory o/s shower), is on the slide-out wall beneath the kitchen window, both supply lines and the sink drain should be readily accessible.  I haven't gone any further than thinking about it so I do not yet know if everything will flow down hill.

Originally posted by Don Halas I'm not suggesting all dish washing outside.  Just the big things like a Clam pot that are way too big for the sink and likely to make a mess of the pod interior when washing. I'd rather have that mess on the outside, not the inside.

And some campgrounds insist that you haul that mess off with you when you go (in your grey water tank).

It's not a question of what you wash, it's a question of what you do with the waste water.  There are places where you can get away with dumping it on the ground, although it may not be a great idea even in those places.  There are other places where it is simply not allowed.  I don't know how much trouble you'd be in if you got caught, but you wouldn't win a lot of friends among the other campers.

There are usually wash areas in or around the restrooms in those campgrounds that don't allow dumping of grey water on the ground.  Use their water -- it has lots of pressure and it doesn't deplete your tank.

For what it's worth, the no grey water rule technically applies to using the outside shower as a shower too.

TT

Thats how we do our dishes. We set up a table there and place two of the grey bus boy "haul" tubs that you buy at restaurant supply places. Hot soapy water in one and rinse in the other. The existing showerhead works fine for this. We dump the dish water somewhere out of the way and have never had an issue with it. There is a certain size haul that just barely fits in the cabinet of the 179. We stack one in the other and store them in the cabinet.