HELP!! How will I cope with no bathroom for 3 weeks?!

SailorSam

I've got an old tin bath if you want to borrow it.
It's in the garden with plants in at the moment but they can be replanted

Savvy_Sue

peachyprice wrote: »

Go swimming a couple of times a week and use the showers after?
Infact you wouldn't actually need to swim

Take advantage of the free Schwim offer, it's available at a couple of very nice health clubs in our area! Times are quite limited, but if you work, I'm sure your colleagues would happily wave you off for a shower.

PasturesNew

Get a camping shower set up in the garden. You get a tent and a shower, so you just need water - and there are 'solar water heaters' that are just a black bag and the water heats up over the day in the bag because the sun's on it... although you could fill the bag with warm water .... of course it does depend if your garden's overlooked.

The shower bags are £4, the shower tents are £25-40. http://www.discover.co.uk/tents/accessories/camping-accessories/quest-traveller-toilet-utility-tent

PasturesNew

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Take advantage of the free Schwim offer, it's available at a couple of very nice health clubs in our area! Times are quite limited, but if you work, I'm sure your colleagues would happily wave you off for a shower.

My nearest one's a 75 mile round trip, 2nd nearest is 130 mile round trip.

I_luv_cats

If no loo we'll have another "Howard Hughes" on our hands!! LOL

I'd say a good suggestion of others : trip to local council leisure centre for a shower or friends or neighbours shower ??

floss2

Thanks for all your suggestions - some aren't possible though.....

We don't have a garden - only a back yard, so can't do the solar shower or even the tin bath

One of our council pools is currently closed being refurbished, the other is swim-team training only until 7.45am, and I need to be on my way to work by then.

Friends who have offered live about 30 minutes away - not a problem after work though.

Both mine & DH's family all live over an hour or more away.

Our kitchen has no curtains / blinds as it isn't really overlooked......I hope

WIll look into the council shower-only opportunities - hadn't thought of that!

We will have a loo every night; however the bathroom suite is being removed on Monday followed by the boiler cupboard being removed and the floor being ripped up to allow re-routing of plumbing & electric cabling, then new floorboards laid before the whole bathroom is refitted (and suite being resited), walls plastered, ceiling lowered, wet-area & screen for shower, shower & suite fitted, electrical work, wall & floor tiling, so quite a major job hence the 3 weeks work.

Think DH & I will be goind swimming at the weekends - we've already made plans to visit some friends 60 miles away & will use their facilities before we go out with them!

Elle7

Nicki wrote: »

Lots of places have showers for no or minimal cost without needing to join an expensive gym!

Friends and neighbours
Public swimming pools
Municipal leisure centres and sports facilities
Motorway service stations
Airports
Budget hotels (if desperate)
Perhaps your office

In extremes you don't need to bath or shower every day. When our bathroom was redone we used the kitchen sink twice daily and had a shower with a neighbour once a week, a bath with family once a week, and used a public shower (in local gym) once a week. It wasn't ideal but it was only a few weeks and we had enough neighbours and friends not to have to ask the same person more than once. It was the same family member though as they were the only ones in commutable distance!

Did you get to choose which one? :rotfl: That really made me laugh

ailuro2

I'd be asking why it was going to take 3 weeks - ours was gutted in 4 days... we went off to Haven for a chesap caravan break and left them to get on with it.

Ilona

joyfull wrote: »

Washing all over using a full sink of water and a flannel is quite possible and hygienic. Same applies for washing hair using the sink. Lock the doors and close the curtains though! We've been thoroughly conditioned to think we're only clean when sluishing around in gallons of fresh water each day. Don't worry, you'll find it's fine.

Totally agree with this. I didn't have hot water, system broke down, no central heating either, for three years. You can keep perfectly clean having an old fashioned strip wash in the kitchen sink, with two kettle fulls of hot water. It's how we did it as children and it works perfectly well now. Hang a sheet up at the windows if you havent got curtains.
Ilona

BitterAndTwisted

When my hot water was out of action for weeks last summer I boiled a kettle and poured it into an old washing-up bowl and had a strip-wash while standing in that. It wasn't as much of an inconvenience as you might think.