Hi Brad, thanks for the kudos and sharing the kind words from Greg & Laurie!
Spoolin... here are some long overdue pictures of our bath-closet set up...and thx for putting a burner under my arse, this is something i should have done long ago for the gang.
DISCLAIMER! Your millage may vary!!
I am BLESSED with a McGirlver of a best friend/wife that comes up with some (IMO) elegantly simple solutions to life's daily _stuff_. In this case, our van's bathroom/shower concept. She designed the whole get up and is much happier with this than when we had the thetford cassette in our prior setup. We use either Wag Bags, or bio-bags/kitty litter depending on local regulations. (we will leave that conversation to other threads!).
So this is how it all looks going down the road. It is a cabinet that goes up to just below the stock roof line, and is about 16 to 18" on the floor out from the wall, and ~24" wide:
Here is a shot of it opened with the bath/shower items under the rugs:
And here it is with our preferred 2 gallon sized plastic bucket from a local bakery (cake frosting, they just toss them in the trash when empty) with a lug-able-loo toilet seat cover on top. A small trash can with lid & lined with a bag takes used hand wipes. Additional kitty litter (arm & hammer is our preferred brand) is in the bin behind the toilet with hand wipes on top. TP is on the hanging rung thingy.
You can see our REI camp towels, soap and other toiletries on the upper shelf ready for use during showering. The privacy/shower curtain clips toward the front over-cab area but is open for these photos. Shower curtain is an insert and surrounds the area for no-splash showers.
No the TP doesn't get wet...the shower pan was found at our local Home Depot and is simply a mixing basin found near the concrete supplies area of the store. We purchased a battery powered insect sprayer _
like this one_ We pour a kettle of room temp water into the sprayer first. Then we bring a kettle to boil and pour that in. We get a 5 to 10 minute warm shower with this setup, and get a week's worth of showers out of a set of "D" batteries no problem. We used a manual-hand-pump sprayer for 3 seasons though we got tired of having to add pressure to the setup mid-shower, so went with this battery powered unit.
I hope that sheds some light on the mysterious Bath-Closet in our setup.
Feel free to ask any questions for further clarifications.
Happy Trails,
Thom