How to Improve the Shower in Your RV

Time to get ready, you and the better half are going out for dinner tonight. A quick shower and the two of you are nice and fresh for your time together. First one in knows the rules, turn the water on for a few seconds to get wet then shut it off. Lather up then another short rinse. One more time to shampoo the hair then out you go. That's life with a standard hot water heater in "Every" RV.

There are but two different water heater capacities available in the RV world, a 6 gallon standard in most RV's, or in high end units you might be lucky and have 10 gallons of hot water available. The smaller 6 gallon unit means even using extreme water conservation techniques one very quick shower is all your going to get until the burner must spend the next 20 minutes heating the next 6 gallons. With the 10 gallon unit at least you know the shampoo will be rinsed out of your hair before it goes to ice cold.

These techniques are acceptable if your boondocking and have a limited supply of water in the first place. But you paid good money to be set up in this RV resort and darn if this motorhome didn't cost as much as your stick and brick house. Fine leather upholstery and fancy lights and mirrors all seem like a smoke screen, hiding the fact that when it comes right down to it your basically just Camping. Everyone knows that Camping requires a few sacrifices, a good comfortable hot water shower is one of those sacrifices you just have to make.

Not anymore, just like your home water heater today you can have endless hot water on demand. Take showers, wash cloths, do the dishes, all at the same time, or one right after another. That's the benefit of a Tankless Water Heater .

Tankless units work by having the incoming water pass through a coiled heating tube which wraps around the gas burner. When the faucet or shower is turned on the flow of water signals the burner to ignite. Because the water is moving through the numerous coils surrounded in flame the water comes up to temperature in a matter of seconds.

The burner is designed to heat the water on a continuous basis until water flow stops. If your hooked to a park water supply you could be in the shower as long as you wish, content with a never ending supply of hot water.

This would go a long way in removing the just "Camping" stigma from your luxury motorhome outings. After all isn't that why you paid the big bucks for your coach in the first place?