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I bought an outdoor,cold water-shower at the end of summer, in the hopes that we could prevent our kids & their friends walking, dripping, from our pool to the bathroom to take a shower. The shower-users will be wearing bathing suits, but I'm wondering if I should put a trellis or potted tree on 2 sides of the shower, for a bit of privacy, or not necessary?

pool on right, neighbor's yard behind us. plenty of trees/shrubs on that side.

another angle: pool on right, house on left.

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Carole on Jan 13, 2015
I would only bother about a privacy screen if you neighbours were to complain. If they are in their bathers in the pool and just rinsing off I don't see a problem.

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Andrea Foote on Jan 13, 2015
I agree. We also have an outdoor shower with no specific privacy, although it is on the side of the house, not right in the middle of the patio.

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- Polly Zieper on Jan 15, 2015
  @Andrea Foote Ours is not in the middle of the patio, maybe the photos don't show it accurately, but the shower is at the back corner of the house., on the grass.I was thinking of getting a cheap plastic welcome mat or a few square tiles for the kids to stand on when showering, so they don't have to stand on wet grass, getting their feet dirty. thanks for your help.
  
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Anthea Tomkins on Jan 14, 2015
I like the idea of a screen. You could use it to place hooks to hang up your towels or hang soap on a rope. I like to get pool water off me because it makes me itch.

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- Polly Zieper on Jan 15, 2015
  @Anthea Tomkins ,I was thinking that I'd keep a bottle of Johnson&Johnson baby shampoo out there- it was suggested to me not to keep anything too strong because when it runs off into the grass it could hurt the grass,soap on a rope or a bottle of body wash would be good, too.thx!
  
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- Polly Zieper on Jan 15, 2015
  @Anthea Tomkins How could I hang hooks on stucco? any idea?or maybeI'll find somthing we can hang from the pool fence- simpler, and nothing permanent. thx!
  
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- Anthea Tomkins on Jan 16, 2015
  @Polly Zieper I was thinking of a Lattice screen or some kind of trellis. My husband suggested toggle bolts in the stucco!!! Though they would be more permanent!!!
  
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- Anthea Tomkins on Jan 16, 2015
  @Polly Zieper Baby shampoo is a good idea!
  
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Linda on Jan 14, 2015
We had an outdoor shower on the deck at another house to rinse off garden dirt before coming into the house, only we forgot to drain the line before the first hard cold snap hit. The water ran for a couple of hours before we got home and discovered it, and shut the valve off from inside the house. Good thing it was outside !!

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Jessica Serrano-Gregg on Jun 22, 2016
I see the post is a little old. What did you decide on? I made a shower for exactly the same reasons you had and I was going to post pics of it to show you what I created all by myself but if you completed it, do you have and update? Love to see!

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- Polly Zieper on Jun 22, 2016
  We haven't done anything for privacy, maybe before summer, maybe the kids will continue taking a shower in their swimsuits with no privacy.
  
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- Jessica Serrano-Gregg on Jun 22, 2016
  Lol,I guess I should have said we do the same thing, an out door shower for rinsing the chlorine off etc. haha, not Nekkid! Our problem is we have a creeper Neigboor that i caught watching the little ones showering even though they had on swimsuits and it gave me the heebie jeebies! So now I enclosed the shower with cheap shower curtains on pvc pipe and the back of the shower is lattice so I put an old vinyl table cloth stapled to the back so you cannot see anyone HOWEVER, we live right in the flight path of a tiny commuter airport that's just a mile away lol! So we get those tiny twin engines flying low to land right over our pool and so they can see looking down so I can't get Nekkid! Lol we live in Connecticut and just recently the CT air national guard was using the airport for training so we had all these military planes, Blackhawks and even the big chinook 's!! But they were flying low and right over my shower lol. I'll post pics when I'm done fixing her up!
  
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- Shuganne on Jul 08, 2019
  
  I know it's been 3 years, but I have to add a story to your helicopter story! Many years ago my dad worked at the telephone co before cell phones, so everyone had a land line. There was a particular phone pole that had to be fixed, just about every day at 1pm. It seems it was the best view of a lady who liked to sun bathe in the nude. She thought her 6 ft. solid wood fence made her safe from prying eyes. How wrong she was! The creeps are everywhere!! (Just in case you're wondering, my dad was in management and never out on repair calls. Sexist as it was, he didn't stop it until the other repair tickets didn't get done quickly enough.) Men!
  
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