Friday, 24 May
Eastbank COE Campground — Bainbridge, Georgia
Temps: Lo 64F / Hi 91F (18C / 33C)
We have a stacked washer and dryer in the Phaeton. I love the convenience of being able to throw in a load of laundry whenever the mood strikes … provided we have full hook-ups. The Whirlpool washer allows me to not only set the wash cycle (from heavy soil to hand wash), but also gives me the option to set the spin strength (no spin to extra high).
I especially like the no spin option for delicates and trekking clothes, but where to then dry the clothes without getting a puddle of water all over the floor was the question. The answer — the shower stall, of course. Mui went to work and built me a drip-dry station, which solved the where-to-hang problem. He did this little project a while back — way before we started fulltiming — but it wasn’t until my friend MBZ asked me to point her to the post that I realized I had neglected to do a write-up. This post remedies that oversight.
It’s possible to use a PVC pipe for the rod, but we had some kiln-dried wood bars at
home, so Mui cut one of those down to size instead. Next step, drilling pilot holes
in the custom-cut rod for some screw-in hooks.
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Left: An eye hook at either end of the rod to thread the chain.
Right: Screw-in hooks spaced along the bottom of the rod to hang clothes that aren’t on hangers.
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Left: hooks screwed into opposite sides of the frame of the skylight over the shower …
Right: … hold up the chain that is threaded through the eye screws.
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Installation complete.
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Left: When not be using used to dry clothes, the drip-dry station is a good place to hang
damp towels; it is a particularly good place for bulky toweling robes (not pictured).
Right: When not in use, or when we want to close the skylight cover, we can store
the rod on the same hook where the swiffer is stored.
When Mui installed the rod, we anticipated storing it as noted above. Turns out, the rod is high enough that we do not need to remove it when showering. Since Mui has taken to hanging his toweling robe on one of the hooks, the weight keeps the rod in place even when we are in driving-mode. We also tend to keep the skylight open most of the time, so that hasn’t been reason to remove the rod either.
One more use of the shower stall, which gets used once — maybe twice — a day. It’s all about using space efficiently, isn’t it?
