Geyser Shower System | Full Review and Demonstration | The best Camping shower I have used
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- Review of the Geyser Shower System. I give a full demonstration of the system and point out a few cons. I feel this system is great for Van life, camping, and Overlanding. The Geyser shower system is quick, easy, and uses less than a gallon of water which makes it the best shower system I have used. The Geyser shower system is small, making it easy to take on your next camping, van life, or Overlanding adventure.
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Your watching Primal Outdoors - Camping, Overlanding and Van Life. I am living the van life in my Ford E350 4x4 Van traveling around the remote public land system in Oregon.
Love my 3 gallon metal pesticide applicator. It looks like an old fire extinguisher with a pump handle. Put it by the fire and heats up to ridiculously hot temperatures in a very short period of time. Cheap, effective, and takes up a little space and weighs very little empty
I have one of these myself and I too like it because of being able to conserve water while bathing outdoors is a big plus. I did have the electric model BUT returned it because heating element went bad so I got the non-heated version which I think is better for the same reasons you stated since it took so long to heat up as well as using up battery power to heat up. I do wish there was some type of an on/off button along with the valve on the hose so you don't have to keep the pump running. That way when you get the valve in a flow position that you wanted you can simply press the water flow button when you needed it. This would also help you stretch your water during your shower... All in all I would definitely purchase the Geyser shower system again in order to have a hot "shower".
Thanks for taking the time to put these videos out Jason! Sorry I missed your Patreon Summer camp event!
I love this pump. I’ve used solar bag, wet wipes(Soo bad for enviro. I wish people would quit promoting) & garden sprayer. THIS is so much better. An investment but worthy. I also have non warming due to time/wattage. I have Stanley Camp Crock(3 qt). In morn while making coffee/breakfast I boil extra water & seal in Crock. It stays hot up to 18 hrs. End of day-use in shower without having to heat more water. Saves time, waters hot, waters sanitary so can use for dishes, etc. Perfect. I do not use to wash my shoulder length hair(female). Water is too precious for that. I’m full time in a Subaru Crosstrek with rack on top & back. My only concern to mention is I’m 60. This thing can be heavy. It also takes up more weight in a small SUV. But, concessions have to be made for this life & this is a luxury I truly appreciate. Thank you for review & appropriate shots of it in use. Be Safe
Thank you for your prospective on its use👍. I never thought of setting it up in the morning and using it at night, I like that idea.
Jason, an option for working with any vacuum you get against your lid would be to just drill a hole in the lid and thread a stainless 1/4-20 screw with an o-ring and a washer. Use a dremel and a cutoff wheel to cut a groove in on one side of the screw but not all the way to the washer/oring seal. This setup will allow you to screw it down to seal as needed, but also back it out so that the groove is exposed to allow air to pass through to eliminate the vacuum.
I used this at expo west. Loved it so much I bought one immediately
I found this review helpful b/c you actually used the equipment and gave an honest assessment of how it worked. I am in the market for a way to get a hot shower while truck camping and the options are limited in my price range and what you do find, you can't get a feel for it from the Amazon reviews.
Great demonstration, as always. I also have this system, but have yet to try it. I like the size. Much more compact than a 2 gallon pump sprayer. It fits nicely in the water heater closet of my Sportsmobile. I removed the water heater because it requires shore power and we typically boondock. Thanks Jason!
Jason, we love your Pros, Cons and final thoughts on all your reviews. They really make sense. One additional item that might help us, is storage. How/ where do you store it. It looks bulky with several feet of cables and hoses. Best practices. Thanks again, Skillet
Interesting new gear! The Geyser people obviously understand showering in the wilderness. Love how easy the flow rate is to adjust. Thanks for doing a review.
This was already on my "to buy" list...thanks for sharing!
Good presentation. Appreciate the pros and cons and your sharing your thoughts from experience using it.
Enjoyed the videos simplicity with easy and understandable demonstrations. I will definitely look into this for my travels. Thanks for sharing
I am glad you enjoyed it Cindy
Living full time on the road with a home made pvc solar hot water heater. It makes my ctc a little top heavy. Putting this on my "Need" list. Way wicked cool.
You just gave me the idea to add a schrader valve to a weed sprayer when you said a 1 way chuck. Cheap shower system. Seems like a few people have already done this so i got some tutorials to work with. Cheers!
That does look like a nice easy way for a shower. I"d go for the standard model as well. I love to see them add a sprayer attachment for rinsing off instead of the sponge which is great for washing. Especially for washing hair.
Thank you! You answered most every question I had
Great review! I love that you provide details but in a pragmatic and accessible way, rather than an overly-technical dry way.
The shower looks great! Perfect for when a 24 hour gym isn’t nearby.
Supporting local businesses is important. People forget that cheap imports support exploitation of employees in poorer countries.
Nice unit. Will check it out. Thanks for the demonstration. 🐸
This looks like a good, well designed system.
It seems especially well suited to the van life.
For years I just used a 5 gallon bucket with a rag. Add some hot water boiled in a pan over the camp fire or stove to warm it up. You could go with Four or five 2 liter pop bottles if you need cheap as possible. Just poke some holes in an extra cap and you have a solar heated squeeze bottle with a shower head. Total cost: 5 bucks at the dollar store if you buy them full of pop. Works for long hair too. No problems. Maybe once my little YT channel gets monetized and I have more sponsors I can afford something more impressive like what you have. I always enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Looks cool. Thank You For Sharing.
Great review!!! Thank you. I am on the fence on this geyser system.. The price for me is a big factor. I too use a harbor freight 2 gallon sprayer that I use for showers.. I can definitely see the pros and cons. Thanks for all you do!
Dang it!! We were just planning on a video about our Geyser shower last night! We’re still doing it, from a girls perspective.
Great idea Courtney👍
Do it !! Do it !!! Lol
yep the geyser is legit! just took my first geyser whoever at expo mountain west and fell in love!
Once I tried it a couple of times I was hooked.
I've been using the rinse kit system which holds up to two gallons. I fill it with about a gallon of preheated water. I actually used the rinse kit today to take a shower at home this morning. Our house water runs off of a well and our pump went down.
Squeaky clean!🚿
heck yea.. this seems much better than the warm water bucket I currently use.
Picked up a used return from REI last week and saved over $100. Gonna test run today and take it on a 2 night camping excursion this weekend. Great review.
Found a brand new one the street for free today
Thanks man I just ordered one ☝️
Well received mine today after a hot day working on the power lines, I though it would be a good test. Stripped down in the garage, it was 86 degrees out! water was on the verge of being cold. Also, the flow valve was leaking. I thought they took care of that problem, but I guess not. Ran out of water before I was Done. Sending it back to Amazon tonight. I will keep using my boss heater and use a small sprayer if I want a water saving shower, but I will be able to increase the temperature at least.
Geyser is missing a huge opportunity. The biggest deal isn't their pump/reservoir, it's the sponge. In regular vans/truck campers/other camper showers, a hookup to replace a shower head with one of these would save a TON of water when boondocking. I'd love to see Geyser expand the system with more accessories too like a small spray nozzle. Then you could skip wasting water rinsing the sponge and just rinse directly.
I agree and I spoke with them about this. They are working on other applications. I want to do a similar system in my home shower!
I did this with my RoadShower and a pressure reducer with the Geyser sponges and hose. Worked great. I asked them to buy one of their proprietary connectors, but basically told me not to do what I wanted to do. So I did it anyway with other parts and their sponges. 😜
@@Steve_and_Deb_Explore_the_USA so how did you do it?
@@shnuggumz See my comment below with details.
Yay!!
Great product but to big and costly, we still use a bucket and a 12 volt shower head. Excellent review as usual.
A nice but rather elaborate system. I just use a 5V USB rechargable battery powered shower combined with a stainless steel jerrycan. The jerrycan can be filled with a kettle or placed directly over a stove or alonside a campfire. Jerrycan also useable as a general water storage too.
I also use a couple 25mm thick waffle recovery boards for my shower base combined with a Quick Pitch Shower System. Great setup :-)
Otherwise, love your content.x
Would like to see your set up!
Van dwellers make me appreciate I'm in a small travel trailer! I have all the comforts of a house even living offgrid.
Maybe a review and demonstration on recovery boards?
I love it for the portability. Put it in the truck with rooftop tent. Back of the Hiker trailer. In the car for tent camping. I'm in AZ and water is very hard to find in the back country, this saves a ton of water. I do have the unit with built in heat, I've used the heater once, took about 15 minuets to get up to speed, most times I use the Jet Boil. I can not stress how much a game changer this thing is, I was amazed first time I used it. You feel clean and you did not make a huge muddy mess at your camp site. I put mine in a cheap Harbor Freight 4800 case with all the essentials. Small Jackery and 5 gallon can from Lowes the Scepter food grade plastic. That's a week of clean camping (human wise). I know some folks use it to wash their dishes at camp, they sell a special sponge just for that purpose. I found mine at overland west with the Crew from Geyser at the demo tent.
If you could buy it again would you just go for the non heated version? I'm on the fence on which to buy
My opinion get the non heated version. Its cheaper and boiling water is faster.
Hey Jason, your friends have been meaning to tell you about that shower system. LOL, Ha, just joking, it looks like a good system.
Great review! Im asking this seriously... Couldn't you get a similar result with a two bucket/bowl system amd a couple sponges? Just warm some water (like the non heated geyser system requies) and lather up. Then rinse with the clean second bucket. I feel like you could do this with about a gallon of water and maybe $10 in supplies? Just not convinced the pump is that necessary....again, not trying to say anything bad about this system just trying to think practically. Appreciate any feedback.
Usually we only get this kind of exclusive content on patreon 😉
Seems like the version with the electric heater would do the best at getting the water as hot as possible without tripping the hot shut off. And if you added stove-heated water to the heater version, it would neither take much time nor use as much DC power to get it ready for a shower. Right?
Hi. Forgot, mine (non heated) was $190 sale REI. Came with 2 sponges & coupon in pkg if I reviewed for another sponge. (2021)
Hi … did yuh try to compare against the rinse kit pro?
I am surprised the company never incorporated an anti vacuum valve into the lid. They are cheap and very effective
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Jason will you be making a winter trip to
Alaska this year 2022?
Not on the list
How would this work for washing sand and mud off? It seems like its not ideal for applications when you would actually be dirty?
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Hmmm... a 1 gallon garden pump sprayer DIY'd with some insulation and a cheap kitchen sink sprayer would probably be more economical. Probably about the same footprint too. Cool review though.
A bucket works fine with out all the B
How much power did it use in total to drain the water?
I didn’t read through al the comments so hopefully not a redundant question, is the sponge thingy the only way to get showered on this device, or is there a standard shower type nozzle available? I’m assuming the sponge thing helps stretch the water?
You can disconnect the sponge and use it as a sprayer but the sponge works really well.
@@PrimalOutdoors ok but no delegate shower head style fitting available through that company?
@@PrimalOutdoors I just watched their promo video, just like you mentioned unplug the sponge and spray away… been using Nemo foot pump style showers for years just looking to better less footwork related shower set ups for our new van build….
Some apple cider vinegar and soap on wet wipes will get you very clean. Maybe use this to rinse off.
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So, is there anything in this product that can't be replicated with a cheap submersible pump and a 2 gallon bucket? & maybe some vinyl tubing and a flow valve? Because this is a solid idea but the price point is a bit beyond me.
with a folding doggie pool do you think this could be done inside the Van in Winter?
I have actually heard of people doing that. If you can stand in your van I think it would be a viable option.
So can you add more water of your not done?
Yes you can
Why isn't there a sprayer option?
Just disconnect the sponge and you can spray if you want
Best shower system is the one in your house
Or you can get a 2 gal. garden sprayer that you paint black and sit out in the sun. $15
20 below Fahrenheit?
Exactly what I thought. The fed sponge is a good idea but I can’t see it being that hard to replicate with a shower glove and some elastic. It’s bulky for what it is and about 10 times overpriced
DIY is always cool but not everyone has the time, tools or patiences. So having an over the counter option that has been built well, safe and tested is a good option as well.
@@PrimalOutdoors I don't know or have ever met an Overlander who couldn't put together a simple garden sprayer.
Everything looks like it's a great system... but not into storing a wet-foul-sponge...I go sans sponge and bathing suit 😎
If you have to warm your water, may as well get from amazon 12V shower kit ( shower handle with switch and pump ) and put it in the bucket of mixed hot and cold water and you have shower at fraction of the price. Overpriced big time.
The small sponge on a hose is a no for me. I can’t imagine trying to hit the man bits and rear end of with a hose on a small pad of sponge.
I use mine almost daily its not really that complicated😂
Seems too finiky for my uses. So far the $35 one i got off Amazon has been great, not a can camper though.
Something different ???????
Feels like a decent idea but very poor execution. If they had gone with a USB-C instead of car port for the power it would be able to be used on a lot more smaller battery banks / power stations and also it just seems functionally useless with its water pressure for anyone with hair longer then 2 inches.
There are FAR more cheaper and smaller solutions out there for off grid showering. Can’t believe how expensive and huge this is.
Cheaper and smaller doesn’t mean better. Of course there are tons of options out there and I have tried a lot of them, but this is my favorite.
So, Geyser had you remove my comment on here for how to use their sponge and hose with a RoadShower? Disappointed…
Steve this is very interesting. I did not remove your comment nor would I ever remove a comment because a company asked me to, but I do notice its now missing. Which has me wondering why. For the record Geyser never said anything about it. I am concerned about why this comment is now missing.
@@PrimalOutdoors Thanks, I have no idea what happened! I posted yesterday after watching the video, and today it was gone. Weird.
For the record, what I did was order the hose, valve, and a couple of sponges directly from Geyser after first seeing you talk about it. I wanted to use them with my current RoadShower. I originally wanted to use their quick connect, but when I wrote to Geyser asking to order the part and explaining what I was doing, they told me it was proprietary, and the system was only to be used on their pumps.
Instead, I bought a 10PSI pressure reducer, a garden hose to 1/4" hose adaptor, and connected the Geyser hose, valve and sponges. It works fantastically! Haven't showered with it, but washing dishes at camp saves so much water now vs the RoadShower's spray nozzle.
Geyser should sell these as kits to anyone with an alternate water storage system. Yes, I avoided spending the money for their pump/heater, but there are thousands of folks out there with similar systems they could sell to and make up in quantity what a few lost unit sales would cost them. A win-win for everyone!
And, I just realized that you and I are apparently the only people still using the term "folks" 😆
I of course I don't speak for Geyser or have any involvement in the their business model. Like you said for the DIYers out there it's not hard at all to adapt their sponge to other shower systems using a 1/4 hose barb. Each aftermarket shower system is going to be somewhat different so coming up with universal connection that is going easily adapt to other systems might be problematic from the standpoint, it would be difficult for Geyser to support all the calls and emails that would come in from folks that are not DIY minded trying to attach the sponge to XYZ shower system. I think it's better for folks that have DIY mindset like yourself to figure out on their own how to best adapt the sponge to XYZ shower system they have. For those folks that are not interested in a DIY solution the Geyser system is a simple, portable and functional solution that works very well.
Not really a shower - a sponge bath. 😁
I have used this system and have found it wanting, and that's not saying anything about the price, Jerry can with a 12volt pump is as good as you can get, if you don't have power or a lot of water a hand pump garden spray with the sponge fitting also works just as well, lots of good options available at a fraction of the price.....
$259 and all youre getting is a $20 water pump.
This is so over priced, and way to many cons