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Wildcat79
Explorer
Jul 24, 2014

Toilet cassette to shower/toilet cassette mod??

New to the forum. Been lurking for a bit. Great site. Going to buy a popup soon and found a Coleman Utah with about what I want minus the inside shower. It has the toilet cassette but no shower. Would it be hard to mod or possible to put in the shower/toilet cassette in place of the toilet cassette?

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  • RoyB's avatar
    RoyB
    Explorer II
    Bondebond - Hey ole buddy nice to see you are still alive and well. Things must be keeping your busy in Searcy Ar. Havent seen you on in awhile...

    I keep mentioning your name from time to time trying to pull you out of the woodworks haha...

    We still are in the same situation here but a light is beginning to show up at the end of the tunnel - sure hope it isn't a big ole train...

    I have been planning some major beef-up mods including solar panels on the roof for my OFF-ROAD POPUP... Its gonna be my WAR WAGON hehe...

    Roy Ken
  • RoyB's avatar
    RoyB
    Explorer II
    My 2008 Off-Road POPUP came with the combo cassette potty and shower setup. It is to the right of the entrance door and goes all the way to the bed end. This one use a pull around curtain for privacy and the end of the trailer has a pull across the trailer section curtain....






    You remove the cassette unit from the outside which has wheels and tote off to the bath room and pour down the toilet


    Although everything works great we have only used the shower part of it maybe a coupe of times. It is too small to stand up in it and there is just something basically wrong with sitting on the pot and take a hand wan shower. The joke is do you have the toilet lid up or down hehe... We end up having a sailors shower/wash up at the kitchen sink and mostly go to campground shower when they have one.

    I would save alot of room by installing the POTTY only version and save alot of precious room. This version has a nice storage lid on top... The cassette part pulls out inside the the trailer right inside the the entrance door... The cassette is easy to use and is no mess or smell -- there is no problem pulling it out inside the trailer... My same built-in section curtain would work well with the potty only version.

    All photos from GOOGLE Images

    Roy Ken
  • Hello and welcome aboard.

    It all depends upon your time and abilities in addition to some funds. There are a couple of options that I see and probably many, many more.

    One is to forego the internal modifications and get a stand alone shower tent. You can use solar showers or the portable water heaters like the Coleman Hot Water On Demand water heater. You'll need a method of collecting the water runoff. Some folks use a household water heater overflow pan for that. We had a shower tent and used it on one trip then put it on the shelf. Works well for some folks.

    For the shower/toilet combination units, it is tough to figure out if uses just their standard cassette toilet plus a specific base, i.e. shower pan or if it is a specific model cassette toilet that is fitted for the shower pan. You might just need to find the base that matches your model of toilet, which is probably the C400 series. A complete setup, pulled from an old PUP, sold for $300 with local pickup on ebay recently.
    It wouldn't be too hard to build a shower pan yourself. There are lots of images that Google provided for inspiration. I did a Google search and found this for starters.

    And using a laundry sink tub basin is another popular DIY option as they can fit inside the base cabinets for seating and then you're attaching a curtain to the ceiling, adding a faucet with detachable shower wand.

    Everyone's experience and wants are different. I really wanted a shower and toilet in the first PUP we purchased. For my wife, it wasn't high on her priority list. That was ultimately the reason I sold it and bought the current PUP. Being a lot bigger inside and tons of amenities sure didn't hurt either.
    Well, since getting one with a hard wall spacious toilet and shower (almost double the area provided by standard PUP shower/toilet configurations), I'm the only one to have used it and that was once. The toilet is invaluable, the shower not so much. The hard walls of the bathroom are dang useful for the obvious purpose but came with a mirror on the outside, makes an awesome place to put towel hangers, organizers, etc.

    I would make the following suggestion: either buy the unit that you want with everything in it, which is called "buy your second PUP first" instead of settling for a great deal, OR buy one and immediately buy the parts to make the necessary changes. If not, probably you'll limp along for a few years and finally give up and sell it or just not be satisfied if you don't happen to ever get around to the major modifications.

    BTW, I love doing mods to my PUP. It's a hobby in itself. I have not done any structural reconfigurations yet but lots of creature comfort or usability upgrades. See here for some of what I've done. Others on here done quite a few.