Outdoor dog wash station. Anyone have one?

[BoRED S2upid]

I just stick him in the kitchen sink.

[joshcowin]

Got a lab, just had a hot water tap put outside will work fine. Decent shampoo and conditioner really helps keep the smell away.

[redback911]

Best thing we did for washing dogs was install an external hot tap. Its great for when the labs roll in something nasty and washes shampoo out quickly, oh and also cleaning MTB's.

We have an outdoor jacuzzi and dog bath at home, as well.





The main problem is keeping the labs out of the either in the middle of winter when I let them out in the garden for final wee as I'm about to go to bed.

[JQ]

NelsonM3 said:

Percy Cushion said:

This is PH at its finest. “I don’t even have a dog but in looking to spend £2K redesigning the house, just in case.

Get a MudDaddy or similar and a bunch of old towels to dry him/ her off. Job done. Unlike Ranger6 who likes his dog to dry au natural.

I live right outside a country park in the middle of Suffolk. A boot room as well as practical, would likely increase the desirability/value of the house. I’m not a powerfully built director, but £2,000 isn’t a lot of money or a bad investment.

The country park location was actually the consideration for a dog when I moved here two years ago

If you want a boot room, great, go for it, but it's not an investment. I don't believe it will add to the value of your house, it may even detract value / marketability. If you were in a 5 bed detached on half an acre overlooking the park, then yes, it would be an investment. But you're proposing to build a boot room the same size as your kitchen, that will take up a third of the already small garage, when you already have a utility room. Your total utility space will only be a bit smaller than your kitchen and dining space. If you knocked the existing kitchen, dining and utility rooms together to create a large kitchen diner and the proposed boot room was your only utility, then yes, it would be worth doing. But as you've said you've already remodelled the house I assume that's not going to happen.

I would perhaps wait until you've got the dog then make a reassessment - we've had dogs for years, also live next to a country park and it's never been an issue. We're about to have a kitchen extension built and we'll likely have an outside mixer shower head installed during the process as it'll be dirt cheap to add on, and I think that's spoiling the dog, a dog that we all absolutely love to bits and gets treated very very well.

[Slowboathome]

redback911 said:

Best thing we did for washing dogs was install an external hot tap. Its great for when the labs roll in something nasty and washes shampoo out quickly, oh and also cleaning MTB's.

We have an outdoor jacuzzi and dog bath at home, as well.





The main problem is keeping the labs out of the either in the middle of winter when I let them out in the garden for final wee as I'm about to go to bed.

That is glorious.

[redback911]

Slowboathome said:

That is glorious.

Haha, it is for the 30 minutes of good weather we get per week.