Now, before you start rolling your eyes and muttering something about horse women spending
money again, we'd like a moment of your time.

After ten years of selling these showers, we've
noticed a pattern.

It usually starts with a horse owner discovering Hippo Showers and falling in love with the idea of warm water on a freezing January morning. But it’s expensive.

More than she wants to spend without running it past you, you wonderfully kind and generous man.

At which point you will study the photographs for approximately fourteen seconds before
confidently announcing: "I could make one of those."

And honestly? You probably could.

You seem like a capable enough chap Dave.

You've got tools. You've got a shed. You've watched YouTube videos. You've fixed things before.
You may even have a collection of mysterious bits of metal that you've been saving for exactly this
sort of project since 2008.

The problem isn't whether you can build one.

The problem is that we've met hundreds of men who thought exactly the same thing. And an awful lot of them ended up buying a Hippo Shower anyway.

Usually about a year later.

Normally after the homemade version has developed one or more exciting features, such as leaking, rattling, falling over, refusing to light, refusing to stay lit, becoming impossible to source parts for, or worse, the reason for a sharp increase in your insurance costs due to your dodgy DIY-ing.

The thing is, OUR showers aren't simply a cheapo boiler strapped to a sack barrow. If they were, we'd have been out of business years ago.

And yet, here we are, writing this letter to you, Dave. Still very much IN business.

Every part of the Original Hippo has been designed specifically for the job. The frame is custom
made. The handles are angled to make it easier to push around yards, fields and showgrounds. The
gas bottle compartment securely holds the bottle in place so it isn't bouncing around every time someone encounters a pothole.

Most importantly, there is a physical barrier between the boiler and the gas bottle. Now, we know that doesn't sound particularly exciting. But things that stop gas and flames becoming unexpectedly acquainted with one another rarely are.

Until you realise the consequence of them NOT being there. That barrier isn't there because it looks nice, or to rest your cup of tea on. It's there because safety matters.

Our design has intellectual property protection for a reason, and a great deal of thought has gone into making sure the shower is not only practical, but safe too. And it’s protected by the Patent Office cos it’s OUR design.

What happens if something goes wrong? What happens if you need a spare part? What happens
when it needs servicing (it’s a gas boiler Dave, it should be serviced regularly… unless of course
you don’t actually like your wife?)

What happens if, five years down the line, it needs a repair?

With a Hippo Shower, you ring us.

We service them. We repair them. We stock parts. We answer the phone. We're based here in the UK. We can fix literally anything on them. We even offer a five-year warranty because we're confident enough in what we build to stand behind it.

That's very different to trying to source parts for a mystery boiler bought online from a company that may or may not still exist by the time you've finished reading this letter, or trying to negotiate
an online chat in a different timezone with ‘Kevin’

Then there's the fact that every Hippo comes with everything needed to get started.

Everything.

The hoses. The gas parts. The connectors. The fittings. The bits that people always forget they need until nine o'clock on a Sunday morning as they’re heading out to do a last minute pre-show wash.

It even includes our MammothFlow hose, which retails for over £100 on its own and has acquired something of a fan club around the world.

Technically, horses survived for thousands of years without portable hot showers.

So did humans.

Yet here we all are with central heating and indoor plumbing because, it turns out, warm water makes life significantly more pleasant. You'd not catch me washing in a puddle. Nope. No Sir-ee.

Hot water gets mud off faster. Shampoo works better. Grease lifts more easily. The horse gets
cleaner. The whole job takes less time. And perhaps the most important point of all:
Your wife spends less time standing around a freezing yard.

She comes home sooner. She comes home warmer. She comes home happier (you've heard of
'happy wife, happy life' yeah?).

And while we are not qualified relationship experts, we strongly suspect that the happiness of a
horse-owning woman has a direct impact on overall household harmony.

It certainly does in our household!

The other thing worth mentioning is that these showers have a habit of becoming everyone's shower. They start off being bought for horses.
Then they get used for muddy dogs. Then trailers. Then horseboxes. Then cars. Then bicycles. Then
motorbikes. Then walking boots. Then golf clubs...

Before long, you've somehow become quite attached to your Hippo Shower and are explaining its benefits to complete strangers. Maybe even considering another one for 'home'

It happens more often than you'd think.