How To Flood A Backyard Rink
Flooding my backyard rink with a homemade flooding tool.
How to flood a backyard rink. If you can do 8 inches you will be able to handle even a week above 0. Keep flooding the rink with more water once it s frozen all the way through to build up at least 6 inches so you can weather those days when the temperature goes about 0. For a solid freeze the temperature should be about 20 degrees fahrenheit or colder for at least three consecutive days. Guimond is also the spokesperson for the city s adopt a rink program which provides training and supplies to 45 neighbourhood run rinks.
You ll need to get the entire rink completely covered with water before any of it starts to freeze. To flood the rink you ll need to have the availability of large hoses and above average water pressure. Make the best backyard rink around. This is used for ice skating ice hockey and other winter sports.
Get out there and do as canadians do. Once the base and sides are ready the rink can be flooded. Flooding your rink on nights when the weather and temperature are appropriate for flooding produces the best results. The best results are achieved if you take your time and spray thin layers over the entire rink rather than allowing it to gather in a large pool.
Flooding a backyard in winter is a common technique for building a hockey rink in your backyard. The flood the flood method is simply that flooding. If you take time to flood you rink the ice quality vastly improves. I prefer flooding my backyard ice rink when the weather is at least almost 10 degrees celsius 14 degrees fahrenheit and when it is not snowing and not windy.
She said it s also not safe to flood a rink below 20 c. Flood the rink.