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Permalink Reply by DAVID OUTZEN on
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Hi Michael,
I have about a 20" slope from corner to corner. Make sure that you have the boards well braced...that much water results in alot of pressure. As soon as I see a couple of cold days coming (single digit or less) I put in my liner (purchased through a company called "NICERINK") and fill my rink with water. After that Mother Nature takes over. That usually establishes my ice base of 3-4 inches. That base will gradually get thicker and thicker over the course of time (every night when the temps dip below 32 degrees your ice base will be getting thicker). When testing the strength of your ice always do it in street shoes first...if the ice breaks you won't tear your liner with your skate blades. Once the ice is solid I trim off the excess liner and put up kickboards around the rink. I purchase a new liner every year so that I don't have to worry about holes from the previous year. Best of luck with your rink!
David
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Permalink Reply by Daniel robitaille on -
Have have about 12 -15 inches to fill
I set my hose on mist and spray it into the air this build up slush at about 1/2 inch in about 1/2 hour
I just place the hose in back of a chair come back and move it around every half hour to cover different areas of my rink (25X46)
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Permalink Reply by Bob Greenfield on -
I have a similar idea but instead of putting a floor down I'm considering something a bit different:
I have about a 10 inch slope. The deep end brackets have come up quite a bit, lifting about 12 feet of boards on the long side of my 20x40 foot rink. Everything is holding fine, but yesterday we had a bunch of people on the ice, and I believe the weight of having people on the ice forced the water from under the ice up from the sides, resulting in a good size puddle along the deep end. That then quickly turned to slush. We skated around it but I'd prefer to avoid that. Since the deep end ice is cantilevered from the shallow end, I'm wondering about shoring up my deep end ice to address the heavy weight on the deep end for next year.
What I wonder is if I put in a few cinder blocks right on the liner before filling it all with water. Instead of the weight from skaters pushing the ice slab down into the water underneath (and pushing the water up), the blocks could support the ice slab.
The water depth on my deep end is 14 inches. If a cinder block is 10 inches thick, and the ice slab is 5 or 6 inches thick, then the slab would form around the cinder blocks, and then act like posts to support the ice slab and perhaps also take some of the weight off the side boards. I wonder if this would also reduce the amount of water coming up when people are on the ice?
It's something I'm considering for next season. Any thoughts or suggestions about this approach?
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Permalink Reply by Daniel robitaille on
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Bob
There a few Dads around here that had to deal with slope they ended up putting down some skids then cover that with old carpet then lay their liner on top and filled (used less water)
The blocks are a cool Idea and might work but I would be worry they would Move down hill as the weight is apply and make a hole in the liner
You have a year to find scrap wood and carpeting or to level your yard.
but if you do try the block let us know how it worked
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Permalink Reply by mike sander on -
I have had the same problem for a couple of years. I tried just about everything to keep the water from coming up around the edges. My slope went from 5 inches of water to 18 inches of water. My solution was to level out my yard, made a huge difference. Especially with such a mild winter here in Pa. this year. Now my average depth is 5 inches. It cost some for rental equipment but to me it was worth it, rather than the headaches.
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