Bob
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I've just started thinking about getting the paddling pool out.
Ours isn't massive but it does hold a lot of water (It takes about 4/5 hours to fill) and because of the British weather, not wanting to kill the grass, water getting filthy brown and full of bugs we don't have the filter set up, it needs to be emptied after a days use, two at most and there are probably only 3 weekends a year when it comes out so it really isn't worth paying out for the heater/pump system.
The problem we have is that it's freezing. Last year we put boiling water in from 30 kettles and it didn't seem to make the slightest bit of difference to the pool temperature.
I'm hoping some clever person here can help me find a solution, my idea would be to have something similar to and electric cooker hob, in a cage so it doesn't melt the sides of the pool that can just be plugged in for an hour or so, and avoid inducing hypothermia, or something similar to the opposite of ice cubes, maybe balls that can go in the oven then get chucked in the pool but no such products seem to exist.
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Ours isn't massive but it does hold a lot of water (It takes about 4/5 hours to fill) and because of the British weather, not wanting to kill the grass, water getting filthy brown and full of bugs we don't have the filter set up, it needs to be emptied after a days use, two at most and there are probably only 3 weekends a year when it comes out so it really isn't worth paying out for the heater/pump system.
The problem we have is that it's freezing. Last year we put boiling water in from 30 kettles and it didn't seem to make the slightest bit of difference to the pool temperature.
I'm hoping some clever person here can help me find a solution, my idea would be to have something similar to and electric cooker hob, in a cage so it doesn't melt the sides of the pool that can just be plugged in for an hour or so, and avoid inducing hypothermia, or something similar to the opposite of ice cubes, maybe balls that can go in the oven then get chucked in the pool but no such products seem to exist.
Admin Edit: Posts moved a new thread.