Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel i'm here to save you time
and money and today how to keep your paddling pool
nice and toasty warm,
right let's get cracking. Now I'm in my paddling pool at the moment and the
water temperature is a toasty 30 degrees centigrade even in the shady
part, and if you want to feel like you're in a
proper outdoor swimming pool check out my
outdoor swimming pool sound effect video, ideally what you need is a black
sheet but anything of a dark color is great now i've got this old
ground sheet from a tent and this is brown and this just attracts the heat
from the sun, what you're doing is you're laying this over the top of the
paddling pool when you're not using it,
not only does this heat the water up in the paddling pool but also stops all the
bugs and flies getting in the water,
so what i'm doing here is i'm just pulling it all the way over the top
obviously this is much easier if there's two of you one on either side,
one of the best things for heating your paddling ball is black bubble wrap but
this is very expensive to buy, but if you've got some of that
definitely use that,
it doesn't matter if it's touching the water, any air trapped underneath will
heat up and then heat the water now the power of the sun is absolutely
incredible this will definitely definitely make a
difference in heating up your paddling pool for
free, but obviously it only works if the sun is out!
Now this is just a quick demonstration of the power of the sun using a
magnifying glass and you can see how hot that is,
that's why you should always wear sun cream! Now this is 5 hours later after
i've had the cover on, the outside temperature in the shade is
31 degrees celsius so it's a really hot day here in England,
I'm just going to carry the thermometer over to the paddling pool
now i'm just going to test the water quickly with my hand before I put the
thermometer in,
and wow those top couple of inches of the paddling pool
are absolutely toasty warm really has made a massive difference
so i'm just going to put the thermometer in the top bit of the water
obviously heat rises so it's going to be colder at the bottom and it's actually
warmer than it is outside it's gone up to
about 32.5 degrees celsius, now i'm going to put the thermometer at the
bottom of the paddling pool where it will be a little bit cooler so
ideally what you need to do is every couple of hours
just put your hand in there and just give it a swish around mix up all the
cold and the hot water and just allow it all to settle again,
and there's a link above now about how to clean your uPVC window frames so they
stay clean.
And now this paddling pool is nice and toasty warm i think it's time i went in
and actually had a paddle
let's just remove the cover off,
what i'll do is after i've had a paddle i'll put the cover back on
and then leave it overnight and then we'll quickly test the temperature
the next morning, let's just wipe my feet
and climb in oh fantastic it's so warm
absolutely superb. This is the next morning and last night
it was about 21 degrees celsius at night so
not too bad i've got a thermometer out here
and the outside temperature is currently about 22 and a bit
degrees centigrade or celsius and let's just put this in the paddling
pool and see if it's maintained a bit of heat
not only does it help keep the heat inside the paddling pool obviously as i
said earlier it stops all the bugs and the flies getting in.
Let's just put it in the paddling pool
and we've got a temperature of
about 24 degrees celsius so it has dropped a bit
so leave that cover on in the sunshine when the sun comes out
it'll just start heating it back up again.
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