Winter vacation – excellent opportunity to children to learn to skate, skis, to play hockey. It is much more convenient to do it if the skating rink is in the yard. The child will be under your supervision, you will not worry for the child. Organize the parents wishing to take care of active holiday for the children and fill in skating rink near your house.
It is required to you
- - water;
- - hose;
- - spray.
Instruction
1. Find rather flat and big platform in the yard. Also the skating rink about five by five meters in size, and round or oval will be suitable for games of kids. Stamp or roll snow, it will be the skating rink basis. Its thickness has to be about five centimeters.
2. From snow if the site has no boards, make the breastwork 20 centimeters high. Wait for frost in 5-8 degrees, above – water long will not freeze. It is better to use hydrant and trunk with the spray. But also the normal rubber hose will approach.
3. That the skating rink has turned out uniform and equal, put on the spray. If to fill in with stream, ice will turn out layered with flows, will crumble when driving, and at hard frost from 15 degrees water will freeze unevenly. The top layer in this case can crack and fail in the formed emptiness.
4. Via the spray pour small water layer (about a centimeter that was well chilled). Take break for 2-3 hour that ice was formed of water. Raise dust the following layer. Do not leave hose on ice – under it the roughness is formed. It will be better if the assistant holds hose while you spray water.
5. At snowfall purify ice from snow before each filling. If the severe snowstorm, is better to postpone work until more favorable weather. Leyte water, standing back by wind.
6. Freeze on ice layer in 10-15 centimeters that skating rink it was possible to use all season. Then, of course, it is necessary to fill in water still more than once. In one day of driving about 1-2 centimeters of ice are cut off by skates.
7. Hot water smooth down ice after operation. Make big mop and water rag with hot water, moving it on ice.
8. Make putty to eliminate deep furrows and big holes. When you conceive to do the following filling, knead in bucket porridge from snow and water. Fill with this porridge roughnesses and defects of ice. Wait for putty freezing, straighten with scraper sleet. After that begin to fill in skating rink.