Reply to: Paddling pools

[Uncle Albert]

I found a video of Pogle in her paddling pool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGVs0d8wknU

[MicrosoftBob]

What? They photographed my house. Closest you'll get is appearing on crimewatch.

INKSPE!

[MarillionFan]

If you are trying to pass off the Daily Mail photo as your own, at least take of the copyright

What? They photographed my house. Closest you'll get is appearing on crimewatch.

[SimonMac]

Paddling pools. Lol.

Why not just build a proper pool like me?

If you are trying to pass off the Daily Mail photo as your own, at least take of the copyright

[DimPrawn]

That's a pool!

[MarillionFan]

Paddling pools. Lol.

Why not just build a proper pool like me?

[JRCT]

What did she do, drink it?

No. she'd spend the first 4 minutes putting one toe at a time in, screaming "IT'S FREEEEEEZIN'!". Then once fully submerged, she'd decide it would be hilarious to take a running jump, slip on the grass, land on top of the semi-inflated wall that my dad had half-heartedly blown up whilst still smoking a fag, before giving up with the words "That'll do", which would then pop under her weight. The rest of the afternoon was spent trying to fit the paddling pool in the bin (pre wheelie-bin days) and being told by my mum to stay off the lawn because there's too much water on it, even though the plan was to spend the afternoon in a pool.

[minestrone]

We had a rigid one - water got left in and it went green and slimy. Lethal!

But what about the paddling pool?

[vwdan]

My childhood summers right there!

Haha, same. This is one of those threads that brought out the "Oh man, I'd almost forgotten that" memories in me.

[darmstadt]

When I was a kid we had one of those poxy 3 ring pools that took about 10 minutes to blow up, 10 minutes to fill and 10 minutes for my fat sister to burst.

What did she do, drink it?

[DimPrawn]

DailyMail has the answer!

Boy killed by brain-eating amoeba in tap water: First confirmed case of death by N. fowleri organism in treated water in the US | Daily Mail Online

[Dallas]

• Leave it full for a few days.
• Treat water with sun cream, grass cuttings, mud and maybe a little dog tulip.
• To empty: get all the kids to sit on one side and let the whole lot flood across the lawn (preferably get the dog to stand in the flood and watch him go mental - very funny).

My childhood summers right there!

[Project Monkey]

I've just ordered a paddling pool for the little one. It's 7.5 foot diameter and holds 772L of water.

So, I have a few questions to those of you that may have something similar.

Do you empty it each time you use it, or leave it full for a few days at a time?

If the latter do you treat it with chlorine? Any issues with that?

How do you empty it? Just straight onto the lawn or syphon into the drain? I imagine that could take a while.

When I was a kid we had one of those poxy 3 ring pools that took about 10 minutes to blow up, 10 minutes to fill and 10 minutes for my fat sister to burst.

Things are different now. I feel like I've bought a swimming pool.

• Leave it full for a few days.
• Treat water with sun cream, grass cuttings, mud and maybe a little dog tulip.
• To empty: get all the kids to sit on one side and let the whole lot flood across the lawn (preferably get the dog to stand in the flood and watch him go mental - very funny).

[PurpleGorilla]

A bit deeper than that (1m)3 is around 1000 litres.

The metric imperial is twisting my gorilla brain.

[NotAllThere]

So the water is 13" deep. I'd certainly replace it at least every two days. The decent weather seldom lasts longer than that anyway.