Folding Padlling Pool

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Furton

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In need of a new paddling for the kids who are 4 & 6 years old and have outgrown our tiny baby pool. I've seen a few fold up paddling pools which look much easier to store than the blow up pools which never go back into their original box. Has anyone used these types of pools? Any pro's/cons?


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Pros:
- You don't have to blow it up.
- It won't get a puncture.
- It's probably easier to store.

Cons:
- It's harder for the kids to get into, because it's higher.
- It's probably more expensive.
- It's less comfortable to sit in.
- It's less fun because it's not "bouncy".
- It takes longer to fill because it's quite big.
 
sovietspybob said:
Yeah don't underestimate just how MUCH water something like that takes, could take hours to fill from a normal garden hose.
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I bought one of Costco's circular larger paddling pools. When then sun came, we eagerly litter picked (doggy doo) the lawn, mowed it and then set it up no probs. I then put the hose in it and left it to fill.
and left it
and left it.

I started on the Monday afternoon around 1pm and turned it off overnight - didn;t want it over-filling! The hose went back in/on first thing next day and it ran all day. AGAIN it wasn;t full by the end of the day (about 2/3rd full), so off wen the hose overnight and on day 3 it went back in/on to complete the fill.

....and then as to be expected in good old blighty, the weather changed. We left the pool full for a week before finally giving up on the idea, and so I pulled the handy little plug. The water level slowly dropped and ran out, hydrating the garden and lawn.... and unbeknownst to me it also flooded part of the house (we have a raised lawn, the rear of the property). Our Parquet floor over the next few years has gradually rotted.

Motto/learnings:
1. Make sure you can fill it in time to enjoy it.
2. When emptying it, make sure you have somewhere for the water to GO.
 
Tattysnuc said:
2. When emptying it, make sure you have somewhere for the water to GO.
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This was my first thought.

The effort of filling our small pool, is dwarfed by the hassle of emptying it. I'm typically ferrying buckets of water to every corner of the garden before finally pulling the plug and letting it dump the rest in situ.

I dread to think of the effort it would be to avoid having this turn the garden into a swamp. I'd imagine you'd almost certainly need to be able to syphon off into a drain or similar.
 
sometimes you see fairly big paddling pools on apartment balconies, I always wonder if they realise 1litre of water weights 1kg and how safe it really is.


google suggests minimum building reg is 200kg per square meter so average balcony probably takes 270kg.

that's only 3 of me and I'm not obese, just tall
 
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A neighbour has one like the OP... Fills it and empties it daily last week and in the last heatwave too... About 6-8 times in total (2 periods of 3-4 days) Abhorrent abuse of water TBQFH
 
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