Ice Building Question

[Gummer12 134]

We start laying water tomorrow for the season. We've always used normal tap temp water, but I'm interested in trying hot water this year to see if there's any difference. Just curious as to if there are any areas of installation that you can or can not use Hot Water. I'm leaning away from using hot water to seal the white paint, and the paint lines. Anyone with extensive experience that could educate me in the quickest and most efficient techniques. Thanks :)

[sabby47 2]

We just built up our Olympic sheet of ice last week...

After painting the lines and circles we seal them in using water in one of those bug spray/plant spray devices (sorry can't think of what it's technically called, but you can fill it with about 6 gallons of liquid) Usually do it twice, after letting it freeze once. After that we take a 6 ft wide mister and run it length wise once or twice then get off the ice to let it freeze for about 45 mins, repeat until built up enough to start flooding.

[Gummer12 134]

Right, we do the same thing, Just want to know if you use Hot or Cold water for what processes. I'm thinking using Hot for the first two base clear coats...then maybe Hot for the White coat...then cold to seal it...and cold to cover the paint lines and seal coats...then hot to flood

[steve66 45]

I remember reading these two articles a while ago, and whilst I can't remember specifically whether it addresses the issue of hot water at the stage you're at, I think you will find them very interesting reads....

http://canucks.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=...mp;service=page

http://www.usahockey.com/Template_USAH_STA...etailedNews=yes -this one is a bit long, but is good to see how they built it up over the days and maintained the surface

[UMWhockey 0]

don't use hot water for painting because it will bleed all the paint. You want to use cold water, but in light amounts as you want it to snap freeze. The goal is to trap as little air in the ice as possible. One of the big reasons hot water is used for the resurfacers is because when it freezes it doesn't trap as much air as cold water does. Hot water doesn't freeze faster like people think. That is not why hot water is used. Also the white paint will not apply very well with warm or hot water. I beleive with most paints the water temp needs to be below 50 degres along with having the slab or sand around 15 degrees.