How to fix a hole in a plastic kiddie pool!

[hollyravenheart]

You can fix a hole in your kiddie pool, good as new, for free or extremely cheap! My husband was shoveling the foot of new snow out of our ducks kiddie pool when he got a little too carried away and ripped an inch hole in the bottom. After much googling I came up with my own method based off of kayak repair techniques and it works!!!!! I’m so thankful! And so are our 3 ducks who love their pond. Not to mention, it’s winter here with more than a foot of snow and would be near impossible to fix with our drain installation and task of finding a new pool in the middle of winter. I pulled out a big summer umbrella to keep the new falling snow off the work space and to keep the extension cord dry. You will need: a hot glue gun, rubbing alcohol, some rags, utility knife, plastic bag and an extension cord. If you have all that stuff already, you can do this project for free!!!! Otherwise you can pick up a hot glue gun for around $10. First remove the glue stick by heating it up then pluck it out backwards, if it’s too short of a stick, sacrifice and extrude it so that your glue gun is empty. Next throughly clean the tip so there is no glue or dried glue residue. I used the rag dipped in alcohol that I cleaned the hole with to scrub off the stained glue residue while it was hot. Use the utility knife to trim a small piece off the rim of your pool, you won’t miss it, I promise. Wash your trimming thoroughly with an alcohol rag, next clean around the hole with alcohol. Dry thoroughly. I stuffed a plastic bag under the hole in the pool, careful not to crack the pool in the freezing weather. Not sure I needed to do that step but I was going for super clean and dry. Next use the tip of the hot glue gun to melt the edges of your hole and use your pool trimming to weld and fill in any gaps. I put a few extra layers of melted trimming over the whole thing but I’m sure that was overkill. Then I used the hot tip to smooth it out nice, you can’t even tell that it’s repaired! There will be no picking at it and it will last because it’s all the same plastic!

 

[Jpat]

Plastic welding! Very nice

 

[hollyravenheart]

Plastic welding! Very nice

Yeah! Way better that hot glue or duck tape which seems to be the popular choice.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Great job there thanks for sharing!!

 

[casportpony]

Thanks for the tip!