Hey There, first timer here. We have a decent sized pond behind our house but my boys (Ages 6,4,2) want there own rink in the backyard so I'm giving it a go. No more than a 4" drop in elevation from end to end. Using plywood for the boards, heavy duty white poly tarp for the liner and have some...

I posted an intro about a week ago but it was never posted? Did I do something wrong?

Hi. Guys! So rink construction went awesome dropping the liner in no problem, now I started filling as cold weather is on the way and everything was going great until I noticed on my shallow end the liner looked wet underneath. I noticed a small 1" tear in the liner, guessing it was from being ...

Here's my first attempt at a rink. Made sure I added bracing every 2 feet and every foot in my deep corner. Still have the small tear issue but the deep freeze has finally set in. The one thing I realized after the fact was no inner boards to absorb the pucks when there bouncing around (don't want t...

I went on our rink for the first time with my son and I'm already planning out next years build!! I haven't been that happy to be skating in a longtime. He LOVED it, we had a blast. I learned so much for this site so a HUGE thank you to everybody! Definitely stepping up my game next year but for now...

Jeez, that dwarfs our rink. It's only 18x32 but next year definitely gonna go the full length of the yard which I'm guessing is 60+ and width of 40+. My kids begged me to go on it again tonight after dinner and it's only 15 degrees but they didn't care! I'm just happy they are happy!!

Ok soooo here's my problem that I'm now obsessing about. Skated today as the rink is frozen solid temps have been close to 0 for a few days. Skated today with my boy and then again tonight. I figured I'd clean it up for him tonight and resurface it. When I started resurfacing with warm water things ...

As usual, thanks for the reply! Skate On!

Well I'd say then its a definite that we upgrade. They were on it for about 12 hours Saturday!!! Then up again at 8am Sunday to do it all over again. Ive learned so much from doing this that Ill be much better equipped for next year and plan on starting the process in the spring. Even our planned re...

That's exactly what I did. Seemed to work out great! I wish I could post pics but for some reason the site keep saying there to big (Even from my iPhone?)

Its been blast!