easy water slide upgrade: 7 steps (with pictures)

Traditionally, summer is a time when the weather gets hot, including gardens and slides.
Kids will love the garden when it\'s hot outside, but they don\'t like the quality of the baking tray for good sunheated slide.
Here I show you how to make up for this by turning regular slides into themes
Park level attractions-a water slide!
This note is about something I almost pieced together in flight on a very hot day.
I \'ve had this idea floating in my mind for years, but only my kids complained that their slides were too hot and I finally had time to make it --
It turns out it\'s easy to do too!
As always, I invite you to view my videos on my YouTube channel about this topic (
Or just in this note).
Not only will you see the slides there, but you will also see the running water, which is, as we all know, a very comforting thing. Material stool *(
For a theme park that is small enough and mediocre)
Basically, this is an item that \"inserts everything and opens it.
So, first of all, you need to put the foot of the slide into the children\'s pool, which means putting the children\'s pool at the foot of the slide.
If your slide is bolted to the ground at the bottom, this is obviously not an option --
Unless you can unlock it in an unstable situation (
That is, as long as the top is also bolted down).
Mine is only attached to the top so I can lift my feet far enough to slide the empty children\'s pool below.
To protect the pool, you can (and should)
Put a few pieces of wood at the foot of the slide in the swimming pool.
In our case, the slide has been dug to the ground, so the extra surface of the wood makes the bottom of the pool not destroyed.
If you have a metal slide or something with bolts, you may also need to protect your pool from sharp edges.
Place the pool so that the slide is as close to the edge as possible so that the children have enough space to play in the pool --
And slide into it without damaging it, or worse, slide into it itself.
Look at the first picture and see what I mean.
Connect the hose to the pump.
Depending on your pump, this can be achieved by simply pushing it onto the hose connector, but it may also be necessary for the hose clamp to tighten it, or even for some dedicated fittings for proprietary connectors.
At this point, I assume that your pump is connected to it in a waterproof way with at least a short cable on it.
Fiddling with the connection and then finding yourself under water is not a good idea and there is no plug of any kindand-
Socket connection in the pool.
I think there may be a version of this, but I prefer the built-in-in and factory-
Seal deals for any day.
If you have a pump with a filter, sieve or any pump that prevents it from inhaling non-water materials, you should consider adding a protection to your pump.
I used a flying screen with rubber bands.
Keep in mind that either clean it regularly or add an spacer under it to prevent the mesh from being sucked into the air intake.
Then your pump needs to enter the reservoir.
You need to make sure it has enough water to breathe in at any time, I. e.
It is at least submerged as the design requirements.
If there\'s still room there, it\'s better to put it under the slide.
Usually, the circular pool wall should give you at least a space between the sliding foot and the said pool wall.
If necessary, move the pool slightly backwards to accommodate the pump or place it next to the slide (
But still in the pool).
Just make sure it\'s out of the way --
For security reasons, and because you don\'t want your child to fiddle with any connections that may exist, or even dial.
Since the water should run down the slide, it needs to get up first.
The hose needs to go up to make sure this happens, but it also has to aim down to guide the flow
And for a pleasant sliding experience.
The easiest way to achieve this is to tape it down with tape or something like that.
However, in order to make it easier and more stable, you can also use the spring clip to hold the hose in place so that it does not take the full weight on the tape alone.
Keep in mind that children will definitely slide on this slide (
Otherwise all our efforts are in vain)
, So make sure there are no accessories or connectors on the hose, and when you move your hand down, the hose is as smooth as possible.
You can connect the top and hell with beauty and neatness
Of course, this is an acceptable option and a convenient excuse not to cut the hose short
Or you can run the hose along the underside of the slide, connect it with adhesive tape or slat as a guide rail for the hose and somehow attach it to the top and bottom for easy installation.
In this szenario, you can cut the hose to the length you actually need, or you can store any remaining parts in the reservoir with the pump.
If you\'re lucky, all you need to do now is plug in the pump and you\'re done.
If you\'re not that lucky, all you need to do now is plug in the pump and you\'re done --
But in this case, it will take some extra steps to insert it.
Connect the external power supply of your choice to the pump and make sure to use the appropriate polarity.
If the pump itself has some sort of plug, there may be some tips for the manual or the pump itself, but you can also test this carefully by connecting two pinssecond (
That is, connect one and then touch the other against the respective connectors)
See if the pump starts the way you want it.
This can damage the pump, so please use this method at your own discretion.
Once you have the right way to connect, you can use a sturdy connector like a gloss terminal to connect the pump.
Depending on where this terminal is in your final design, you may want to give it a few layers of tape to make sure it stays safe for at least some time.
In my case, I have a cable that sticks out two wires from the pump.
I connect them to a cable long enough for me to get to where my power supply is waiting, and then I connect them to the proper lead of the power supply, the lead of 12 V.
There should be some reference for this power supply.
You can also use car batteries if you have this tendency (
And proper care)
Power the pump at shutdownthe-grid location.
Now plug it in and open it (
Unless you have a set like this.
Once inserted, it opens automatically.
In this case, just insert it).
The water should start to flow up through the hose and create cracks on the slide.
It may seem small (
Or in my case)
But it is enough to keep it calm with the children.
Just make sure there is always enough water in the water pump in the reservoir and maybe tell your child that they should not splash water everywhere (
The possibility of success is very small)
Or at least let them not take the water out of the pool and play elsewhere.
If you explain to them that it may break if the pump is running dry and they may even last for a while, it may also be true.
Now you\'re done.
Your new waterslide is running and cooling and it\'s available for kids.
On the other hand, I make videos in English and German and you can check the German version of this project here.
There are two more steps here, both of which are theoretical thinking about the two topics that may help to further improve the design, but I haven\'t tried it myself.
If you are not interested in these, let me now thank you for checking my instructions, please consider voting support!
As usual, remember to be inspired!
Imagine that you have a slide that is bolted to both ends, no (reasonable)
The method of removing these bolts.
Maybe you have such a case in your hand that you don\'t even have to imagine.
Anyway, here are some ideas that might help you still turn the slides into water slides.
One way, of course, is not to use a reservoir, but to pour the water out and potentially create your own private swamp.
If your child slides into the mud all the time, with the swamp monster.
This is a collection of my ideas about slides that don\'t work exactly the way my slides do.
This is by no means a conclusive list, and if you have further ideas and solutions, please post them in the comments below so others can benefit as well.
Also, please remember not to damage the property that is not your destruction.
I can drill holes or put screws into the slide in the way I think it is appropriate, although it is certainly in my best interest to keep it in working condition, lest I be angry by the children
Do not damage the property of others in any way, even if you use it in a way that does not leave any trace (
Love my original design)
, It\'s always a good move to ask the owner before you actually put your hands on their slide.
Speaking of which, you can make a sieve.
Drill holes near the bottom of the slide so that when you place the children\'s pool below, the water flows in or drops into it.
This will obviously damage the slides and you need to be very careful not to make any sharp edges or corners, especially metal slides.
The larger number of small holes takes precedence over the smaller ones and burrs them-
On plastic and metal. is a must.
If you do, run it over and over again in the sieve section and in both directions with paper towels.
If it gets caught anywhere, do something about that place.
Also keep in mind that water may flow along the inside of the slide after passing through the hole, rather than falling directly.
If you really want to start with a test hole, check if the water running through it will run the way you want it.
If not, you can put something on the underside of the slide to let the water flow where you want it, such as a piece of wood connected with the right glue or screw.
But at this point, you need to be satisfied with your serious improvisation solution. The in-
Water ski bag.
The idea here is to create something that will be caught at the bottom of the slide where the slope meets the ground to create a pocket that flows.
This pocket is then connected to the reservoir with a hose, so it should be slightly higher than the reservoir to make sure the water returns to where it should arrive.
It requires a good seal with slides, which can be achieved by creatively using caulking or rubber materials.
More importantly, though, this pocket does not interfere with the sliding experience. e.
It is impossible for a child to get caught in any part of the slide.
If this happens, any amount of damage may occur, which is never a good idea (
Also, I am not responsible for any harm caused using my ideas and instructions).
To do this, the best way might be to grab the water as close to the ground as possible and let anything you add to the slide as far away as possible from the path of slidee, while keeping the appropriate height difference, keep the water flowing freely.
As you can see, there are many ways to cool the cat, and with a little improvisation you can do the job anywhere.
Tell me what you came up with in the comments!
The water slide may be something that children can have fun with, just playing with water.
But why not revise the idea to achieve more goals on the basis of keeping the children busy?
How to take care of their health while saving electricity?
The idea here is to build a hand
Operate the pump in one of the many ways that can be found on the Internet.
For example, you can use this design, or you can use this design-
Building a working pump yourself is not as difficult as you think.
Put it next to the slide and maybe replace the hose (or part of it)
With PVC pipes, the child can pump water and slide it down, or the child can pump water in turn.
This is beyond the scope of these thoughts, but you can also use a reservoir on the top that will allow the pump to work for a few minutes.
Of course, you can always do this in the simplest way --
Each child has a bucket to lift his own water from the slide.
Thank you again for checking this manual and remember to be inspired as always!