How to heat up the paddling pool?

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HAve been putting numerous kettles of water in but it's no warmer. Kids won't go in. Any other suggestions? Just wait for sun to heat? Which will take forever.

Roll the hose out so it is stretched out fully in sunlight. Run water through hose but stop it at the end. The hose will get warm/hot and the water inside it will get warm too. Eco friendly solution..

It’s about 20 degrees here today, feels roasting! We haven’t had ours out yet but when we do I fill it up first thing and leave it in the sun to warm up, then top up with a couple of kettles if required.

This is crazy to me - I grew up in Australia, in a really genuinely cold place (yep, they do exist). We would have been laughed at if we had tried to heat up paddle pools with hot water. Just a non-starter. You put up with the cold - we had a rule when I was a kid that was no swimming below 12 degrees, so we're not talking about a warm place. It was rarely over 25 even on a hot Summer day, and I remember a couple of swimming carnivals where non-competitors were wearing coats (including staff - at a primary school carnival!). I'm in Manchester now and the weather is quite similar (more rain in Manchester, ofc, but temperature about the same).

Nevertheless, it was a childhood ritual to get freezing cold in the pool, and it wasn't really an option to have warmed water (even though it was always freezing because you put the pool in the shade to avoid high UV days). If we'd tried to add warm water I think the pool would have been taken down and confiscated for the season.

Is it really necessary? If kids won't get in, then the pool doesn't get put up again. Easy.

How else will they learn to be brave and do hard things?! :P

@Emmerage where in Australia is the climate like that pls? Genuine question.

You could purchase a submersible fountain pump, connect it to a black hose pipe and snake the hose over your garden (even better, put black plastic under the hose) so the water flows through and returns to the pool. This would effectively create a solar water heater.

[quote ohnoquickhide]@Emmerage where in Australia is the climate like that pls? Genuine question. [/quote]
Where I'm from is a small village in Central Tablelands of NSW, but there are a lot of places as cold, if not colder and more rainy. There are snow fields in Thredbo in NSW. Other parts of the Northern Tablelands of NSW and Blue Mountains of NSW are similar, and parts of the Southern Highlands (although some parts do get a bit hotter in Summer). Tasmania, especially south towards Antarctica is cold virtually year round, and there are also parts of Victoria very similar to colder parts of NSW. It's not uncommon.

Lots of places on this list have typically British weather: www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=f&sc=cold

We just had an outdoor hot tap fitted just for this, £60 and done in 45 minutes. Wish I though of it years ago