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Fastest way to fill a back garden pool

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  • 29-06-2018 08:52PM
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    Conservatory
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    Spent the evening rigging a 3/4 inch pipe from the attic tank down to the pool. I had to drain the tank which is a bit of a **** thing to do with the water shortage but worth it. It’s a huge pool about the size of a normal patio I half filled it tonight to see how it goes. Took about an hour and a half. I’d say it’ll be quicker once the tank fills right up and increases the pressure.

    So people of after hours, while I wait for the pool to drain and have a can, what’s the quickest way to fill a pool?


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    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,303 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Invite everybody around for a piss?


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Popcorn is'a pop'n :D


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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Get a farmer with a slurry spreader to pump some water out of the local river and fill it for you.

    Water might be a bit sh1tty, but at least you'll have the pool filled quick


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    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    A hosepipe ban is coming into force on Monday, so fill your boots (not literally, as that would be unnecessary and uncomfortable) between now and then.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/heatwave/ireland-swelters-amid-confirmation-a-hosepipe-ban-is-to-be-imposed-in-dublin-from-monday-37064414.html


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    beertons
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    Work away, don't mind them. They'll get desperate in a few days, out to go au natural.


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    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    A hosepipe ban is coming into force on Monday, so fill your boots (not literally, as that would be unnecessary and uncomfortable) between now and then.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/heatwave/ireland-swelters-amid-confirmation-a-hosepipe-ban-is-to-be-imposed-in-dublin-from-monday-37064414.html

    It’s not a hose pipe it’s 3/4 inch qual-pex direct from my tank.


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    Hammer89
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    Blast it with piss.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    I have an outside tap and a hose

    The joys of middle age


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    yesto24
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    Spent the evening rigging a 3/4 inch pipe from the attic tank down to the pool. I had to drain the tank which is a bit of a **** thing to do with the water shortage but worth it. It’s a huge pool about the size of a normal patio I half filled it tonight to see how it goes. Took about an hour and a half. I’d say it’ll be quicker once the tank fills right up and increases the pressure.

    So people of after hours, while I wait for the pool to drain and have a can, what’s the quickest way to fill a pool?

    I thought you were some kind of plumber, working on the sites and all that.
    With all your experience and perfect health, I would have thought you would have the solution in your non-office job brain.


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    Conservatory
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I have an outside tap and a hose

    The joys of middle age

    It was on the list. But then I said feck it if they cut the pressure I want to have a feed off my tank for the pool.


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    yesto24 wrote: »
    I thought you were some kind of plumber, working on the sites and all that.
    With all your experience and perfect health, I would have thought you would have the solution in your non-office job brain.

    I did hence the 3/4 inch pipe off the tank.


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    TallGlass
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    Standpipe key and bar, bit of 60mm hose and you'll be done in 7mins.


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    Yer Da sells Avon
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    It’s not a hose pipe it’s 3/4 inch qual-pex direct from my tank.

    Oh, well that's ok then.


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    Conservatory
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    TallGlass wrote: »
    Standpipe key and bar, bit of 60mm hose and you'll be done in 7mins.

    I thought of that but I think it’s a legal grey area.


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    EPAndlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭EPAndlee


    When your finished using it as a pool just put in some fish and use it as a pond


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    Conservatory
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    EPAndlee wrote: »
    When your finished using it as a pool just put in some fish and use it as a pond

    Then I’d have to feed them and all. Feck that.


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    #18
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Build the pool in the sea


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    #19
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    hairyslug wrote: »
    Build the pool in the sea

    The thread title says fill a back garden pool.

    I like your ingenuity I really do. But it’s too late to start a thread asking how to move the sea to the back garden.


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    #20
    Conservatory
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    Draining away nicely think I’ll go inside. Don’t want to get my feet wet.


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    kneemos
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    Draining away nicely think I’ll go inside. Don’t want to get my feet wet.


    Have you got a lifeguard for that thing?


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    kneemos wrote: »
    Have you got a lifeguard for that thing?

    It was only a test and half filled. Tomorrow I might have to get the red shorts on.


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    Atoms for Peace
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    Draining away nicely think I’ll go inside. Don’t want to get my feet wet.

    What's in the cage?


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    Conservatory
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    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    What's in the cage?

    The wife.

    It’s an old fire guard keeping all the junk that needs to be skipped away from the baby. The amount of skips I’m going through lately, jaysis that’s a whole new thread. A lot of home improvements being forced upon me.


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    Hammer89
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    Draining away nicely think I’ll go inside. Don’t want to get my feet wet.

    How do you feel when people insult travellers on here?


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    #26
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    Hammer89 wrote: »
    How do you feel when people insult travellers on here?

    I told the clock fella he cracked me up every time and I got a mod thingy.

    I don’t mind travelers though. When I was young there was a halting site across the road from my house. We went to school together.


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    Hammer89
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    I told the clock fella he cracked me up every time and I got a mod thingy.

    I don’t mind travelers though. When I was young there was a halting site across the road from my house. We went to school together.

    I was actually suggesting that your back garden looks a bit like a travellers front garden, as a joke. That's what John Connors meant when he said he had a swimming pool in his gaf.


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    #28
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    Hammer89 wrote: »
    I was actually suggesting that your back garden looks a bit like a travellers front garden, as a joke. That's what John Connors meant when he said he had a swimming pool in his gaf.

    Ah it’s not Facebook people have real lives. I’ve a bathroom to redo. New downstairs floors and a bit of a kitchen rejig on while I work full time.

    Do the kids still say #nofilter


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    #29
    Conservatory
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    Do golf courses still water their grass today?


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    #30
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Looks like you might want to move it from resting on the edge of those bricks.


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    Pherekydes
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    Do golf courses still water their grass today?

    No unnecessary water usage, so no.

    Entire thread is a thinly veiled "look at me: I'm wasting water before the ban comes in" hard man shtick.


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