How to get a warm paddling pool instantly WITHOUT lugging buckets from the kitchen OR using the kettle
Thankfully there is an easy hack to get your pool full of warm water in minutes.
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While many people rely on an outdoor tap with cold water to add the water, you should go directly from the warm tap inside.
If your hose doesn't attach to your inside tap, a mum shared how she gets around this issue.
TikTok user @healthandlovingmyself shared how you simply need to fill up a watering can with warm water, and put the hose inside the nozzle.
The water will then travel down the pipe and fill up your pool with the hot water.
The best part of the hack is you don't need to spend hours lugging buckets of warm water outside - and don't need to constantly refill the kettle.
Many people were very impressed with the hack and wondered why they hadn't thought of it before.
One person wrote: 'I was 40 years old.. Thnx.'
Another added: 'Smart.'
However, one user commented: 'The water bill.'
And a second said: 'More fun when its cold.'
The clever way you can ensure your paddling pool is kept warm
BIN BAG HACK
We previously shared how a woman has come up with the ultimate hack to heating up the water in her chilly paddling pool - and it just requires a bin bag.
She told Tyla how she was fed up of going back and forth with kettles to keep the water warm outside.
Lainey Thomson decided to instead place a bin bag on the top to attract the heat from the sun.
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She revealed: "I did this because I only have a cold outside tap and I was using buckets and the kettle to warm up the pool.
"By putting black bin bags on top it attracts the sun and it warms it up very quickly. Within about 45 minutes the water is warm and stays warm all day in the sun."
The idea was first floated on the Mrs Hinch Made Me Do It Facebook group, when one woman asked for advice to heat her 8ft freezing cold paddling pool.
One person advised: "Fill with cold from outside tap then cover with black bin bags. Leave for an hour!"
'The sun is drawn to the black bags and heats it up. Works a treat every time," one person commented.
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