Is there a tested way to keep water from a very small pool safe week to week? Think of the ~20 cm deep hard plastic ones meant for children.
I can water the plants, but I would like to reuse the water all summer. I imagine a closed cycle container with a filter, pump, and chlorine in a 50 gal drum. While I could devise my own, it seems best not to.
Thanks!
It’s better to use it for watering plants. Get yourself a little scrub brush on a mop pole and you can scrub it quickly with a little bit of dish soap.
Thanks. I will likely continue watering the plans.
As a father of multiple children, don’t bother. It’ll get dirty with debris and insects and grass with kids using it long before your filter would be needed. Just empty and refill when it gets dirty.
Will do, thank you.
There are small filters that hang hoses over the side.
You’ll spend more running the filter, treating the water (and testing it) than simply replacing it.
From my own pool experience the smaller the volume, the harder it is to keep balanced. Even a 12’ pool can be a challenge.
Thank you. I have heard that the chemicals are nearly impossible to dose correctly in smaller volumes.
Elsewhere some have suggested aquarium filters…
They do exist, google floating pool filters/chlorinators.
Ah, thanks for some names of items!