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Originally Posted by ravenne
... it took us about 10 days to get a first ice wall. Now we have 0 degree AND the sunīs come out  shining directly on the ice wall; I tried to safe it by arranging three sunshades around it in the garden and putting the form board around it again. Donīt know, if this will help. That sounds a little crazy, doesntīit? Well, itīs just a way to kill time in winter and to motivate the children to go outside even if itīs real cold... |
Could try adding some paper to it and turn it into
pykrete
"Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86 percent ice by weight. ...Pykrete has some interesting properties, notably its relatively slow melting rate (due to low thermal conductivity), and its vastly improved strength and toughness over unmodified (crystalline) ice, actually closer to concrete. "