Ice Rink Instillation: Paper Lines

What’s good everyone for this episode we start the line lining process. It turned out much better than the paint job. We use paper lines over painting. Although paper lines are much faster and cheaper, paint is much sharper. We did use mesh dots and creases.
A special thanks to Andy, Jake, Jimmy, and the minor hockey dad. It took a better part of a day being short handled. Andy, the older gentleman, fell off a ladder a few days before and cracked a few bones. He was moving slow but was a big help. The minor hockey dad showed up out of nowhere to give a hand.
We had a enough people to start a second crew but no one was confident enough to take the lead and lay a line down. Two people can lay one line but three person crew is ideal with paper. Like with the paint process, a few more bodies would have been nice.
Questions and comments are much appreciated.
Thank you for Watching!
Your Local Ice Man
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[@Layotte0626]

Get yourselves an old pair of hockey knee pads. Absolute game changer over ordinary knee pads. They also allow you to slide a bit so you don’t have to get up and down so much.

[@scrapenbass493]

14:38 you try your best.....this is alot of work👍

[@barrycotter1665]

You can make life a lot easier by using a chalk line and use a dark colour and string the whole rink out, or atleast the red blue and goal lines, hash marks.

[@johnriley2061]

At the end of the season you can drill with a 1/2 inch drill in the center of each dot a quarter inch into the concrete. After the ice is out you fill the drill dents with yellow caution paint so they are easy to see. The next time you start make the ice after you spray the water you freeze a nut on each yellow spot and the center of your dots are all set. Then you run your three strings over the nuts and you are ready to go with much less measuring also stick a screw driver in the nut and make your circles.. I also drill in the goal line in the middle for the creases .... Works for us and we have been doing it for years .. Great Job

[@MUGFSW]

Amazing. I use serpentine in my back yard rink 🎉 thanks you for sharing

[@jhollywood9949]

Thanks for the video. I just finished painting the Ice with my bud at the arena we work at. This will definitely come in handy for me and my co workers . Thanks again👍

[@nelsonhumphrey9678]

For marking the lines and dots, could you install something in the concrete to see through the ice so you dont have to do so much layout when you have to drain and rebuild the ice?

[@palco22]

We must have the same teacher ! We do it the same way ! ............to a tee ! The only difference, our red dots are full and our goal crease are full blue. Best video for putting down lines, simple and easy to follow !

[@scottboese6892]

I’m excited we are trying paper lines this year we will see how it goes

[@TyTyson98]

One of my favorite videos you’ve made, great job! I have 2 questions: what’s the difference between textile and mesh freeze in lines/logos? And why didn’t you save and reuse the crease freeze in from last season?

[@YourLocalIceMan]

I think the textile and mesh are the same. Our creases were all ripped up. I could have reused and patched but the new ones look much sharper.

[@bc-guy852]

My first visit to your channel. I had no idea it was so much work! I 'had a connection' and got to be behind the timekeepers bench at MLG when I was a kid - so - even to the OLD MLG setup. But I had never seen them put down the lines! Very impressive. Doesn't anyone use lasers now? I get the strings are easy and reusable but thought overall it would save time? Nice work!

[@YourLocalIceMan]

Lazees! Probably. Sounds like a great idea.

[@mocookiezplz]

Another good video!! We are starting lines tomorrow, fingers crossed it all goes well. Are you dropping in logo's next?

[@YourLocalIceMan]

Thank you. No logos right now. The Junior team kind of folded. They will most likely be back next year.

[@TyTyson98]

Ice Rink Diaries as in whatever the 2020-2021 season will be or the 21-22 season?

[@kolbybyers3959]

How come you don’t use paint? Saves a lot of time and looks more vibrant.

[@YourLocalIceMan]

The rink has a huge stack of paper lines. As soon as we run out I would like to make the switch. But we only take our ice once like every 4 years. Unless you have the right equipment paper is much faster than paint. By far. Our rink is underfunded and mismanaged. They will never be able to afford the proper equipment for paint.

[@briandanning]

Maybe it's just because I dont have experience myself but I'm curious how you do the circles with paper. It's just 2" straight paper but it needs to form a circle so does it kink the paper or what? How do you get it to turn nicely? I hope I get that question out right without sounding like an idiot lol

[@YourLocalIceMan]

Great question. I should have shown that step. I will add it somehow in a next video. Yes the paper does kink but after the ice is built up and skated its almost impossible to tell.

[@porthos892]

Great video! Can i ask a question?? Do you know how much its the cost to run and maintan a rink like this? An estimation would do too! Thanx in advance! 😁😁

[@pallemichelsen1401]

Hard to say, the power prices went up and down. What you should ask is how many kw/h it takes. It's a lot. Imagine a high number, then triple it. Ps, I work rinks.

[@burnuts007]

Hockey Canada still has hash marks at 3 feet not 4 apart .

[@scottetter3761]

Any chance you can do a video or show how to properly fix a spot then when the ice gets built up gets a hole in it and goes to concrete. If had a few spots go to concrete due to zamboni failure and when I tried to fix the paint it shows as like a vanilla creme look

[@burnuts007]

Use a chopper blade (sharp) and hit the top of the bump to break it down. If your going to cheat with the Zamboni just make sure to turn off the horizontal augers off when driving over it slow

[@scottboese6892]

I’m in Tofield Alberta Canada

[@scottboese6892]

Very informative we cheat we bought a stencil kit to mark in our lines

[@YourLocalIceMan]

Nice, I used the stencil once during the STAR class. We used them to paint though. Very handy.

[@blackhawks1870]

Website to buy the stencil kit please

[@YourLocalIceMan]

@@blackhawks1870 I don't use stencils but try Becker Arena. beckerarena.com/

[@johnriley2061]

Jet Ice Sells Them

[@geraci89]

How long did this take?

[@YourLocalIceMan]

To just do the lines took us about 7 hours. I think if we did it more often and with more help I think it could be done in under 4 hours.

[@geraci89]

@@YourLocalIceMan I was gonna say I saw a lot of technique I certainly would have changed. We do ours in 4 hours and that includes pouncing 6-7 logos around centre ice too . That’s 4 people. You lost the most time in 2 spots. Rolling out the main red and blue lines little by little. We stick a long screwdriver in the roll and have someone else pull the other end to the width of the rink. Lay it down all in one shot, shimmy into place, freeze, done. But the biggest cost of time was running all the extra string for the hash marks. I would just keep the 22’ and 20’ strings in, measure off of that to get your 9”, 24” etc. we used markers for years but I’m sure you know markers are unreliable. So we made templates instead that line up with the 20’ and 22’ strings and it’s fool proof. Takes 5 minutes to do all the faceoff hashes per circle.

[@YourLocalIceMan]

@@geraci89 for sure thank you for the information. There a lot of things I wish we could do better.

[@rodneylynn1977]

Tell Andy hi for me, he may not remember me

[@YourLocalIceMan]

What's your name. I will see him Friday and ask. He is still a goon.

[@rodneylynn1977]

@Your Local Ice Man Rodney Miller I was a rink rat at the old arena

[@cloak53k9]

Why didn't you finish the video.

[@YourLocalIceMan]

Not sure what you mean. What did I leave out?