- Hey guys, my name is Jeremy
welcome to the Hockey Movement.
In this video we're showing you
how you can build a backyard hockey rink.
Now before you start
buying all the material
you gotta make sure you can actually
put a rink in your backyard.
It's really important
cause I don't wanna get you
having all the material and then
you can't actually put one down.
So, before you watch this video
make sure you check out our last video.
We talk about the
materials that you can use,
your options, and what you need to check
before you can put a backyard rink in.
So check out that video first
we'll put a link right here
and once you know that you can
put a rink in your backyard
well, we'll show you how to build it.
Let's do that right now.
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Step one for building your rink
is to figure out where
you wanna put the thing.
- Right there.
- [Jeremy] Alright.
Step two is to make sure
the spot you picked is level and flat.
Now, that's pretty boring
topic, so I won't go into it
in detail here but I will
put a link right here
if you want to figure out how to do that.
Step three is to decide
the size of your rink.
Now this is probably
something you should do
before you order your rink
if you're getting it online.
We're going with a rink size of 25 by 50
and we're gonna put it right there.
So step four is to stake it out.
We're staking out the rink, so
we have another stake 50 feet
that way and we're doing
one 25 feet that way.
Your rink has to be square, as well.
We're using this little
square in the corners
just to try to stay as true as we can
and we'll double check the
squareness of it once we're done.
Eric is just hammering
in another stake here.
I've got 160 feet of string which
should be enough to run right around this.
Just running a string line
from this bag to the next one
all the way around and that
will just help this stay true
and when you're putting up the boards
it's gonna help us keep
a nice straight line.
Once you have your stakes
and your string line up
you should make sure
that the rink is square.
If the rink isn't square the
liner won't fit properly.
So, an easy method if you have
a really long tape measure
is just to measure the diagonals.
So this is just about 56
inches from corner to corner.
Now we gotta measure the
other corner to corner.
And if they're pretty much
the same distance apart
that means the rink is square.
So let's check this one out.
And looking good there, nice and taught.
And we're right about 56 inches.
That's almost perfectly square.
If you don't have a
really long tape measure
you can just use Pythagorean Theorem,
so you measure six feet
here, eight feet there,
and then the distance from there to there
should be 10 feet, and if you've got that
then your rink is square.
Now comes the fun part which
is setting up the rink.
So what we're doing
first is just laying out
all the brackets along the
outside so they're all in place.
Makes it really really easy to set up
so we're gonna put the bracket out
then we're gonna put the boards out
and Eric is hard at
work getting this done.
We just made a quick
readjustment to the rink size,
so we were gonna do 25 by 50,
we're changing it to be 20
feet wide and 44 feet long.
The reason is we had enough boards
to do three sides of the
rink and then we were gonna
finish the last one with some plywood.
However, we wanted to steer
clear of the weeping bed
because this property
is on a septic system,
so it's important not to
have too much weight on that
weeping bed which is right about there
so we just wanted to stay
off of it if we could
so we took a little bit
off and then we'll have
the whiteboards going all the way around.
Bracks are laid out, boards are laid out,
the final size has been determined,
so we're ready to start putting
brackets into the ground.
The boards are going up so we're kind of
figuring out the system as we go.
Basically with any system though
all you have to do is put the brackets up
follow the string line all the way down
so you get a nice straight board
and that's what we're doing
so we're putting the
brackets up every four feet
and with this system from NiceRink
these boards, they fit
right into the grooves.
I'll show you on this side.
So you can see the groove of the bracket
there's the board and then
it has this little metal lip
that catches right there
and makes it pretty simple.
It also has these little pegs
so the boards all fit together.
So this system works fairly well
and we're just fidgeting with
it a bit but it's going up.
So once we've figured out the board system
it's pretty easy to put them up.
We found that having a
spray paint line right there
is really helpful, so we do recommend
after you put the string line up
grab a can of spray paint
and paint your line down
so you can follow that,
it makes it a lot easier.
Where's this go?
- Oh!
- [Jeremy] Whoops.
We're gotta put it right here.
This is the final rink here.
So it's 20 feet wide, 44 feet long
and it turns out that the
board system that we got
from NiceRink actually has rounded corners
so we built that in
there, looking pretty good
and now all that's left is the liner.
So we got the boards set
up, we got the brackets in.
Basically that's all
you have to do for now.
You wanna do that October, November
before your fingers freeze
off trying to set it up
and before the ground is frozen.
It makes it a lot easier.
So, we still do have to put the liner in
and if you want some extra accessories
these little bumpers are pretty
cool, it protects the liner.
The reason we're waiting
until about December
or late December to put the liner in
is cause if we put it in now
it's gonna fill up with leaves
it's gonna fill up with sticks
animals can run across it
and that's gonna cause some problems.
If there's leaves and
sticks it attracts warmth
and that'll melt your ice,
and if animals are walking
across it it could put rips in your liner
and you definitely don't want that.
So this video should get
you about 3/4 of the way
to having a full backyard rink.
If you need help with the liner
don't worry, we've got you covered.
We're gonna put the
liner in around December
so make sure you subscribe to this channel
and that video will be up
around the end of December.
If you guys are making a backyard rink
I'd love to hear from you.
Send me an email, take
a picture, take a video
and post it on Facebook,
Instagram, or Twitter.
Look us up: How To Hockey
and the Hockey Movement.
Thanks a lot for watching the videos, guys
and I hope that this video has helped you
make that perfect backyard rink.
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