What are the Glide Capabilities With Ice Magic®?
With proper maintenance and care, Ice Magic maintains a consistent glide factor of 90% for the life of the product. By comparison and dependant on resurfacing capabilities, wet ice starts with a glide capability of 100%, reducing to 80% after a few hours. Under normal circumstances, a wet ice rink then has to close for re-surfacing. However a synthetic rink can remain open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What are the operational/maintenance running costs? Apart from ensuring that the rink surface is kept clean, the only other task is to spray the surface with a fine coating of glycol (diluted 1:3 with water) at irregular intervals. This can be achieved by rink staff on skates or in their normal footwear using back pack spray applicators, therefore there is no requirement to clear the rink of skaters during the task. The glycol is non toxic, environmentally friendly, safe and very inexpensive. Is Ice Magic® suitable for figure skating and ice hockey? Most certainly. We supply our ice pan
