Ice Rink & Arena Water Treatment Chemicals
Effective chemical solutions for arena building maintenance
Caring for Arenas is Hard Work
Whether you’re managing an arena that hosts professional sports teams and sold-out concerts or tryouts for the bantam hockey team, your management is important. The cooling and heating systems must stay running at all times, and do so using as little water and energy as possible. As an added challenge, the age of some systems requires special care and consideration to run efficiently for as long as possible.
It's More Than Just Chemistry
You need a chemical partner who can find the right solution
Maintaining heating and cooling systems in arenas and ice rinks is a full-time job. It takes careful calculation to ensure that these systems perform, despite their age or history, and with efficient use of water and power. We’re here to help. At Guardian, we understand the need for specialized chemistry, the pressures you face for reducing budget, and that systems old and new have different requirements.
Programs for your systems: boiler water treatment, cooling tower treatment, closed loop and chiller treatment and DataGuard monitoring. Local service: Edmonton and Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Florida.
Solutions
Water Treatment
Water systems are critical to maintaining arenas and ice rinks. They need to perform in all conditions while minimizing utility costs. Guardian delivers the three pillars required for successful water treatment: industry-leading chemistry, responsive and knowledgeable service, and the holistic processes to ensure your systems perform at the lowest possible operating cost. This approach is grounded in decades of experience and supported by a data-driven process, giving operations and leadership the peace of mind they deserve. And we do this with health and safety as our top priority—that means everything from providing the proper training to handle the products to water management plans ensuring legionella does not cause an issue for your institution. We can help by providing chemistry that is designed to get the most out of your systems, and the service support needed to keep them working as long as possible.
While the best water systems will be perfectly balanced, we understand that sometimes not everything goes as planned. That is why we also have a suite of solutions such as defoamers, descalers and odour controllers to help get your system back on track and operating at peak performance.
Sanitizing & Disinfecting
Protect the health of everyone in and around your facilities from the visible and invisible bacteria, fungi, and other contaminants that can linger for days in the right environment. Guardian’s wide variety of solutions include several registered with Health Canada. All our hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectants are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces.
Descaling
The best water systems will be perfectly balanced to minimize scale issues. However, once scale develops, it can impact the efficacy of your boilers, chillers, cooling towers, and heat exchangers. By treating this issue as soon as it’s noticed, you can prevent further negative impacts on your systems and equipment. We have the systems and people to properly treat the issue and optimize your system’s performance, no matter what condition it’s in
We Understand What It Takes
Managing any community building can be difficult, but ice rinks and arenas have unique challenges.
At Guardian Chemicals, we know that no system is the same, and each solution needs to be carefully considered. What works for someone else may not make sense for your facility. Our team of experts not only works within these unique challenges but also stay on call for support any time you need.
We don’t believe in ‘deliver-and-done’. True benefits revolve around the consistency of program execution, which is why we’re there when you need us both for regular servicing and emergency support for life.
Our experts know your industry and will seek to understand the unique challenges of your business. Let’s talk.
Your systems and processes are interconnected. We’ll arrange a site visit to understand the bigger picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Arenas
The refrigeration plant. Arenas run a glycol or brine loop for the ice slab and a condenser water system rejecting that heat, often alongside conventional building heating. The condenser side fouls quickly because it runs continuously through the season, and fouling there shows up directly as higher compressor energy.
Continuous run time, high heat rejection, and make-up water that concentrates in the tower. Scale and biofilm on the condenser both insulate the surface, so head pressure climbs and the compressor works harder for the same ice. A controlled treatment programme with monitored cycles of concentration is what holds it.
Test the glycol, not just the level. Inhibitor packages deplete over time and glycol degrades to glycolic acid, which drops pH and turns a protective fluid into a corrosive one. A brown or acidic sample means the loop needs treating or replacing, and topping up with water only dilutes what protection is left.
Yes, wherever there is a cooling tower or evaporative condenser and wherever domestic hot water serves showers in dressing rooms. Towers aerosolise, and dressing room showers see intermittent use with long stagnant periods between. Both belong in the risk assessment.
Intermittent heavy use, shared surfaces, wet floors and skin contact. The practical controls are a cleanable floor and bench surface, a disinfectant with a realistic contact time for the turnaround between bookings, and dilution control so staff are not guessing. Odour complaints are usually a cleaning frequency problem rather than a product problem.
Indirectly, yes. Scale on the condenser raises head pressure and reduces the plant’s capacity, so the slab is harder to hold at temperature during a busy schedule or a warm spell. The ice-making problem people report in shoulder season is often a heat rejection problem.
Lay the systems up deliberately. Condenser water and towers need draining and cleaning, the ice plant loops need testing before restart, and heating boilers need a wet or dry layup. Idle systems full of untreated oxygenated water corrode faster than running ones.
Our representative does the routine testing and adjustment on a service schedule and leaves the results with your operator. Arena crews are usually small and stretched across ice, building and events, so the water treatment programme has to run without needing a dedicated person.
Yes. Condenser tubes, plate exchangers, domestic hot water equipment and kitchen gear all scale at different rates, and each needs a chemistry matched to the deposit and the metallurgy. We identify the deposit before recommending an acid.
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