25 Pool Noodle Hacks That Will Improve Your Life

By Qunki Team | lifehacks

Are the colorful foam pool noodles just a treat for the eyes? With just a few twist and tug, they could become your favorite life hack companion too. Yes, play with the pool noodles around your home to divulge its best useful hack in your daily routine. Not just one or two, there are some series of tweaks in which you may make use of it. Come on, let’s check it out!

1. Wrist Rest

Here comes the top hack of using your pool noodle in saving your wrists from a long day fatigue of using your PC. To get rid of the exhaustion that you pull-off by using your keyboard all day long, you need to first get ready to cut the noodle. Mark the measure where you feel is perfect and take off the length required. Here, the total height is slightly less than the half of the diameter of the full noodle. Or you may try cutting them into half of their diameter, and make a set of wrist rests.

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2. Door Bumper

Check out this utilitarian trick that keeps your doors away from banging into a wall or the trim every time you run in and out of it. Take a short section of a pool, cut out a thin slit lengthwise and just thrust it into the door edges. That is it, you are done. You can also make use of these on your gates or cupboards to safe guard the same and also from defacing the walls.

3. Stay-Put Drawer Organizer

People always try to live with those hiccups that never ever have any easy solution. One among such hiccups is the dashing movement of the organizers in your drawers that make your mind jam with no further clarifications.

Here comes the unique remedy to keep your organizers fixed in their place. Just place a pool noodle in the empty area in order to fill the gap and here you go. Make sure you measure the distance perfectly that is to be filled and cut the pool noodle accordingly. The organizers have no way to go but only to listen to you. You may also cut the noodle into halves or as required to make less use of the space by it.

4. Floating Beverage Pool Barge

Need cool drinks on the go during swimming? You can make use of the pool noodles to make a cheap floating beverage container even in the swimming pool. Try cutting the noodles in short lengths and make it fit on a plastic bin, covering all its four sides. The bin with a lid will be helpful enough to keep the noodles in place. It is also advisable to thread a bungee cord from the center section of the noodles. This will ensure the cord to snug against the edges. Finally, to make it accessible with a handle, tie a section of cord or rope with the bungee. Also make a circle of pool noodle around the handle to make it float that eases its usage too.

5. Vehicle Luggage Rack Protector

To keep your luggage rack of your new SUV safe and scratch-free, you can make use of these pool noodles. If you are in an idea of using your SUV’s luggage rack for transporting any heavy luggage like metallic ladders, then it would be the better choice to utilize these noodles to safeguard your SUV. Just slit the pool noodles along its bottom side and secure them on the rails of the rack. Secure them on all the rails. Now your vehicle is ready to transport heavy packages as much as you require, without any kind of impairments. The cushion inside the pool also ensures the heavy luggage from jangling throughout.

6. Solution for all Door Dings!

Coming across several door dings of your car from opening and slamming on the walls of your garage, this unique hack using the pool noodle will ensure that it never happens again. Yes, use your outgrown pool noodles for this purpose in order to save your car doors from heavy scratches and damages.

Cut the pool noodle into half, as long as it is, and just fit it onto the studs around your garage. This set-up will provide extreme safety for your car doors from banging against the studs of your car garage. You have either option to just fit onto it or you may adhere them using wet cement or a couple of nails. In fact, this would be the permanent solution for the same.

7. DIY Fishing Rod Organizer

This is a DIY kind organizer that you can very well make use for keeping your fishing rods in order. Many people still wonder to find any suitable organizers for keeping their fishing rods sorted with no tangles as well as to access them in ease. But they fail to get the best one out. Here comes an idiosyncratic organizer that keeps your job of organizing fishing rods easy.

You will need a foam swimming pool noodle and a PVC pipe of three inch diameter. Try making holes of diameter 1 inch on the pipe, each spacing a distance of about 4 inches apart. Now using a utility knife, you will have to cut slits on the noodle that are 4 inches apart from each other. Fix the pool noodle on the wall making sure at least two of the slits land over the studs. Now pulling those slits apart, try to slide a fender washer into it and put screws plunging through the noodle with 2 inch screws. Take the PVC pipe and screw it to the wall beneath the noodle at your preferable height. Finally, insert all your fishing rods collection into these slits and you are done. Here you get your fantabulous organizer that is extremely useful and cheap as well.

8. Safest Trampoline Springs

With these pool noodles, you will also get a simple way to cover the trampoline springs. It will be the safest method to safe guard the springs against pinched fingers. For this hack, you will have to cut the pool noodles into sections matching the length of the springs. Now, try slicing the noodle lengthwise and slither them onto the trampoline springs.

9. Simplest method to cut Pool Noodles

Are you wondering to discover a simplest yet effective method to cut these pool noodles into multiple sections? Here is a way by which you can cut lots of pool sections in a simpler method.

All you have to start with is to make three-sided jig out of the respective lumber. By using a hand saw, cut a slot in the noodle after measuring the length required. Cuts should be lengthwise along either sides of the jig. Now place the noodle into the trench formed by both sides and start pushing the blade into the slot to cut. Make sure you do the sawing back and forth to cut these sections of noodles uniformly.

10. Lift Gate Protection

Many people would have come across the scenario of hitting their lift gates of vans or SUVs, to the cross braces of their garage door. Sad, you know what? You can very well manage things not to happen as such at all. Yes, make use of these pool noodles and get rid of the ditches and scratches on both your vehicle and gates.

Try protecting them by making use of a swim noodle as safety foam. Cut slits along the length of the noodle, and just slip it over the braces of the gate. You also have the option of using a pre-slit foam with a piped insulation. When you find the noodle slipping off the braces, you may try using a double-face tape to make it sit in place.

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