drying out old sand inside or out?

[corpusse]

I've reluctantly decided to bring it back inside. Going to put as much as I can in a rubbermaid tub. Hopefully it will dry out in a week or so I will use some fans to help speed it up. Once its dry I will transfer it back to 5g buckets so it will be manageable to transport.

[hillegom]

If you stir the sand in the rubbermaid, as many times in a day as you feel up to, the sand will dry faster.,
I have dried half a pail of sand a couple of times, and I found if you stir once a day, it took about a month to dry. The other time I have done it, when the sand was about 1" dry on top, I would transfer the dry to another pail. This increased production of dry.
Mind you, mine was coarser than sugar

[darkreef]

I'd by a sand box , the more surface area for it to dry the faster it will be . Sun beating on it will help

[Cujo#31]

Better yet, get a tarp, stretch it out and pin it down so it doesnt billow with any breeze and spread er out. On good early summer day of sunshine will dry it out well

[darkreef]

Originally Posted by Cujo#31

Better yet, get a tarp, stretch it out and pin it down so it doesnt billow with any breeze and spread er out. On good early summer day of sunshine will dry it out well

+1

[corpusse]

The big reason I don't want to do this outside is the creepy crawlies, also the wind.

I managed to bone dry a small amount maybe 10lbs in a 5 gallon bucket I put a fan over it and stirred it up a few times. Of course doing it like this would take 30 days but today I am trying to increase the amount. Eventually I hope to get it into 3-5 five gallon buckets so its easily stored and easy to transport. The one thing I did not like about 30 gallon rubbermaid I have is once I put it down I'll never be able to lift it again. Keeping it to 50-100lbs buckets makes it at least moveable.

[daplatapus]

If you have the room in a basement, I've seen a guy do something similar with one of those cheap Canadian tire hard plastic kiddy pools.