HI-FLOATHi-Float Company Ultra Hi-Float with Pump Balloon Treatment, 16 oz, Multicolor …

In preparation for my daughter's upcoming 5th birthday, I decided that I would test out this Ultra-Hifloat at our Super Bowl party. I followed the directions as included in the box, with two minor exceptions. First, the amount I put into the latex balloon was a little less than the guide recommends. In this case I uses 3/4 depression to fill an 11" balloon versus the recommended 1 full depression. And two, I did make sure to get a little into the neck of the balloon too (the instructions advise you not too). This last point did make it a little difficult to tie the balloon (slippery), but we managed just fine. You do have to inflate the balloons quite well to ensure adequate rise. I did have 1 that I under filled and the kids played with it all day, batting it around the house. That was until the Hifloat dried on the inside and the balloon started to rise! Now I would normally awake to a balloon graveyard the following morning (maybe even that night). The site of shriveled, pathetic balloons and wasted helium used to irritate me. Today I come down, and they are all still flying high, taught with helium, and show zero signs of weakening yet. This Ultra-Hifloat states it will make helium filled balloons float up to 25 times longer...I don't know if I will get 25 times longer, but so far we are on the right track. Amazing product. Will definitely use for my daughter's birthday coming up in a few months.EDIT: 2/12/12 Update - Simply Amazing. Exactly 1 week later, of 11 standard latex balloons inflated, 10 of them are still flying like the day were inflated. Midweek, the one that isn't, literally deflated before my eyes. I can't figure that one out. But the rest are still up and the kids are enjoying dragging them around the house. I will continue to update this review to give others an idea on how well this product continues to work.EDIT: 2/19/12 Update - Seriously! This stuff is now outlasting the Mylar balloons. 10 latex balloons still full and show no signs of losing helium. The 2 Mylars on the other hand are now about 1/2 full. Ultra Hi-Float is crazy good stuff!EDIT: 2/26/12 Update - OK. Whomever said this stuff doesn't work, doesn't know how to properly use it. While the 2 Mylar balloons dropped into the trash this week, I am staring at 10 full-filled latex helium balloons that are now starting to get on our nerves. They simply refuse to die. They've been up so long even the kids are bored with them. My wife asked if she could pop them so we could get rid of them. When has that ever happened with your latex balloons? I said no. I'll keep you posted. 3 weeks in and going strong.EDIT: 3/4/12 Update - Week 4 complete. The Hi-Float has started to crack and break off in some of the balloons leading to some rattling in them. As a result of the cracking, you can see that the lift to the balloons is starting to weaken and in fact 2 of the latex balloons are only flying at half height right now. I assume more will follow quickly this week. Still 8 balloons out of 11 flying at full height 4 weeks is pretty darn amazing.A little math - I've never had a untreated 9-11" latex balloon stay afloat for more than 12 hours at any one time, but it is of the general consensus that a traditional 11" latex balloon is estimated to remain afloat with helium for 18 to 24 hours. Ultra Hi-Float's guarantee of 25 times that time would equate to a staggering 18.75 - 24 days of rise. And here we are at 28 days, with roughly three quarters of my balloons still floating high! All I can say is it does work, and it does work well.EDIT: 3/11/12 Update - I can't believe I am still updating this review. I counted the balloons today that are still at full height and there are 7. We lost the 2 that were not quite as full last week plus 1 more. The balloons have been up so long at this point, I barely notice them anymore. Week five complete with an amazing 35 days of rise.EDIT: 3/18/12 Update - Well we are officially down to 3 balloons. But hey that's 3 latex balloons still floating 6 weeks after first inflation! I will say that the quality of the latex balloon must play a large part too, because we did our daughter's birthday this weekend and within the week we've already had 3 to 4 fall and I did the exact same protocol as I did in the original post. At this point though I'm so sick of balloons. I'm ready to pop them all just so I can stop editing this post.EDIT: 3/25/12 Update - Down to 2 balloons at 7 weeks. We've actually removed the remaining to to the basement since they seem so out of place. I mean they are from a Super Bowl Party. I think one of them is starting to falter so hopefully in one to 2 weeks, this review will be over. I never expected it to go this long.Late Additional Updates:EDIT: 4/1/12 Update - Down to 1 at 8 weeks.EDIT: Between 4/8 (9 weeks) and 4/15 (10 weeks) it seems the the last holdout fell. Today is 4/21 and I don't recall seeing floating earlier this week. I found it 3/4 to full will helium, resting on the basement floor. It was banished to the basement because we just couldn't stand to look at them anymore. Too funny. Who would have ever thought?So in closing 75% of the balloon made it 28 days. And a few held on for 8-10 weeks. Overall a truly remarkable product. But buyers beware. The effect generated by the Hi-Float is STRONGLY correlated to the quality of the balloons that you use. It can only help poorly made balloons so much. But it can drive you batty with good balloons as they never seem to want to die!

This worked so well! We tried a balloon without it and it had fallen down within 12 hours. The balloons with it lasted almost a week. Here is Day 4 and Day 6. Only 1 down by Day 6. We had some balloons that stayed up for 10 days. This was a great product for party prep. We could prepare for the party the day before and still have high floating balloons the day of the event.

My son's birthday was Sunday and every year around 6am. my husband and I blow up a ton of balloons to fill the living room. My son is always thrilled when he wakes up and sees the party in the living room. Sadly, later that day, just around dinner time, we also have the pleasure of picking up the latex balloon graveyard.I had been hearing about the hi-float liquid and decided to try it out this year, even though when I searched on Amazon I saw some negative reviews. I figured, if it would just help the latex balloons last until the next day, it would be worth it.This year, like every year, we woke up early, put up all the decorations and set out the presents and began inflating the balloons at 6:30am (Sunday). I forgot to add the hi-float to the first balloon, but I figured it would serve as a great test. All other latex balloons receive one full pump of hi-float and a good squish around :) for about 5 seconds. By 9pm the first balloon (without hi-float) was rolling around on the floor, but all others were standing straight up in all their glory. I was thrilled !! We went to bed later and figured that we'd wake up to the graveyard in the morning.It is now Thursday 10:34pm and I am completely and totally in SHOCK that every balloon with hi-float is still up and looks absolutely perfect. Almost 5 days later !!! AMAZING!!!I have no idea why this didn't work for the people that left bad reviews. I used ordinary 12" latex balloons and didn't do anything different or additional than what it said to do on the instructions.Even though by now it's probably driving my husband crazy :) I'm going to try and leave them up to see how long they last. If I succeed in convincing my husband, I'll update the review when they finally fall.

Weighs helium balloons down so they won’t float at all. Waste of money.