Raised wooden fish / koi pond in Newcastle by Pondguru

Hello there, thanks for tuning in. This is a raised pond which is very close to the house. It's approximately 10 foot by 6 foot by 4 foot deep and in metric that's 3 meters, 1.8 meters, 1.2 meters deep. And in this one again we've got the decking on the outside, we've got the frame in the middle, we've got exterior hardwood ply on the inside. Going right down to the ground to give extra strength and here there's two holes and when the inside of the pond gets lined out with underlay and liner I'm going to use these fittings to bring the pipe out of the pond to the filter which is going to sit in the shed here and the other fitting is going to bring the water back from the filter into the pond so these will be well below water level. We've got the structure built pretty much apart from the capping which Which is going to go over the top of the liner. So now all I need to do is put the underlay in and then the liner. This gives you some idea of the scale of the pond. I'm roughly five foot nine or something, thereabouts, not too tall, but it's roughly four foot deep and because the base that we built this on wasn't level we've had to cut this bottom board to marry in with what was happening on the ground but it's it's pretty tight it's a good fit. This is unbelievably strong. The 18 mil board here goes all the way down to the ground and that's locked in by the base board. So you just can't press them all out. It just doesn't budge at all. And you've got a piece of decking to go on the top as well, which will also prevent any flex. Now the frame that this thing is made of is bolted down to the ground with these screws. These go right into the paving. The paving's approximately two inches thick. So they go right in there and keep it really tight. You could put them in a vice and bray them with a hammer and they would just bend. They wouldn't shear off like normal screws. This is the underlay that I'm using. It's a thick polyester underlay. It doesn't rot, it doesn't stretch, and it provides a really good cushion for the liner. I'm going to drape this all the way around the inside of the pond, across the bottom, basically cover every surface that's going to be touched by the liner. And I'm going to seal it together with a heat gun. It's going to run up the sides, it creates molten balls of plastic on here. And when two bits of underlay are pushed together, they just stick, so you can't get them apart. That's one sheet rolled in. I'm going to put other sheets in from the side and then melt them together. That's the whole pond lined out in underlay. Now I'm going to roll the liner in, fold it out, roughly put it into place and start filling it with water. So the underlay went in, followed by the liner. I draped it in loosely, put the folds I think where they were meant to go. Started filling up. You can see all this process in the how-to videos. Dave probably has got a hell of a lot more detail than this. I'm literally just skipping through here. But I put the underlay in, put the liner in, started it filling up. As it was filling up, I was going round, adjusting the fold, seeing where they wanted it to go. And as the water's come, maybe it's halfway up, it's pulled the liner in pretty much as far as it's going to go. So I've put the folds in their final position. And just screwed them down, making sure to keep the screws quite well back off the edge in case I need to do minor adjustments because you don't want any holes in the liner. So I'm going to fill this up now, just below the level where the pipes enter and leave the pond. Then I'm going to put those fittings on and then connect the filter up. When those fittings are on, hopefully if they're on properly there won't be any leaks and the water will be able to come all the way to the top. This is where the pipes are going through the side wall. I've already cut one hole out there. This is the fitting that's going in, it's called Tradux by Oase, and I've stripped that down, stuck that on there, give it a bit of a twist so it marks the liner, and then I'm cutting it out just smaller than the diameter of this, so when I push it through it's very tight. Even if you make it slightly bigger it's not a problem because you've got all that to go at, you've got a big margin of error. Now all I do is take that apart to that point, I've got a big rubber seal here that goes on the inside of the liner. The screw thread attachment goes through from the back. When these two meet, tighten them up and that will create a seal. And the hose tail goes on each end, pipe connects and that's your junction through the liner. A quick tip for you, the fitting that's been cut off here is to accept the inch and a half pipe for the Tradux wall fitting. It's the same thread as the filter so if you attach it to the filter, you've got something solid to cut off against. Saves you holding it in your hand, just repeat that for all the fittings and you're ready to go. That's the fittings on there, the one on the right hand side is the outlet that comes back from the filter, the elbow can be adjusted so it can fire off into that corner or it can fire off down the bottom here, and the other one is where the pump feeds into, so the pipe is going to run along this near edge, the pump's going to sit in this bottom corner in the deepest bit. This is the fitting that's going to go on the other side of this wall, so we've already done the Here on the internals, here's the one that goes on the external. This is the one that's going to feed to the filter, so it needs a clip, needs the fitting pushing on, and then I'm going to tape this up really tight with black electrician's tape before tightening the clip, putting the seal in, and then screwing that onto the backside of the tradux fitting to create the watertight seal. There you can see the importance of making these holes a little bit bigger than the actual fitting so you can get your hands in and get the fittings nice and tight. Obviously if you've got hands like some mongoloid, you'll want an even bigger hole. That's the innie and the outie in there. They come through the shed wall and they come into the filter and out of the filter. And that one on the back of the filter leads to a drain. We've just got that one coiled up at the back of the filter here for the time being. And there's loads of wires lying around here off the pump. There's a feed in from the house and wires from the filter. I need to wire up a few sockets here. That's the pump connected to the pipe there. It's an Oase AquaMax Eco Premium 8000. And the filter's connected up there as well. Water's running through it, no leaks. And the filter is an Oase FiltoClear 20000, which has got a 36 watt UV light running down the middle of it. This filter is really, really easy to clean. There's a dial on the back of here. All you do is turn that to the drain, leave this pipe out to the drain, pump the handle, which squeezes out the foams, washes out all the muck, bring the pipe back in, Turn the dial back. And it's sweet. Really easy to clean out. Takes probably two or three minutes, once every two to three months. So now in order to get the capping on, we're just cutting off the underlay along here, putting the capping on, screwing it down, and then we're going to run a Stanley knife underneath the capping to take off this excess liner. That's the pond finished. We've screwed the top down. It's filled up more or less to capacity, and it's looking pretty good. Certainly level as well, which is always a bonus. That's the end of another job. Thanks for watching, hope you've enjoyed this video, and if you've liked what you've seen, please subscribe. There's dozens more pond videos on my channel. Meg! Meg! Meg! Hello. Come here. Come on, Meg. Look at this, it's too hot. It's got a tank there. Can you go and grab it? It should be weak once it sinks, look. Come on, no, you have to see it, oh ----.