Apologies for missing out the days 4 and 5. I forgot the video camera.... This pond was constructed using rubber liner and polyester underlay. All stone used is sandstone - mostly new from quarry, some old from existing pond. For all North East pond construction and aquatic maintenance enquiries please call 07772848730.
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Hello, this is Richard from Pond Guru Landscaping,
this is our latest job, we're just busy emptying the pond, we've got
a container over there for all the wildlife, we're going to bottom
the pond, lift the liner out and then prepare it for the new liner.
End of day one, these are the stones we took up from the side,
very big stones, monster one there, this is all the underlaying
carpet and crap that we lifted up from underneath the two liners
that we're in, all breaking up, it's awful to get out.
We've dug the shape of the pond.
We've put the shelves in.
It's looking pretty good.
We've built a breeze block wall up here
because there's a huge root
that goes along just under the surface here
and we want to prevent that from coming into the pond.
So that's really a barrier against the root.
So we've increased the size of the pond.
It used to just come around here.
We've dug our way into here
because there's a summer house going over here
and a bit of decking.
We're not doing that, but somebody else is doing it.
So when they're sitting on the decking,
they can look at a bit more of the pond.
It used to just go around there.
So we've added a bit more. The muck that we've dug out
when we've been building these extra shelves
and so on digging it a bit deeper has all gone up here
and we're going to kind of flatten that out,
grade it out so that it looks like a sweeping rise
and build our cascade on top of here.
So it'll kind of come out from the back of here out of a tunnel,
cascade down over a few falls into this area here.
Hopefully the water will
kind of travel in that direction before getting picked up
in the pump at the deep end.
In order to retain that soil we used some of the stones
that were dug up from the side of the pond
and extended the dry stone wall up a little bit.
So that's it, end of day one, ready for day two.
This is the end of day two,
it was pretty windy this morning so I didn't bother doing any filming
but basically we put the underlay in first,
which is this white stuff, polyester underlay,
sealed the bits together with a blow torch,
if you want to see how to do that search out some
Check out some of my other videos.
Put the underlay in, put the liner in.
We've draped the liner loosely in,
and then we've created folds where the folds want to be.
Secured them with stones just lying on top, filled it with water.
Everything's now secured in place by the water,
and we've started building the dry stone wall.
So the idea is, there'll be a dry stone wall on the inside.
Then what we'll do, we'll secure it
with a little bit of cement around the back.
Put a thin strip of underlay in along here.
Chuck the liner forward, and the underlay.
Build the outer part of the wall here, so that the liner's sandwiched
between the inside and the outside of the wall, so the liner's up here.
And then we're going to put a big cap and stone on the top.
So the water will come up to the, more or less, the top of this wall.
You won't see any of the liner,
and the sides will be secure enough to walk on.
This is the end of day three.
We've pretty much got the internal wall built up.
And what we've done here, we've sandwiched the liner.
So we've put an extra bit of underlaying between the wall
and the liner.
Chucked the liner back, built the outer wall,
and then we're gonna put a bit of capping stone on top
to cap all that lot off.
The water's still gotta come up quite a long way.
The very least it wants to be
to the bottom of those stones there.
So today we're gonna carry on with the outer wall
and possibly start on the cascade.
So this is day six.
We were practically finished on day five,
but unfortunately I forgot the video camera
on day four and five, so hence the bit of a gap.
This is
This is the finished pond,
so I'm gonna talk you through it now.
The last day that I videoed we were just building up
the walls with the liner between them and then
we put the capping on secured it with cement.
The walls are actually raised up a little bit
from the existing ground level that's so leaves
and other debris doesn't blow in quite as much
so it should cut down on the amount
of rubbish that ends up in the pond.
See looking around the edges that you can't see any liner
at all it's all been covered
up by the wall. The water can go up by about another two
or three inches or so but
We're just leaving it where it is now,
so it's well above the cement, till the cement totally goes off.
This is the cascade.
Unfortunately, I didn't video any of this being built,
but have a look at my other videos
if you want to see how to build a cascade.
It's basically just lined and the stone and cement built on top of it.
A little bit of a stone tunnel here,
and there's actually a frog trying to get into there,
trying
to get out
of the sun.
The pump we've used, which sits just down in that deep corner there,
is an Oase Aquamax Eco 6000 Premium.
Um, brand new out this year, very low wattage,
high output pump, and the filter we've used
is again an Oase filter, and it's
a filter clear 15,000, so water comes up out of the
pond, goes into the filter, filter cleans the water,
UV light here, helps keep the algae
at bay, and then it comes out,
and here I've used an Oase splitter, so if they don't want
I want the Cascade on, all I gotta do,
Turn the cascade off.
Turn that one on, and that one just goes straight back to the pond.
It actually comes in behind the dry stone wall,
so it just cuts out all the noise.
Slowing down there, you can see.
So if they want to, on a night, they can bypass the cascade.
Filter's still running, because the water's still going through it,
but the water, instead of going up to the cascade,
goes straight back to the pond.
So it keeps the filter alive, but it just cuts out the noise.
Personally, I like the cascade on, like that.
This is a view from pretty high up.
On the patio, nice view.
Pond's roughly 4.5 meters by 4.5 meters by a meter deep.
There's quite a few shelves.
This area over here is like a shallow end,
and then it's shelves all the way around the edges here,
deep bit in the middle.
Quite a nice feature in the garden.
So that's the finished pond.
Hope you've enjoyed this video.
You wanna see some more, check out my channel.
There's loads of videos on there.
I think there's probably about 950 or thereabouts now.
Not all pond related but there's quite
a few pond ones in the pond playlists.
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It's exactly how I wanted it to be.
I didn't want any small amounts of candy on the food.
Making dreams a reality.
