Stone pond constructed may 2011 at Blackhill, near Consett, Co. Durham.
I really should have taken some footage of the stages involved in the pond construction as there were alot of different skills used during building.
The pond is approx. 2.7m x 2.7m (9' x 9') with a curved front and is approx. 0.6m (2') deep. The wall which acts as a raised bed to house the cascade is made of a blobkwork wall (over a concrete foundation) faced with selected walling stone.
The top of the wall is made from walling stone which has been hand cut to act as coin stones which would normally be found on a dry stone wall. The wall is secured with cement at the back of the stones (so cement can't be seen) which gives the wall the 'dry stone' effect. The vertical capping stones are secured with cement.
Pump for cascade ia a Pondtec 2500 which is rated at 2500 litres per hour.
Filter pump is an Oase Filtral 5.000 - see review of this filter in my pond playlist.
For further details of my landscaping work, visit http://www.pondguru.co.uk or check the dozens of other videos in my pond playlist.
If you feel like having a go yourself, our shop website is http://www.tynevalleyaquatics.co.uk Our shop is based at Prudhoe, Northumberland and supplies pond pumps, flters, liners, fish, plants and associated equipment.
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Here's a very quick video to show you the latest pond that we've done,
That's what I've done.
very quick because it's windy and starting to rain,
beautiful British weather. This is a pond
approximately nine foot
by nine foot along
the straight edges,
approximately
two foot deep in
the middle of there and in there there's a 2500 liter
an hour pump supplying the cascade which
is in the raised bed that we built up
and there's also a Filtral 5000 filter and pump.
It's like a combined unit thing with the UV in,
that keeps the water clear.
Although it's not too clear now,
I've just put some plants in this morning.
The liner
in here
is one mil
butyl rubber,
it's actually
firestone
rubber,
not strictly
butyl,
millimeter thick firestone rubber over a polyester underlay
and the raised bed here
was built up with blocks over a concrete foundation
and then it was faced off with dry stone wall.
which is actually cemented between the the dry stone
and the blocks it gives it a dry stone
effect but it gives it the stability of a standard wall
the capping that goes all the way around is
just sandstone same as the wall and stone
which was hand cut to a roughly semi-circular sort of
a shape and cemented on in the vertical position um just
so it mirrors what you see all around the
around the UK, more so in the north I suppose.
uh in the way of dry stone walls the cascade
was built cemented together again with cement
over rubber and underlay all of that's obviously hidden
and the edging stones were again sandstone
if you notice they're sitting on more dry stone walling i tend
to allow an extra shelf inside
the pond and i build that up with a dry stone wall it hides
the liner it stops the sides from
It provides some caving in and it
also gives support for your edging stones.
means that the water levels can
fluctuate and you don't see
the line around the edges.
The raised bed is going to be planted up with dwarf conifers
and probably heathers,
but seeing as it's not pond things,
that's not my jurisdiction, I tend to just stick to the ponds.
So that's it, brief video of our latest pond.
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