We were initially going to simply cover the excavation with pond liner on the naive belief that the walls would remain intact and not need any strengthening. Ha. After a few heavy northern rivers downpours one side of the pond started to collapse into itself and became progressively worse over the next couple of weeks. So...
the only option really was to use these blocks and create interior walls for the pond over which the rubberised pond liner will be placed to create a waterproof seal. This has been an excruciatingly slow and tedious (and heavy job) which Steve carried out pretty much on his lonesome...
and with help from Taylor yesterday with mixing the concrete and concreting the whole structure nice and secure. We are off to Newcastle for a few days today and then hopefully we might be able to make some excellent progress on completing the pond and starting on the deck properly. We are picking up another Helper, Chris, French guy, from Newcastle, so progress could well be boosted.
We were initially going to simply cover the excavation with pond liner on the naive belief that the walls would remain intact and not need any strengthening. Ha. After a few heavy northern rivers downpours one side of the pond started to collapse into itself and became progressively worse over the next couple of weeks. So...
the only option really was to use these blocks and create interior walls for the pond over which the rubberised pond liner will be placed to create a waterproof seal. This has been an excruciatingly slow and tedious (and heavy job) which Steve carried out pretty much on his lonesome...
and with help from Taylor yesterday with mixing the concrete and concreting the whole structure nice and secure. We are off to Newcastle for a few days today and then hopefully we might be able to make some excellent progress on completing the pond and starting on the deck properly. We are picking up another Helper, Chris, French guy, from Newcastle, so progress could well be boosted.
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looks great, guys! Just a tip from own experience: Before you put the pond liner in, you need some other soft liner in books they say old carpet or similar will do). The blocks have a relatively rough surface, and can easily the (pretty strong) pond liner...
I can't get myself to strat digging out our "main" pond - the soil is so nasty! Hard like concrete in summer, and lumpy, sticky and heavy in winter....:(
Thanks muchly for the advice, Micha....will take it on board.
Hope you boys have a wonderful xmas and new years!
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