After graduating from my 30 gal 'peanut' pond to a whopping 50 gal 'kidney'
pond. I thought, hmmm.... wouldn't it be great to connect the two with a small
waterfall/spillway? The idea is to have the pump/filter in the lower kidney pond
feeding the upper peanut pond and have the water return to the lower kidney
pond via a waterfall roughly about a foot high. I have an idea about how to go
about it, but would love to hear some input from those of you with experience
in this sort of venture.
P
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:50:37 -0400, Prudence Pondsworth <p...@askme.com>
wrote:
Interesting! That's what I want to do, just have a waterfall instead of a
stream. I'm having trouble visualizing this bracket thingie. Could you
elaborate Honey?
P
P
I went to Lowes and got some 1/8 inch thick by 2 inches wide steel
stock. I also got about a dozen bolts and washer. I cut the stock
and made two u shaped brackes, one for each side. (each side has three
peices, one for the bottom and two for the sides). I then drilled
holes through the stock at about three inch intervals. Being that I
like tools, I tapped one side and ran the bolts through then. I then
cut a u shaped peice out of my preformed pond, a little smaller than
the bracket. I then drill hole through the preformed pond, put the
bracket with the bolts sticking out trough the hole in the preformed.
I did this from the outside. this was the hard part. I realy did not
have a way to host the bracket in place while I did the liner, so I
went ahead and put on the inside bracket and put on a few bolts. Then
I layed the liner down, going through my newly formed slot in the
preformed pond. I left plenty of extra liner. Once the liner was
where I wanted it, I punched holes inthe liner where the bolts were
sticking out. Then one peice at a time, starting with the bottom
peice, I pulled the liner back, removed the bracket, applied silicone
II to the liner and preform, and then put the bracked over the liner
and bolted it down. the silcone was insurance, I think the backet
along with the rubber liner would have been all I needed.
Let me know if you need more info. I wish I had taken pictures when I
did it.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:21:49 -0400, Prudence Pondsworth <p...@askme.com>
a notch as you said in the upper pond. And then securing the liner for the
spillway/waterfall to the pond with some pond repair tape I found at the local
Home Depot. (Oh! I love that place! Maybe it's just all those men...)
Anyone have any luck with pond repair tape?
Don't personally know about the tape but a local nursery had a class like
lecture on building ponds last year and I thought to put 2 preforms together
with a section of liner between. They told me to use that Great Stuff foam
to attach and stop leakage. Well I was all for that this spring until my DH
thought that the little 45 gallon pond with the 250 gallon one was a waste.
Needless to say the 250 is up and going and the 45 was tossed and now DH is
planning the new 300-500 gallon addition for this coming spring.
Well! This 'Great Stuff' must really be GREAT STUFF! I think I will try the tape
to attach the liner and if that works out, I will use the spray foam to fill in
around the rocks to channel the water. Oh boy! I get to go to the Home Depot
again! Now if this rain would just stop it for a minute.
Thanks all and have a ponderful weekend!
P
I had a sort of thingie like that in the old pond. It was just an arch of
stacked stones the the fishies could swim through and lurk under.
If this darned rain would hold off a few days, things would dry up a little and
I could get crackin'.
P