Wednesday 23 September 2015

New Pond Underway

Well the wood has arrived, and construction, is underway, to stop the timber from getting damp, we started with an engineering brick base, for the timers to rest on,



We will be putting a damp proof liner on top of the bricks, before the timber goes on top.

The timber arrived in 2.4m lengths, 20cm X 10cm, and was left to dry out in the garage, for a week or so to allow it to dry out ready for cutting.

I wanted to have around 1500 ltrs of water in the pond, so ended up working back from there, and after a few reworks of the calculation, ended up on a pond size of 1.9m long, by 1.4m wide and 75cm deep, allowing for the wide of the wood (10cm), giving an internal diameters of 1.7m X 1.2m X 75cm, which worked out to 1530 ltrs, which was well with the pump and filters capacity.

The timber was then cut to length, and dry stacked, ready from r assemble and bolting. 



All very exciting, really feels like the pond is finally starting to come together.