Building a 8'x10'x5' deep pond into basically solid rock 6" under ground
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Well, to give you an idea of how im finishing it. Going to go out now to get back to work on it, thou its Fing cold!
stroppy
stroppy
that rock on a roll looks pretty good ...wish i had thought of it .......nice to see you working in day light for a change even if a bit cold !!! :biggrin:
Ya, its going to work, the rest of the rocks wont be coverd completely only on the inside, but the seam looked to weird on those, so I covered them completly as there what you see the most of, but the rest you mostly only see the inside. And I will have plants all on that edge so it should look good.
The link to the Rock on a Roll place is down. I wonder if they are out of business. Even all the Google hits to their site are broken.
I was going to add them to my list of hyperlinks I have for interesting and hard to find products.
I was going to add them to my list of hyperlinks I have for interesting and hard to find products.
stroppy
stroppy
is this the one drdave http://www.rock-on-a-roll.com/
koiguy1969
GIGGETY-GIGGETY!!
thats the one..and it was down earlier today..but its back up!
This one works. The one in the attached letter below does not.
Its cold....Will def post more up as I make more progress and finish and get fish next year.
Wouldn't it be cheaper if you used the rock on a roll legthwise versus up and down like that? Have you tried it the other way, too? Or is there a specific look you are going for?
aviator79 said:
Probably kind of late on this, but I found this great stuff called Rock on a roll
http://www.rock-on-a-roll.com/
the rock to the right hand side is covered with the stuff. It has variations and looks pretty good and was an easy install the liner was put over the rock and we put this stuff over the rock to get rid of the ugly black protrusion out of the water. The stuff is like hevy wallpaper and had very little dust fly off when put into the pond.
koikeepr said:
On the right side of the falls I did it up and down because the top of each one overlaps the top of each rock. Did this for looks so you would not see the rock on a wall seam where it meats the real rock as they were different enough it would look silly. It also makes each one look more like a real rock. In the front I did roll it along lengthwise as that seam will be on the inside and not seen. So the rock on a wall is on the inside covering the liner seam and the top of the rocks are natural. I was working on the left side at the end of the fall and it has issues due to it being lower than I wanted. The rock I used on that side gave me lots of problems trying to build the height a couple of inches as they all had slants and points and crazy...
As soon as it warms up im going to use cement to make it how i want it and then use cover it in small rocks to look natural. But I have been thinking if I could figure out a way to build in a skimmer there it would be ideal. Not sure how to do that thou.
Thinking like the small cal skimmer:
but would need another pump and want it to be invisible from the outside so not sure. Almost thinking it would be easier to make something myself. I just think that with the tree above I will need one, especially come fall.
I want to be up and running in a month thou so need to finish and find some fish.
Unfortunately Im not finished renovating the basement, but if it gets warm then I can always take a break to at least get the pond up and running.
We'll see...may snow again for all I know.
I got 6 koi from a koi farm in North Haven, CT 2 weeks ago. A few plants. Still need to finish certain things but its up and running. I think the water is too cold as the fish arent eating.
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