Building Ideas

[crawls]

Yeah I'm trying to keep it as something that I enjoy so I'm trying not to rush to get it all done, I'm bad about researching something FOREVER before I finally commit any time or effort to it.

That's how I ended up here months in advance of me even wanting to build one!

I always like to be prepared and try to know what I'm doing even if I have never done it before.

 

[addy1]

Good for you it will save you a lot of headaches in the long run. Do pictures of your yard and use paint shop to draw in your pond, that helps a lot with visualizing how it will look.

While you are waiting to stick the shovel in the ground.

 

[sissy]

You can even use the heavy duty landscaping fabric and just double it up if you feel you may not need more than that I put wet sand in mine packed it tight against the sides and tamped the bottom hard and put down an old tarp I had and then landscaping fabric .Made a nice base .I have heavy clay soil so was easy to shape and tamp hard and the tamper hits a rock you hear it go ping

 

[crawls]

Yeah I plan on trying to get lots of pictures of before and during the process of building it.

Right now I'm still debating on whether I want a more free form shape or a more geometric one.

I guess noone can really help me with that one though, especially having never seen where I'm looking to put it!

 

[sissy]

no but I went with rectangle and found it was really hard to do the folds flat and looking nice .I almost gave up on that shape but I wanted a bridge and needed the pond raised on 3 sides because I wanted to be able to see and hear it from my front porch .

 

[crawls]

I'm still debating on all these things... so many options to choose from!

Oh well I'm off to bed, gotta be up at 3 to work another 14 hour night!

 

[addy1]

Sleep well! the 14 hours helps pay for your new pond!

 

[crawls]

I think I may have found some good help and advice from a member. Fishin4cars lives about 40 minutes away and said he and a friend are interested in starting a business and want to get some work in to put in a portfolio.

It'll be good to have some experience hands helping.

 

[addy1]

Great, fishin has a very nice pond and it is wonderful to have help!

Fantastic fishin nice of you to offer the help and build your portfolio!

 

[j.w]

Cool on you all getting to meet each other and enjoy pondering together :lol: