CW's Back Yard Water Garden Begins!

[brokensword]

Little bit of potential trouble in paradise. Discovered a 1' section of failing seam in my pond liner. Liner is HDRPE from American Tilapia. Seams are double welded and one of the seams is failing over a 1' section. 2nd weld appears to be strong. So still water tight, but a little concerning. Liner section is in exposed area of stream coming out of filter, so for now I filled the failing section with PL-30 and will hope for the best. Contacting American Tilapia today for advice. Worst case scenario, I'll have to tear apart a small section of the stream and try to re-weld it.

Damn, that's a shame. Sure sounds like you're going to have to do some liner CPR. I know I don't have to tell you about how important this piece of pond equipment is...

Better study up GB's lil post. From everything else you've done, this seems like one you can easily handle. Oh, btw, this won't delay the Nov 17 filling, will it?

Don't mess with me, CW; I gots zoom money on this!!! There might have to be a re-distribution to the OTHER members of the PNW chapter...

 

[Pondfun]

Milk crate modification. Got this idea from @Pondfun some time ago.

I did this last year for my wetland filter. Hold tons of weight.

 

[GBBUDD]

see there's that homework I was talking about. To me trusting milk crates with no spreader bar on the bottom is the weak link . I know it sits in a little lip that helps tremendously but to me it was worth spending the buck on aquablocks. Down the road cw can say see I told yea it would work

 

[GBBUDD]

see there's that homework I was talking about. To me trusting milk crates with no spreader bar on the bottom is the weak link . I know it sits in a little lip that helps tremendously but to me it was worth spending the buck on aquablocks. Down the road cw can say see I told yea it would work we are all risk takers to an extent. We all built a pond where green water stringalgea and prediters can easily make one fill in the pond in short time

 

[combatwombat]

see there's that homework I was talking about. To me trusting milk crates with no spreader bar on the bottom is the weak link . I know it sits in a little lip that helps tremendously but to me it was worth spending the buck on aquablocks. Down the road cw can say see I told yea it would work

Old pig farm milk crates = $0.30/gal storage + many hours of mental and physical labor

Aquablocks = $2.00/gal storage + 0 extra labor

Big savings, but this kind of redneck engineering is only profitable for those of us who bill our time at $0/hr.

 

[combatwombat]

Progress update from yesterday's work session:

 

[GBBUDD]

I WORK FOR OPEN ROAD

 

[combatwombat]

Snuck out for a few minutes today to finish up the pond-side plumbing in the wetland. 3” valve controls flow to bottom of wetland and 2” will be used initially as anti-siphon and later will add a small flower pot fountain.

Wanted to use knife/slide valves to save space, but couldn’t find any locally or on Amazon that would work. Will throw a valve box over this and call it a day.

Now I can fill wetland and test my bulkhead fitting for water tightness.

 

[GBBUDD]

I know there's not a huge difference between the sump and the bog area but no vacuum breaker ?

By the way your shoes untied!

 

[GBBUDD]

Made everyone look yuck yuck

 

[combatwombat]

I know there's not a huge difference between the sump and the bog area but no vacuum breaker ?

By the way your shoes untied!

Vacuum breaker will be on the 2" line.

 

[combatwombat]

Headed off on another side quest. Bought the wife a hot tub yesterday, and now I have to figure out how to move it to my house. It's an oldie (but a goodie!).

If anyone here has been in the hot tub market lately, you'll know how much of a nightmare it is. New ones are stupid expensive and delivery is like 6 months out and all I keep hearing is that manufacturers are working their skeleton crews like dogs, so you're paying a fortune for a hot tub that takes forever to get and is likely to come with problems. Decent used ones on FB or Craigslist are sold a few hours after being posted.

Movers I've talked to so far have said "no thanks." Think I'm going to load Barney up in the dump trailer and try to get my neighbor to haul it over to the tub so I can just hoist it out.

What does this have to do with the pond? Well, it'll probably wreck @brokensword's shot at winning the prize pool.

 

[addy1]

We replaced our in 17 love the sucker, has great jets that help my poor old back when I over work it.

I am trying to get a dishwasher, dear hubby did a opps and fried it. They have them in lowes hd, stores etc. But very limited, I want bosch, at the store we bought it at, click add to cart and it will arrive in 9 months. I did find one at Lowes, more expensive, but actually in the store, so snatched it. They can disappear over night.

 

[brokensword]

We replaced our in 17 love the sucker, has great jets that help my poor old back when I over work it.

I am trying to get a dishwasher, dear hubby did a opps and fried it. They have them in lowes hd, stores etc. But very limited, I want bosch, at the store we bought it at, click add to cart and it will arrive in 9 months. I did find one at Lowes, more expensive, but actually in the store, so snatched it. They can disappear over night.

you actually have TIME to get in a hot tub????? Dayum, who'da thunk it!

ANNNND; isn't dear hubby an ELECTRICIAN???? Gives me hope that the rest of us slobs who aren't specialists, who make mistakes, now know EXPERTS can blink too!


heh heh

 

[addy1]

ANNNND; isn't dear hubby an ELECTRICIAN????

umm yep a BIG OPPS, cost him a pretty penny. Now I get a brand new dishwasher.

you actually have TIME to get in a hot tub????? Dayum, who'da thunk it!

I make the time for it. It keeps me working. If I do too much my back muscles flare up the hot tub cools me off.