New Pond'r from New Jersey

[addy1]

lol I would pay for the light bulb rather than deal with a frozen door.

 

[sissy]

spray the door jamb with wd 40 it should help keep it from freezing a little .If not you can use spray deicer like you use on your car wind shield .

 

[Mucky_Waters]

I’ll probably be using same system I used on the greenhouse door, and that is to make a sort of removable door out of Styrofoam that fits tight inside the door opening. It insulates from the cold and blocks the moisture from condensing around the door. I’m just too cheap to drive my truck into town to buy the Styrofoam. The gas for the trip will cost me more than the Styrofoam board, and probably more than I would pay for electricity to run that bulb for 2 years. LOL

 

[sissy]

ask any one for stuff that was packed in styrofoam maybe that will help for now .

 

[j.w]

Yep I bet lots of neighbors will be throwing away lots of Styrofoam during Christmas from all the packages.

 

[addy1]

can't recycle it either

 

[sissy]

just do like jw does walk along a pick pick pick .

 

[j.w]

You got that right...........I ain't proud! If somebody's throwing something away and I think I can use it then it's mine baby,lol!

 

[Mucky_Waters]

I recycle lots of stuff, but small odd shaped pieces of Styrofoam would be hard (nearly impossible), to make into solid tight fitting door.
I’ll eventually have to run into town with my truck for something else, then I’ll be able to justify picking up a proper foam board, till then I’ll just watch the weather forecast. If it looks like it’s gona get cold, or I go away for a while, I’ll turn on the light bulb.

I was checking things out in that room today for a bit, realized I forgot to drain my pump when I drained tanks and lines. That could have cost be a pump. The pump even has an easy to use built in drain plug on the front of the impeller chamber too.

 

[PonderingPonds]

Pond is officially 'winterized'. I cut the pool noodle in sections and wrapped them in a plastic bag, then put both into the bottom drain pipe and closed the 4" gate valve, the water was numbing!
Here is the latest state of the rock work around the pond, almost there... (Sissy, the main tarp is finally down)

I'm currently working on getting a deck together to cover the filter pit, it will be waterproof and hinge up in two different sections.

 

[addy1]

Looking good there, that will be a nice filter area when you are done

 

[Mucky_Waters]

The hindged deck idea looks good. You could probably insulate the deck floor too, that would help keep the worst of the cold from getting to that drain pipe.

Today I tried to open the door to my pump room and it was stuck a bit with ice. I better get on that.

 

[Waterbug]

PP, the hole with the filters, what's the cement wall connected to? Looks like a foundation wall and you're all the way down to the footing.

 

[sissy]

odd as most houses in NJ have basements ,except by the shore area's as it is to sandy

 

[PonderingPonds]

[sub]WaterBug, yes the filter pit is right up against the foundation and pretty much at the footing, the house is a raised ranch, so the basement is only partially in the ground, maybe 4 feet. [/sub]
[sub]The ground is sandy soil but we are about 25 miles inland from the beach and thankfully do not have any issues with water in the basement. [/sub]

[sub]I just about finished the decking, ended up one board short and need to make another trip to Lowes... here are the latest pic's. [/sub]