POND NEWBIE help with liner size!!!!!!

[GarethSmyth]

Do not put this "liner" in your pond. You will regret it. Please listen to this advice.

do you have a reason for this?

 

[jakkbauer]

do you have a reason for this?

If you haven't even gotten started why would you go with the cheapest crappiest material? Just put in the right thing the first time and save yourself the trouble of bad "liner".

 

[GarethSmyth]

If you haven't even gotten started why would you go with the cheapest crappiest material? Just put in the right thing the first time and save yourself the trouble of bad "liner".

we are on a very tight budget at the minute and are ok with having to replace it in the future.

 

[jakkbauer]

we are on a very tight budget at the minute and are ok with having to replace it in the future.

Honestly just wait to save the few hundred however long that takes. It's worth it. Have some patience and do it right.

Edit: this is my professional opinion having seen plenty of horrible builds using tarps.

 

[sissy]

isn't that what one of our ponders put in that is rebuilding there pond now .

 

[tbendl]

Hi we ordered a 16x20 liner from billboard tarps and when it comes we are going to downsize the hole we have already dug!

I used a billboard tarp for my pond. I installed it early 2014 and I have some serious bubbling going on. I did it this way because I wasn't sure I wanted a pond.
The issue is now that I am 2 years in, I have all kinds of lovely lily's and creatures and fish and now I have to move all of them out and buy a new liner and completely gut my pond. I didn't plan on having fish so springing a leak wasn't a big deal.... Until I added fish...
I understand the budget constraints but depending on what you are doing and what you will have in there you may want to reconsider.
Now I will say mine gets full sun.
Good luch and welcome!!
And yes @sissy it's me!! Lol

 

[sissy]

I didn't want to mention name .I figure you would chime in

 

[tbendl]

Hahaha no shame in my tarp game. LOL

 

[sissy]

I know the tarp liners they sell in higher mils .I saw 30 mil and 40 mil

 

[tbendl]

Oh noo I think mine was like 9 or 12, nowhere near that thickness.

 

[sissy]

I counted all my banana plants and right now 96 of them in the ground and 9 of them out of the ground ready for new homes .I am being banana attacked

 

[jakkbauer]

Dead thread. Lesson here is go EPDM or gtfo

 

[tbendl]

I don't think that's true, I think if I had kept my pond fish free, I would not have regretted the tarp liner. Different people have different plans with their pond and telling them to gtfo isn't what this pond forum is about.

 

[jakkbauer]

Well at the point we start talking a bout bananas I think it's a dead thread. By the way I did not literally mean gtfo, I just mean do the job right or don't do it at all, as with all things in life. If you are not prepared, do not undertake a home improvement task...... It's pretty basic stuff.

 

[jakkbauer]

Oh and btw a tarp in the ground is just a hole, not a pond