Subj : Re: Ponds
To   : esc
From : Avon
Date : Fri Apr 07 2023 11:26:46

On 03 Apr 2023 at 11:54p, esc pondered and said...
 
 es>  Av> I've been working on a fish pond that's been leaking and to be honest
 es>  Av> have not been as busy in the geek space as I have been but I think as
 es>  Av> move into winter here I'll get more active again :)
 es> 
 es> Interesting - did you lay down something to seal it and then spread heavy
 es> boulders and things along the bottom to keep it in place? A friend of
 es> mine's dad built a pond in his back yard when we were kids, he was
 es> always out there messing with his pond and making his wife mad since he
 es> spent so much of his time there lol.

It's a rough cast concrete pond that came with the house when we bought it.

To start with we had tried to put a pond liner in but that was a massive fail as I had to cut it to accommodate an overflow pipe that comes up from the base of the pond. Looking back I don't know why I bothered with that idea.

So this time around it was swimming pool paint (only colour is a light blue - sigh) and before we used it we cleaned out the pond, got rid of all loose stones and grit in it. Then ran a coat of some pre-sealer paint we were told to use before using the pool paint.

Then did 3 coats of pool paint and waited 2 weeks before filling up the pond

Now we've bought 6 new terracotta pots that we can put the Lillys back into and this weekend is all about doing that and tidying up some stonework.

Hopefully in a few more weeks we can buy some goldfish and get them in

It's autumn here and getting colder quick, so I am hopeful in the coming weeks we can get it sorted before the weekends become too meh.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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