Post #307263 by pariartspaul on Fri, May 18, 2007 7:54 AM

Okay I'm FINALLY getting some work done to my backyard pond! A few years ago I posted something here about building my 'dream pond'. Well I started it a year and a half ago and it's been just a muddy hole sitting there. Richard says he'll kill me if I don't have it done for 4th of July.... so... LOOK!


I'm finally moving on it! It will be chlorinated.. it's meant to be a wading pond... so we'll be able to sit in it and put our cocktails on the edge. Water depth will be about 32" and the whole thing is roughly 16 feet long by about 7 feet wide. I've got the equipment hooked up to it already. It's got a pool pump, strainer basket and cartridge filter. With the pump I have, the entire water volume will be replaced about every hour or so. That fiberglass rock thing on the right will be a waterfall. My version of Schweitzer Falls! There will be another small waterfall on the left.
The concrete inside will be sculpted in very smooth rock shapes, and then the concrete above will be to look like lava rock formations. There will be lots of planter pockets hidden in the rockwork above. The rock will be black. I'll use an epoxy sealer on the underwater sections and plain paint on the top sections.
Our friend Tony is coming over later today to help me pour the back edge, and then tonight I will do the finish sculpting on the back edge section.
It's getting there!!

Paul

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