Post #307291 by pariartspaul on Fri, May 18, 2007 9:47 AM

Hey tikiskip... no fish! It will be chlorinated like pool water. And surf-n-turf, yes a lot of work, but not too expensive considering. Most of the metal is junk I found over time, along with some purchased rebar. The base of the big waterfall is actually... ready for this... an old shopping cart I found on the street! Solid steel! Ha! The most expensive thing so far was the actual concrete. $375 delivered from Home Depot. I had 35 80lb bags of regualar concrete and 35 bags of 60lb mortar mix. I'll be out of concrete later today already so I'll have to get another load of it. I'm using the concrete for all the poured sections and then the mortar mix for the sculpted sections. I'm adding lime to the mortar mix. It makes it stick better and thickens it up kind of like clay. The sculpting is the fun part. It's kind of like frosting a cake!

Then I bought some concrete blocks... I still need a few more. And miscellaneous pvc plumbing parts. I have the main drain/inlet to the pump all in, but I still have to do the return line and the waterfall lines. I will have valves to all the returns so I can control the waterfall volumes, or turn them off completely and just have the return into the pool itself if I want.

Oh, the pump, filter and basket were pricey. I think I spend about $300 or so on all that, but I bought them last year so the expenses have been spread out.