Bespoke steel liner needed

[Lucy Bentley]

Hello, newbie here. Does anyone know where we can have a bespoke steel liner fabricated please?

We’ve had a disaster today. We built a brick wall and put a flexi Rubber liner inside. it’s been good for a few weeks and today the worst happened. A wall collapsed and all the water and poor koi cane flooding out in a tsunami. We’ve saved the fish thankfully. We’d like to rebuild, but this time insert a steel liner. Recommendations would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[mrsclem]

Welcome Lucy- Wow- That is terrible. glad you were able to save the fish. I'm in the US so have no idea where to get a steel liner.
I sold off the koi from one of my ponds last year in fear of what just happened to you. Wooden pond. walls bowed out so we sold all the fish. Good luck!

 

[GBBUDD]

A steel liner will do almost nothing . it wil help dispers the weight over a larger area but you are still looking at a single layer brick wall it's only so wide it has very little lateral support. it has a great deal more strength where a cap would sit on the wall a double wall with a space between filled with concrete or mortar.
An other option would be to build buttresses. thats a wall that would be decorative in nature but comes off the walls you have at a 90 degree. about every two or three feet.
The third option would be to install a cap that also works as a structural support. in other words make a cap say with a 2x8 and have that sitting on the top of the brick but then have a 2x4 screwed to the 2x8 making a u shape that encapsulates the top of the wall with 3 1/2" drops. that's called a strong back which the grain of the wood works both with the other 2x's and will keep the wall on the top from flexing and blowing out.

 

[j.w]

@Lucy Bentley