I built a small pond a few years ago........and loved it so much I wanted a much bigger one. I have been working on this one in my spare time, so it has take me almost a year to complete it. I dug out the pond by hand (stress therapy), to find out two inches under the sand is iron ore rock, so it took nine months to dig, but everything else has happened over the last five weeks. Here is a pic of my pond after I lined it and put in water. ( I will have to post in several times to get my pics in)
Home stretch on my DIY pond
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I built a small pond a few years ago........and loved it so much I wanted a much bigger one. I have been working on this one in my spare time, so it has take me almost a year to complete it. I dug out the pond by hand (stress therapy), to find out two inches under the sand is iron ore rock, so it took nine months to dig, but everything else has happened over the last five weeks. Here is a pic of my pond after I lined it and put in water. ( I will have to post in several times to get my pics in)
In this pic you can see the Skippy filter behind the waterfall (man does that thing work....two days and my pond was almost clear!) There is still alot of work to be done....tonight we will start putting flagstone around the pond, but we still need to add more pebbles, do the landscaping, finish hiding the liner, finish mortaring stones....you know how it goes! I will post more pics soon, but I am having a hard time deciding whether to flagstone the sides of the stream or to do rocks and mortar them together like on the sides of the waterfall basin. Any suggestions?
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In this pic you can see the Skippy filter behind the waterfall (man does that thing work....two days and my pond was almost clear!) There is still alot of work to be done....tonight we will start putting flagstone around the pond, but we still need to add more pebbles, do the landscaping, finish hiding the liner, finish mortaring stones....you know how it goes! I will post more pics soon, but I am having a hard time deciding whether to flagstone the sides of the stream or to do rocks and mortar them together like on the sides of the waterfall basin. Any suggestions?
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Looking good! you can put in 5 pictures per post.
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Looking good! you can put in 5 pictures per post.
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warren_tax said:
I would do flagstone with small rocks. I used flagstone in az with crushed granite, it ended up looking real natural. The crushed granite was the same color as the flagstone.
Love the waterfall, and the stone work, you are doing great!
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warren_tax said:
I would do flagstone with small rocks. I used flagstone in az with crushed granite, it ended up looking real natural. The crushed granite was the same color as the flagstone.
Love the waterfall, and the stone work, you are doing great!
Here is a picture of the 2nd fall, from the waterfall basin to the stream. The second picture is the waterfall weir I made coming out of the skippy filter. That was my DH idea.....I was going to use a #5 storage bin like the youtube guy makes! Anyway feedback and suggestions are always appreciated! Thanks!
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Here is a picture of the 2nd fall, from the waterfall basin to the stream. The second picture is the waterfall weir I made coming out of the skippy filter. That was my DH idea.....I was going to use a #5 storage bin like the youtube guy makes! Anyway feedback and suggestions are always appreciated! Thanks!
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Come do my rock work! lol
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Come do my rock work! lol
Lol!! I was pretty proud of it (for a girl anyway :regular_waving_emot ) My husband told me when I finished the waterfall, the base of the skippy (it is rocked and mortared around the whole back) and the majority of the base of the waterfall basin that the only thing that would have made it look better was if he had done it! (I think he was kidding) Thanks for the encouragement! I look at all of these beautiful ponds on here and can't wait for the day when mine is done and I can just enjoy it! In the meantime I am just enjoying working on it, as it is a huge stress reliever!
Lol!! I was pretty proud of it (for a girl anyway :regular_waving_emot ) My husband told me when I finished the waterfall, the base of the skippy (it is rocked and mortared around the whole back) and the majority of the base of the waterfall basin that the only thing that would have made it look better was if he had done it! (I think he was kidding) Thanks for the encouragement! I look at all of these beautiful ponds on here and can't wait for the day when mine is done and I can just enjoy it! In the meantime I am just enjoying working on it, as it is a huge stress reliever!
Very nice weir!