Hello. The story so far is bought a house with a waterfall but it was neglected and rotted out. I mean algae super thick in the pools and the upper liner was rotted out and patched with plastic bags and black goop. Just gross stuff. A 3 hp pump with a missing drain screw and stripped out threads around the same drain hole was another issue. Long story short I have replaced the pump with a 3/4 hp which is much nicer, the 3 was way too much flow and too loud. And I have relined the upper pond and the bottom pool liner still holds water well.
My problem has always loosing water. That old upper liner was the most obvious issue, I had tried patching it at first but replaced the liner the next year. It used to run for about 2 hours before the fill valve couldn't keep up and it would need to be turned off. New liner would make it run to like 6 hours. At this point both ponds held water just fine, then I used waterfall foam to seal the big joints in the rocks where most of the water runs and places it would pool and run into the walls, and this has brought me up to about 8 or 9 hours of use before I need to shut it off. I can see trickles of water coming out from behind rocks so water is definitely getting back there. It's also kind of concerning knowing I'm putting so much water back there all summer. I'm sure there must be something out there that is made for sealing up rocks in water like that?
The things I want to accomplish is, I want to seal up the joints in the water fall, and I want to finish up both ponds with concrete or whatever people do to finish up these things. Something to make it more streamline so I can blast pine needles out of there with a pressure washer when drained would be ideal.
Looking for recommendations on products and advice because I have never really done anything even related to this kinda thing.
The pics show what the waterfall looks like, the trickling coming out behind some rocks, where the water fall leaves the top pond, and the drained and de-rocked lower pond.
My problem has always loosing water. That old upper liner was the most obvious issue, I had tried patching it at first but replaced the liner the next year. It used to run for about 2 hours before the fill valve couldn't keep up and it would need to be turned off. New liner would make it run to like 6 hours. At this point both ponds held water just fine, then I used waterfall foam to seal the big joints in the rocks where most of the water runs and places it would pool and run into the walls, and this has brought me up to about 8 or 9 hours of use before I need to shut it off. I can see trickles of water coming out from behind rocks so water is definitely getting back there. It's also kind of concerning knowing I'm putting so much water back there all summer. I'm sure there must be something out there that is made for sealing up rocks in water like that?
The things I want to accomplish is, I want to seal up the joints in the water fall, and I want to finish up both ponds with concrete or whatever people do to finish up these things. Something to make it more streamline so I can blast pine needles out of there with a pressure washer when drained would be ideal.
Looking for recommendations on products and advice because I have never really done anything even related to this kinda thing.
The pics show what the waterfall looks like, the trickling coming out behind some rocks, where the water fall leaves the top pond, and the drained and de-rocked lower pond.