Hi Folks,
First, I'm so glad to see so many pond enthusiasts here.
About four years ago, my wife and I purchased a house with a pool and a hot tub. I've never been a hot tub person so I've never used it. Over the past winter, our above ground hot tub blew it's 220v breaker and the tub froze over. Needless to say, the plumbing froze and burst as well. The hot tub was above 19yrs old so I wasn't overly upset nor was my wife. So here we are, an old broken hot tub that we never used, just sitting there to be discarded as we decided it wasn't worth getting fixed. Then got an idea! Could I convert/change this old useless hot tub into a water garden (pond)? ... maybe with fish! I proposed my idea to my wife who didn't quite turn down the idea but had the "OMG ... here we go" look expression. She just asked a couple questions. First question, will the water garden have fish. My answer was ... um ... no ... not yet anyways (I lied ... lol). Second question, what colour is the pond going to be? I was like ... um ... what do you mean? She was concerned the pond was going to have the "Spa" colour (the same colour of the hot tub shell), which was a bright aqua bluish green colour, which would have made the water garden look amateurish, which was her main concern. I was able to convince her the new water garden would be a good thing!
So here we are, three weeks later, at the tail end of the hot tub/water garden project, it's almost done! All I need to do now is trim the pond liner from the water garden (pond).
Before ...
https://tinyurl.com/yd2zwgb3
After ... (near completion)
https://tinyurl.com/yajcwllc
Unfortunately, I was unable upload the video clips directly so I hope this is acceptable.
I'll update this thread once I trim the pond liner away from the water garden (pond).
Thanks,
Dave
First, I'm so glad to see so many pond enthusiasts here.
About four years ago, my wife and I purchased a house with a pool and a hot tub. I've never been a hot tub person so I've never used it. Over the past winter, our above ground hot tub blew it's 220v breaker and the tub froze over. Needless to say, the plumbing froze and burst as well. The hot tub was above 19yrs old so I wasn't overly upset nor was my wife. So here we are, an old broken hot tub that we never used, just sitting there to be discarded as we decided it wasn't worth getting fixed. Then got an idea! Could I convert/change this old useless hot tub into a water garden (pond)? ... maybe with fish! I proposed my idea to my wife who didn't quite turn down the idea but had the "OMG ... here we go" look expression. She just asked a couple questions. First question, will the water garden have fish. My answer was ... um ... no ... not yet anyways (I lied ... lol). Second question, what colour is the pond going to be? I was like ... um ... what do you mean? She was concerned the pond was going to have the "Spa" colour (the same colour of the hot tub shell), which was a bright aqua bluish green colour, which would have made the water garden look amateurish, which was her main concern. I was able to convince her the new water garden would be a good thing!
So here we are, three weeks later, at the tail end of the hot tub/water garden project, it's almost done! All I need to do now is trim the pond liner from the water garden (pond).
Before ...
https://tinyurl.com/yd2zwgb3
After ... (near completion)
https://tinyurl.com/yajcwllc
Unfortunately, I was unable upload the video clips directly so I hope this is acceptable.
I'll update this thread once I trim the pond liner away from the water garden (pond).
Thanks,
Dave