ididntdoit99
ididntdoit99
Dig starts this weekend, hopefully the liner will be here, if not, im sure I can do most of the digging without it.
After last fall, with the nieghbors dog standing on the plant shelf chewing a hole in the liner, I decided if I was going to rebuild I was going bigger! I keep falling in love with koi and buying more anyway, and I knew I would need a bigger pond if I kept buying them.
So, my previous 8x10x4 feet (at the deepest) will now be a 9X15X4 (4 feet deep across the whole pond this time to get as much volume out of my liner as possible.) which should bring me from around 1600 gallons to right over 4,000 gallons according to a quick pond volume calculator I used.
Thinking bottom drain this time, to help with the leaves, or at least gather them all to one area, I have scrapped my idea of moving the entire pond right outside my back door, there is just too much stuff I would have to move around,including the dog kennel which is connected to the back of the garage so they can go in and out.
And now I'm trying to figure out if I will fence in my entire backyeard to keep neighbors dog out, or just put like a 4 foot picket fence around the pond area to keep animals away. Being as we now have the one year old girl wandering around the yard every chance she gets... I might go for the latter and worry about fencing in the whole yard later. I first built the pond when my son was 4, so it was alot easier to teach him he couldn't go near the pond without me, the one year old isnt quite as responsive yet.
Will try to remember to stop all my working to take lots of pictures during the rebuild.
After last fall, with the nieghbors dog standing on the plant shelf chewing a hole in the liner, I decided if I was going to rebuild I was going bigger! I keep falling in love with koi and buying more anyway, and I knew I would need a bigger pond if I kept buying them.
So, my previous 8x10x4 feet (at the deepest) will now be a 9X15X4 (4 feet deep across the whole pond this time to get as much volume out of my liner as possible.) which should bring me from around 1600 gallons to right over 4,000 gallons according to a quick pond volume calculator I used.
Thinking bottom drain this time, to help with the leaves, or at least gather them all to one area, I have scrapped my idea of moving the entire pond right outside my back door, there is just too much stuff I would have to move around,including the dog kennel which is connected to the back of the garage so they can go in and out.
And now I'm trying to figure out if I will fence in my entire backyeard to keep neighbors dog out, or just put like a 4 foot picket fence around the pond area to keep animals away. Being as we now have the one year old girl wandering around the yard every chance she gets... I might go for the latter and worry about fencing in the whole yard later. I first built the pond when my son was 4, so it was alot easier to teach him he couldn't go near the pond without me, the one year old isnt quite as responsive yet.
Will try to remember to stop all my working to take lots of pictures during the rebuild.
