So i'm off work for a week and decided to add a pond to our garden, we only moved in like coming up for 8 weeks now and the garden was just straight up and down, trees and bushes either side and a greenhouse at the bottom next to where they used to keep chickens.
So since we had a pond at the old house, one that was there when we moved in, a pre shaped thing it was. We loved it, so we wanted to recreate one but decided to dig it ourselves and its gonna be a wildlife pond.
So i have done the designing, dug the start of it and some of the depth while my dad did most of the depth and then earlier today i got in the pond, sat in all the dirt and shaped the inside for all the creatures that'll eventually live in there!
I do love it already, so tomorrow we're going out to buy sand a pond liner but we're now having to work out how much pond liner to buy!
Its set up so theres a small circle with like two shallower depths for birds bathing, smaller creatures and for like tadpoles and the like and then a small channel just like 6 inches long which then slowly slopes away into the deeper circular pond! The depth of the large one is about 2.5ft, the width of the big one is 6ft and the length from the end of the big one to the end of the small one is 8ft, these are all rough guestimates and could be a little more or a little less.
Does anyone have a good way of work out pond liner needed apart from the old depth by width and depth by length or know of a calculator online thats accurate? Also anywhere in south devon that does cheap but good pond liner, or even somewhere online thats cheap but good? We're out tomorrow to get sand and we're gonna use a neighbours carpet cut offs for extra protection too where there are stones too large to take out of the side without the side falling down haha
So since we had a pond at the old house, one that was there when we moved in, a pre shaped thing it was. We loved it, so we wanted to recreate one but decided to dig it ourselves and its gonna be a wildlife pond.
So i have done the designing, dug the start of it and some of the depth while my dad did most of the depth and then earlier today i got in the pond, sat in all the dirt and shaped the inside for all the creatures that'll eventually live in there!
I do love it already, so tomorrow we're going out to buy sand a pond liner but we're now having to work out how much pond liner to buy!
Its set up so theres a small circle with like two shallower depths for birds bathing, smaller creatures and for like tadpoles and the like and then a small channel just like 6 inches long which then slowly slopes away into the deeper circular pond! The depth of the large one is about 2.5ft, the width of the big one is 6ft and the length from the end of the big one to the end of the small one is 8ft, these are all rough guestimates and could be a little more or a little less.
Does anyone have a good way of work out pond liner needed apart from the old depth by width and depth by length or know of a calculator online thats accurate? Also anywhere in south devon that does cheap but good pond liner, or even somewhere online thats cheap but good? We're out tomorrow to get sand and we're gonna use a neighbours carpet cut offs for extra protection too where there are stones too large to take out of the side without the side falling down haha
