Pimp My Pond! Pond re-design & construction part #2: pond lining & initial rock work
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Ed & Dan continue battling the elements and progress with the pond re-line & re-design. The pond liner goes in, the pond is filled for the first time and work begins on building up the edging rockwork.
Hi Ed, just re watching this for the third time, l know this pond turns out great water blade lighting and all, l saw Dans comments the other week "Friday nights beers dont taste the same" lt came over loud and clear through all the hard graft you two had a lot of fun on this build.
Hi Norman- 3 times?!! That’s where all the increase in views is coming from then!! Absolutely, lots of fun along with some hard graft for some proper male bonding!
Thanks as ever for watching and commenting!
Best,
Ed
I was looking forwards to this, it looks amazing. Dream pond! Looks like hard work.... I can't wait for the next one.
Thanks Thomas! Next part coming out very soon…. Thanks for watching and for your comment.
Best,
Ed
Brilliant mate, can’t wait to see the next video cheers - Tony (New Zealand)
Cheers Tony in New Zealand!! Always amazes me i’m getting views from so far and wide!
Stay lucky,
Ed
This is going to look fantastic when its done
Thanks Paul and thanks for watching and your feedback!
Best,
Ed
Fantastic job their guys 👍 love the stone walling.
Thanks very much and thanks for watching!
Best,
Ed
Wow what a cracking pond you guys have done an absolutely amazing job well done 👍👌
Thanks very much for watching and for your positive feedback- makes all the difference!
Best regards,
Ed
Happy new year. Great to see you and another pond. looking forward to part 3. Great stuff Ed, very informative, fascinating an the best pond vids anywhere:) I've been rebuilding my pond for at least 2 years now. This will be the year thanks to you inspiring me to keep going.
Thank you so much for such a great comment!
Cheers for watching and good luck with your project!
Best,
Ed
Pond is looking good! Great job on the music too!
Thanks Stevie- never mind the pond i’m more excited to get some feedback on the music!!😉
Best regards,
Ed
Great work just subscribed look forward to future videos 👍
Thanks Dave and welcome to the channel!
Best,
Ed
3:05 I’ll be honest…. Im with Dan 😂
I think as this one has Koi going back in on completion, this one might be my favourite 👍🏼
Some back breaking work going into this one chaps 😮
Hard to keep a straight face working with Dan- he didn’t make the filming easy!!! Cheers for watching and for your comment Alex!
All the best,
Ed
1 beast of a job with all that elbow grease hard graft etc..- do an ancestory search please to see if you are all related to the pyramid builders
Cheers David! I like to look at jobs like this as paid exercise! Thanks for watching and for your comment!
Best,
Ed
Love your videos was wondering could u keep tropical fish in a big pond
HI there, thanks for watching and commenting! You could indeed in theory have a tropical pond- however in our climate in the uk having an external pond heated to 75 f/24c consistently will require some expensive heating bills and a well thought out design of the pond to have maximum insulation. In a water gardens I used to work in we had a large 500gallon/2500 litre tropical pond indoors with a large red tail catfish, Giant gourami, shovelnose cats, Oscar’s, tinfoil barbs, leopard plecos to name a few species. In such space they all got on together very well and was a great feature!
Best,
Ed
I wonder if a rounded blade on your bolster chisel would cut or split the stone better , ☺️
I find the opposite is true and I’m frequently sharpening my chisels to improve their stone splitting abilities!
Thankfully the stone I tend to regularly work with is pretty easy to split successfully.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Best,
Ed
Hi Edd, any tips on a koi with a swim bladder issue? He's about 8 years old was spotted upside down this morning.
Hi Ed, loved watching your videos on making great ponds - I'm currently using your ideas for my pond. I have a question - for your marginal planting zones.... You make the top line of stone around 25mm below the water line. Do you tie the stone work into the pond wall or leave it standalone ? My real thought is how does water get into the planting zone, is it only by the 25mm over the marginal wall or do you allow water to seep through the stonework somehow ? thanks in advance Steve.
HI there Steve, thanks for your comment and my apologies for the slow response- a good question! So the marginal retainers tend not to be tied in, or if they are only by perhaps the lowest tier of stone. When laying the stone I try to ensure that I leave a few small gaps here and there, or make sure that final pointing height is a little lower then the top of the rock in a few areas, to help water flow/circulation in these zones. However this isn’t really necessary- the mortar securing the stonework isnt waterproof- as water level in the main pond reaches the height of the marginal zones you’ll see that these zones begin to fill even before water level reaches the top of the retainer, as it seeps through tiny gaps between the stone/mortar and the pond liner.
Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
Best,
Ed
@@CrystalClearAquatics Hi Ed, thanks for your reply - we've gone ahead and made the marginal zone, with gaps in the stone, so just as you said. With 10mm (washed as Dan did!) pea gravel as the marginal area, some did come through the holes, so i've placed a small amount of weed control around the holes to prevent fish going in and bits coming out. Water flows nicely though. We cemented to the main wall but not truely tied in. (If i could work out how to add a picture (if allowed) I would. Thanks again - need to watch #5 now to see your finished pond.
Why did you not just wrap the liner in fleece and roll it?🤷♂️
Mmmnnnnn… looking back Im not sure- that would have been much easier!!! From memory I think the liner roll was too wide to get through the gate and a couple of pinch points and so we just persevered with our slightly rudimentary and laborious technique😂
Thanks for watching and your comment!
Best,
Ed
What a mess you have made to the garden. That wouldn’t have happened with the old chap you used to have with you.
You have to break an egg to make an omelette! Thanks for watching and commenting-although please reserve judgment until you’ve seen the completed pond…The garden was left in a very tidy state once work had completed!
Best,
Ed
Part 2 just in time to watch with a cup of tea 🫖 🙂
Good to hear!
Best,
Ed