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Old July 18th 03, 03:13 PM
Wilson
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BenignVanilla wrote in message
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I'd...

...have all of my plumbing enter the VF at the same location so I could

peel
the liner back to re-work the hole. Right now, I have a pipe on one end

and
on one side, so I can only peek it back so far.
...bury my plumbing much deeper and have it enter from the bottom of the
pond, so I could then have it go as high as I want, or keep it low.
...be careful not to contaminate my water with the surrounding clay as I
worked around the lined hole.
...spend more time working wrinkles, folds, etc. out of my liner.
...consider how hard it will be to work on the pond, with a 1/3 of it is
under a bunch of pine trees.
...I'd create more shelves at different depths, and make them totally flat
instead of angled slightly towards the bottom drain. This would give me

more
choices in plant placement, and make maintenance much easier.

Care to add to the list?


And much, much bigger......

~Wilson~


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Old July 18th 03, 05:27 PM
John Hines
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"BenignVanilla" wrote:

Care to add to the list?


More truckloads of clay out, a couple of topsoil in?
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Old July 18th 03, 08:31 PM
john rutz
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BenignVanilla wrote:
I'd...

...have all of my plumbing enter the VF at the same location so I could peel
the liner back to re-work the hole. Right now, I have a pipe on one end and
on one side, so I can only peek it back so far.
...bury my plumbing much deeper and have it enter from the bottom of the
pond, so I could then have it go as high as I want, or keep it low.
...be careful not to contaminate my water with the surrounding clay as I
worked around the lined hole.
...spend more time working wrinkles, folds, etc. out of my liner.
...consider how hard it will be to work on the pond, with a 1/3 of it is
under a bunch of pine trees.
...I'd create more shelves at different depths, and make them totally flat
instead of angled slightly towards the bottom drain. This would give me more
choices in plant placement, and make maintenance much easier.

Care to add to the list?

--
BenignVanilla
Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond


use a level to check the bottom of the pond and make sure everything is at the level- slope you want and no

unexpected humps found after the liner is in place funny how dirt can
look level but the liner doesnt


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Old July 19th 03, 07:59 AM
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Good one!

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"John Hines" wrote in message
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"BenignVanilla" wrote:

Care to add to the list?


More truckloads of clay out, a couple of topsoil in?



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Old July 22nd 03, 08:43 PM
ann in houston
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John Hines wrote in message . ..
"BenignVanilla" wrote:

Care to add to the list?


More truckloads of clay out, a couple of topsoil in?


have a better understanding or how the bottom drain was supposed to go
in, so as not to waste the expensive sucker. Put more effort into
figuring out how to have a skimmer on an above ground installation.
Ann
 




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