Incoming 2-3k pond project in my crawl space!!

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wednesday13 said:
U could run an overhead sump upstairs for easy matinence :)

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Would be nice and connext my other pond to it also but no drilling the floors lol

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MyGiants said:
Have you talked to the owner about this idea. I thought the pond under the mattress was nuts but a pond under the house crawl space is taking it up a notch. I'm going to subscribe to this I want to see how this comes together..
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Not this particular bud no, but when i did the other pond she said i can do whatever i want with my fish and tanks so long as i dont destroy the place and fix or pay for any damages. She is pretty lenient. Even let me remodel the closets and the bathroom soon also.

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From the picture it looks like you would have some serious excavation to do what you're planning which made me think of something else.... I would do a test hole first to see how far down your footer supports go. Digging down past the footer support seems like it would be very risky.
 
MyGiants said:
Have you talked to the owner about this idea. I thought the pond under the mattress was nuts but a pond under the house crawl space is taking it up a notch. I'm going to subscribe to this I want to see how this comes together..
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necrocanis said:
Would be nice and connext my other pond to it also but no drilling the floors lol

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Ahhh thats a bummer...i bet u could sneak some in through the walls maybe lol :)

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Basically from what I was looking at just now the spots are just uneven. Some are lower and some are higher. I would just be evening them out, but besides that I think I have a good solution. The deepest I would be digging would just be scraping a few bumps of dirt off the top to fill in the dips. I may not do that at all though. My thinking is since overall the ground is the same level with just some dips and bumps I will probably go with my original plan of just driving some re-bar into the ground and drilling the wood to fit over it giving it some backbone from the re-bar going through the wood every 3' or so. So I would just slip the wood over the re-bar. Easy peasy. lol. Then once everything is in place whatever gaps there are I will put sandbags so that the liner doesn't slip out the gaps. A small pile on each gap. This way I don't have to fill a ton of sand bags either. I will leave everything pretty much untouched except of course driving in the re-bar. It will all be very easy to remove though. Relatively.

spiff44 said:
From the picture it looks like you would have some serious excavation to do what you're planning which made me think of something else.... I would do a test hole first to see how far down your footer supports go. Digging down past the footer support seems like it would be very risky.
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wednesday13 said:
Ahhh thats a bummer...i bet u could sneak some in through the walls maybe lol :)

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lol you'd like to see that huh. haha.
 
another thing is that I will be reducing the size slightly to keep it a little farther away from the wall and the furnace. So new dimensions should be 14' x 7' x 2'. Puts this just at 1500 gals. Little more manageable. :) bottom will just be the liner in contact with the floor. The sides will have styro boards, and the lid will be insulated but super light with my new design. :) Cant wait to get this underway.
 
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