Ok, so I'm new to this site (looking forward to sharing experience with all of you) and I figured I'd open with my current project, which I am about half way through. Long story short, My wife and I recently purchased our first home, about which I am very excited, for many reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that after years of not being able to do any projects larger than minor repairs, I finally get to have some fun. I decided that I wanted my first project to be a pond, but there's a catch. My wife and I will be having our second child in June, and we were both concerned about safety, so she told me I could make any pond, as long as the baby couldn't find her way into it. Because of this, I decided on a box pond, but I decided to make it a little more interesting than four walls and a liner, here was my original design:
I dubbed it "The Bog Box," because it has what is essentially a shorter, longer, and narrower box pond being fed by a spillway waterfall from the top box, which will be filled by a pump. I was very excited, and in the 5 day window over Easter in which we visited my parents (We currently live 500 miles away from the house) I managed to finish the wood construction with the support of my VERY understanding wife. Here is the progression of photos:
The main support frame of the boxes consist of Pressure Treated 4x4s, and I used "appearance grade" 1x6s to plank the inside walls, and to construct the random stairway waterfall. The final dimensions for the Pond are:
Main Box ---------- Bog
2'8'' high ------ 1'8'' high
5' wide ------ 1' wide
8' long ------ 10' long
Painted, it looks like this (I'd like you to imagine all the unstained portions as black pond liner, if you please)
When finished, I plan to hold the liner down on top by finding paver stones that match the patio. By my calculations, the total pond volume should come out to about 1000 gallons. Ok, so now that everyone here is up to speed (Please ask any questions to info I forgot to add) I'd like to open with my questions about the next step. My question is, could I line this entire pond with one, solid liner, by cutting an L shape off the corner, like this:
I was thinking, if I got a large enough liner (giving myself lots of room for error, as I always seem to use whatever room I givemyself for it, haha) I could probably pull off the waterproofing with one, single liner. So, is it doable? Any lent expertise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I dubbed it "The Bog Box," because it has what is essentially a shorter, longer, and narrower box pond being fed by a spillway waterfall from the top box, which will be filled by a pump. I was very excited, and in the 5 day window over Easter in which we visited my parents (We currently live 500 miles away from the house) I managed to finish the wood construction with the support of my VERY understanding wife. Here is the progression of photos:
The main support frame of the boxes consist of Pressure Treated 4x4s, and I used "appearance grade" 1x6s to plank the inside walls, and to construct the random stairway waterfall. The final dimensions for the Pond are:
Main Box ---------- Bog
2'8'' high ------ 1'8'' high
5' wide ------ 1' wide
8' long ------ 10' long
Painted, it looks like this (I'd like you to imagine all the unstained portions as black pond liner, if you please)
When finished, I plan to hold the liner down on top by finding paver stones that match the patio. By my calculations, the total pond volume should come out to about 1000 gallons. Ok, so now that everyone here is up to speed (Please ask any questions to info I forgot to add) I'd like to open with my questions about the next step. My question is, could I line this entire pond with one, solid liner, by cutting an L shape off the corner, like this:
I was thinking, if I got a large enough liner (giving myself lots of room for error, as I always seem to use whatever room I givemyself for it, haha) I could probably pull off the waterproofing with one, single liner. So, is it doable? Any lent expertise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
