DIY Pond liners?

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joshua27

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I just stumbled upon this site and have little time to search so I became a member and have a question. This should be right up some of your alleys so I hope you all can help.

I am trying to figure this out for a close friend in Haiti who is trying to restore their mountain concrete pond. It was built back in the early 60s and the quake damaged it. Last time I was there we tried a crete plaster mix job but it didn't work for a number of reasons. I looked into buying a pond liner online but it would be thousands of dollars it seems which isn't feasible for the people at this time.

Are there any proven DIY pond liners? Simplest thing I could think of was heavy plastic with a duct-tape seam. Then make another and layer it possibly with a medium in-between. This thing is pretty darn big to be honest though; 6.5 feet from bottom to top lip and 30 feet across at its widest point. it has inwared bowing walls but is roughy a circle in shape.

ANY ideas or direction at all would be greatly appreciated we are open to most anything at this point.

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You need to do it right that much water will never be held with a half done job.

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After thinking about it and having used a pond liner with my own pond. If you cheap out you'll regret it and will be doing it again. If you look at it that way a pond liner doesn't cost that much.


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THe ground that the about ground pond sits on is at the top of a mountain where coves are found a few hundred feet away on its face. My only fear is that the water leaking out of it had flushed out some ground under the tank and if the tank ever reached full capacity again it could possibly break at the bottom and send the water under the pond where it MIGHT be already washed out. Thats why I was trying to see if there was something temporary to see if It would hold water at full capacity and have no issues. THen the call would be made to upgrade to a true liner that is made for the size. Spending 1000 dollars to Haitian's just to see it not work is not good when that money could be put elsewhere.
 
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