I have a standard standing freezer and wanted to know if anyone has ever turned one of these into a pond. Most of the white plastic on the inside is a solid piece, maybe 4 little holes for the food racks. How would you close those up? Anyone do this and have pictures or a journal??
Freezer turned indoor pond?
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i would load them with silicone or that epoxy stuff for holding decor together. good idea, i dont think its been dont, cause not too many of us have a freezer sitting around.
if you did something like this i would recommend to fill all openings with great stuff foam and then silicone over the top to seal. including the vents that blow the cold air and stuff (water would leak from all of these with the standing freezer laying on its back) and then put a thick pond liner inside of the freezer for extra protection. it probably wouldnt hold water without the liner. but honestly before i put that much work into turning a freezer into a pond i would just build one with plywood. that way you would have more of a "pond" as opposed to a "ghetto fish tank"
is it gonna look anything, i'm not saying don't do it at all but it seems quite an unsightly thing to turn into a pretty small 'pond' for the effort.
Hrm. I happen to have a defunct freezer too. Around 30 cubic feet. Was originally going to turn it into a giant cigar humidor, but found another solution for those.
Think I'll be digging a hole in my back yard over the next couple weeks... Couple sunfish would be plenty happy in that, and once it's buried you wouldn't even know it was a freezer.
Think I'll be digging a hole in my back yard over the next couple weeks... Couple sunfish would be plenty happy in that, and once it's buried you wouldn't even know it was a freezer.
Buring its a good idea.
What I would do with a standing freezer is this:
Get 2 layers of really thick plastic and suspend it a few inches from the sides
Fill the remaining space with sand.
Then pull the plastic all around and build a wooden box around it.
Paint it or whatever.
I think that would be pretty easy and nice,
although theres a few steps I didn't mention
What I would do with a standing freezer is this:
Get 2 layers of really thick plastic and suspend it a few inches from the sides
Fill the remaining space with sand.
Then pull the plastic all around and build a wooden box around it.
Paint it or whatever.
I think that would be pretty easy and nice,
although theres a few steps I didn't mention
