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Pond is approximately 14' across at it's widest point, is 36" deep with a shelf wrapping around 3/4 of the diameter. The pump is installed in a skimmer box and I also added a floor drain. The waterfall weir is a 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank that I plumbed myself. We added a nice variety of bog plants. The waterfall is about 25 feet from top to pond. We added all landscaping plants except for the dogwood tree and the hollies that are planted around the dogwood. I'll be sure to add more pics once the pond clears up. The client has requested that I add a few koi.

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Nice. I was going to ask whether the ponds you build were cement or liner base, then I saw some liner peeking through. lol.
 
do u have any set-up photos?
how much was the pond-liner?
 
If you could take step by step photos of one of your projects and post pics it would be invaulable to people trying to get a grasp on the subtleties they might forget and stimulate some new ideas. You produce great pond scenes. I am interested in the hidden plumbing as much as anything. Do your clients purchase all of the ornamental stone? How much does this project cost in materials?
 
gunther said:
If you could take step by step photos of one of your projects and post pics it would be invaulable to people trying to get a grasp on the subtleties they might forget and stimulate some new ideas. You produce great pond scenes. I am interested in the hidden plumbing as much as anything. Do your clients purchase all of the ornamental stone? How much does this project cost in materials?
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To be honest, the last thing I am usually thinking about while building a pond is taking pictures. I have a few before/after shots of some projects and I have one pond that I took some during shots.

As for plumbing, there really isn't a whole lot to a pond like this. There is the bottom drain that runs through the bottom of the liner at the deepest point, straight over to the lowest spot on the face of the skimmer box. Then there is the line going from the skimmer to the weir and, in the case of this pond, the bulkheads on the weir to create the spillway for the waterfall. I build all of the bulkheads in the projects myself instead of buying the ultra expensive primo pond manufacturing company bulkheads. Then there is the auto-fill kit and that is basically it for the plumbing. My client had an electrician come out and put a GFI outlet in. I dug the trench, he ran the conduit and conductor. I installed low voltage lighting in and around the pond also.

As for the stone, I haul all of that for the client. My project bid process involves me asking the client a lot of questions about how they want the final product to look. I select the rock based on the look that the client is going for and the sound they want in the waterfall. In the case of the pond in the pictures, I utilized river rock and Western Pennsylvania sandstone from a local quarry. I hand pick all of the boulders that go into one of my projects and I load it and often unload it by hand depending on whether or not I can use a machine without destroying their yard.

The total *retail* material cost for this project was about $2,400
This includes everything:
Liner
Skimmer
Floor Drain
Stock Tank (weir)
Tsurumi Pump
All Plumbing
Auto-Fill Kit
Rocks and gravel
Landscape Supplies (plants, mulch, etc...)
Pond Plants
Low Voltage Lighting

That does NOT include labor and delivery charges.

Hope this answers your questions...

BTW, *thank you* for the kind words, I appreciate it.
 
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