Look'n good! Your moving along fast, you're going to surpass me soon, I'm 11 blocks shy of finishing my 6th course. Can't wait to see it finished!
Cheryl
Look'n good! Your moving along fast, you're going to surpass me soon, I'm 11 blocks shy of finishing my 6th course. Can't wait to see it finished!
Cheryl
Well today school was canceled for me due to the 8-10 inches of snow that fell last night and continued to fall today. Me being the crazy person that I am thought that this was a perfect opportunity to get a couple more block laid. So I put on my snow gear and headed out to cover the pond.
It took a little while but eventually I managed to get it all covered.
With some help from my dad I was able to get about 20 block laid today. That completed the fourth row and is about half way through the fifth.
Also last week I ordered a pump, skimmer, air pump, bottom drain, and TPR's and they all got safely delivered. I am so excited to start putting some of them in! Only 4 rows of block left to go
This weekend is my last weekend of soccer so significant progress should be made in the next few weeks.
In preparation for this we picked up 110 more block. That means that we only need to get 40 more!
Also all the of the other stuff that I ordered has come in!
I can't wait to get all of these in and see how they work
Tomorrow I am going to go pick up my liner and a bunch of other things that I need to finish the pond.
I almost forgot that I got some of my insulation as well.
It is a used foam insulation that has a 1/2 inch of concrete board adhered to it. I am going to line the outside of the block with this. I am also going to put 1/2 inch rigid insulation on the inside of the block.
Well last weekend we got all of the blocks set! Now we are working on putting on insulation (inside and outside the block) back-filling, and plumbing. This weekend will be our pluming weekend and I hope to get it all done and get it all back-filled. We still need to fill cells with concrete and concrete the bottom drain in. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and I can get a lot done this weekend! I will post some more pictures as I go
I am starting work on my pluming and I was wondering how to install a skimmer in a block wall. I am sure there are some threads out there that I cannot find. Some advice will be much appreciated.
I ended up not putting my skimmers in the location drawn, but many contributed a lot of great info
in this thread that might help:
https://www.koiphen.com/forums/showth...all-block-pond
Thank you Icu2 for the help on how to install the skimmer! That was exactly what I was looking for
I got a lot done this weekend. I got what I think will be the hard part of the plumbing done (that is pluming in the bottom drain and skimmer).
Also I got the skimmer and bottom drain set!
Last I got some more insulation put up.
I apologize for the poor quality of the photos. The lens on my phone has gotten dirty from playing in my pond all day
That is the skimmer half way through pouring concrete around it. We decided to clamp it to the front frame, fill around it with concrete about half way, let that set up a little bit and then remove the clamps and fill it the rest of the way.
I think it turned out pretty well!
I did forget one thing... I completely space that I am going to put half inch insulation on the inside of the block
The skimmer is set flush to the block. I should be able to cut the insulation back and slope it towards the skimmer and run the EPDM over it right? I will have to deal with that when I get to putting in the liner.
Like a said earlier, bottom drain plumed and concreted in!
Last is the insulation on the out side of the block. This is my least favorite thing to do so I keep putting it off... Despite this it is getting done little bits at a time
I still have quite a bit of insulation to put up. I hope to do a lot of it during the coming week!
I would really like to put the liner in next weekend but we'll see if that will happen
Hi WYOkoi, Ive been following your thread and I must say it looks great. I wanted to ask you if you were using 8 or 6 inch blocks for your build?
by the looks in the pic. above 8" blocksHi WYOkoi, Ive been following your thread and I must say it looks great. I wanted to ask you if you were using 8 or 6 inch blocks for your build?
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DaKid Koi is correct. They are 8" block
Well now that cross country season is over and I get to come home after school I have been able to make some progress on the pond during the week
Its not as much as I wish I could get done but I have to do my homework sometime haha.
Either way... this week I have put down "underlayment" (landscaping fabric) on the bottom of the pond and tonight I finished installing the insulation on the inside of the the block
All the stuff on the bottom is to keep the landscaping fabric from blowing away.
If I can rounded up a couple of my friends I hope to put my liner in Thursday! That means I could start adding water by the weekend!!!!!!!!
I almost forgot, we got all of the cells we plan on filling filled!
Once we got finished laying block it feels like things have been moving sooooo much fast.
This weekend we gotten quite a bit done. First of all we almost finished backfilling.
Second we have all the pluming that is going to be buried done.
Lastly, we got the liner in
we started to add a little water to help pull the liner down.
I have a few questions that have me stumped.
1. do I need to glue the standpipe of the bottom drain to the bottom of the diffuser?
2. all of the tape that we got to tape the corners of the liner was unknowingly double sided. I was wondering if this tape would work and if it was fish safe?
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How exciting!
Cheryl
The post to the diffuser on the bottom drain, I believe you need to measure from a threaded all the way down to the liner and then decide how much needs to be cut off to get to an opening of 3/4". Once cut off, then it can be glued to keep it from popping off, and threaded back down, giving you an appropriate clearance around the edge of the top/diffuser.
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Well we got it done just in time. last weekend was spend putting on the winter cover for the pond, and thank goodness we didn't put it off any longer.
Since Monday we have not been above freezing and today is the first day that we have been in double digit temperatures. The cover was put right to
the test, after we finished we had 60+ mph winds . But even after that it stayed together. (I was kinda surprised)
The following day we got about 5 inches of snow. I was less concerned about this than the wind because I could always go and brush the snow off it I
thought it was going to break something. In the end it all held together like a dream! Here are a couple of pictures of it today.
This cover was constructed out of 3/4" metal electrical conduit covered by 6 mls plastic. We drove rebar into the ground and slid the conduit over it to
hold it upright and in place. there are 6 braces in all (Which is less than I would have liked but we were working with limited materials and time. Despite
this it has worked like a dream. today it is about 22 outside and inside that cover it is about 60. The water temperature is about 40 and the fish seem
very happy not to be covered by ice
I will need to plumb all the filtration in the spring but until then the pond it done!
I noticed the same thing Richtoybox did. You didn't cut the standpipe for the bottom drain dome in that picture you posted. It definitely needs to be cut down as Rich suggested, to allow a 3/4" gap between the dome and the pond floor. And, yes, once you measure for this, then glue to pipe directly into the dome and thread the other end into the base.
Mike
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WOW. And here I thought the winters in Maryland were a ***** well,... Last year certainly was.
Nice work and congratulations! look forward to seeing the finished product!
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