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    Anyone built a portable temporary pond from wood + liner?

    Hi All,
    Bit of advice needed - has anybody built a temporary portable pond? I'm moving house at the end of March, but will only be living at the new house for a few months until I find a permanent home - which will almost certainly need a pond building when I get there. So I need somewhere to keep my koi in the meantime - possibly for up to a year. I have 12 koi between 30 and 50cm, and although they're not show winners they mean a lot to me, and some would cost a few hundred to replace, so I want to be relatively confident that they'll be ok.
    Temporary house has a garage with power, and the next house I get will definitely have a garage too. So I'm thinking I need a temporary pond in the garage to keep them in.
    If I buy a pre-formed pond it's going to be expensive and a nightmare to try and move, so I'm thinking about building a wood framed temporary pond with a boxweld liner that could then be moved. Anyone done anything similar?
    I think I need 750 gallons, and my idea is to make a wooden frame lined with kingspan. Then I could run the pipework under the frame, fit a bottom drain etc but still be able to take it apart and move to the new house, and it'll be useful in future for a grow on tank or something.
    So if I made the liner dimensions 2400 x 1200 x 1200 deep it would give me over 750 gals.
    Anyone made anything similar? Any photos? Anyone know what size of timber I'd need for this?
    I'm thinking I could paint the timber red and try and make it look a bit Japanesey...
    Cheers,
    Matt



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    If it was me I would just purchase a sturdy temporary swimming pool, would be way cheaper than building a wooden pond and you’d get a bigger volume.

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    Swimming pool be better but I did make one out of 8ft posts frame osb board inside to help hold weight and fencing boards on the out side and capping it did the job but I had all timber going spare off a few landscaping jobs I had in ( timbers were level ground wasn't just had to be dumped for a quick temp )

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    A swimming pool won't give me the volume I need. I need it to fit in a garage and not take up all the space, which means it needs to be deep, and the paddling/swimming pools you can buy aren't deep enough. It also would need a frame building anyway to fit a bottom drain, although I guess I could buy a retro fit and make do with that.
    Matt

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    This would do the job and much cheaper


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    Sorry no advice Matt, but interested to hear any reply as I,m in same boat as you, hoping to either build something or buy a portable pond to put up in the new house until a more permanent pond can be built.

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    That pool is 2m wide - too big for the garage I think. I want something more permanent and better looking than that, and I'd need to build another frame anyway to fit bottom drain, have shower on etc.

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    Hi matt

    where you looking to buy a house in Lancashire ?
    I,ll be looking to sell ours in few months, with a ready built 4,000 gallon fibreglassed pond in the ground.

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    Somewhere between Manchester and Blackburn but I think we'll have more criteria than just "has a koi pond"! :-)
    Nobody got any ideas about what thickness timber I'd need to be using for a frame?
    Matt

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    I had something very similar to 14Crazychris post, was in the work shop attached to one of the garages for over 12 months, there was plenty of room spare, all depends if you have a modern shoe box garage with just enough room for a treadmill and the xmas decs or a older garage that can fit a car in and still have room to spare
    the slow pond build thread

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    why not look at a fibreglass tank try denby koi ponds they will make a bespoke one which you can always sell on afterwards

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    lol ok Matt good luck with the move.

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    Hi Mat,I would be looking at 4x2ins with 4ins being the thickness and rough timber is fine.
    John

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    I was thinking 3x2's but maybe 4x2s would be better. I'm thinking 2 in each corner in an L shape making a vertical post, then join the posts top and bottom with 8 more horizontal, then a couple of braces across the base to raise it high enough to have pipework underneath. Then maybe a plank round the base like a plinth for extra strength, and another round the top. Should be strong enough I'd have thought?
    Boxweld liners coming in at about Ł275 so I'd guess Ł120 for timber and then fitting on top. Shouldn't be too bad...
    I think I'll pay the extra for planed timber so it looks nice!
    Matt

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    Quote Originally Posted by 14crazychris View Post


    This would do the job and much cheaper


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    That's exactly what I used, well two of them when I changed my liner last year and I'm going to use this year when I add more bottom drains and fibreglass

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