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29-09-2016, 10:37 PM #21
Cheers Kenny, I'll look up the Adfil needles. Appreciate the info.
Your pond looks amazing!!!! I hope the moderators approve your latest tome as I'd love to read it. The mirror is nice touch.
Just one question; I assume you used flat laid concrete blocks for your walls. If so, how did you lay them on a slope? Did you shutter steps into the poured base or lay them and backfill underneath each one to start off?
Keen to know how you dealt with the slope and block work as I'm about to start laying blocks and this conundrum came up last night...
Most people don't have this problem but us "slope hunters" do!
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29-09-2016, 11:33 PM #22
Gray,
Walls are mostly double facing brick with waterproof mortar, ordinary building bricks where I knew they would be hidden. The foundation for the brick was basically shuttered with a drop every so often, didn't actually measure heights just took a few guesses but the foundations are level. Make sure you have a good spirit level the longer the better. The first layer of brick (or blocks) is layed on the foundation across the way with a thicker or thinnner layer of mortar so that the tops of the first layer are all level. SInce they are bricks, to achieve the first level I laid some on their sides which is another inch of brick. If you cannot achieve level on your first layer make sure you can on your second they should all be below the ground anyway so that by the time you get above ground level everything is spot on level. Can't go wrong after that. Just take your time to build up the corners/ends and use a brickies line along the length of your row of bricks. If you can lay more than 300 bricks a day you are quicker than me!
The wall behind where the mirror is reaches a height of nine feet on the neighbours side since the ground falls away by about four feet from right to left and in building the pond I basically also levelled a lot of my garden. The spoil out of the hole (20 tons) is now on my garden. What I actually did was create the full height back wall (with the mirror) before I dug the majority of the pond from the side I take the photos. If you think of a wide bucket on the digger (OK maybe a bigger digger than in your photo) it is easy to get a rounded shape on the bottom pulling the spoil towards you. I am neither a brickie nor a digger driver so there may be better ways of doing stuff but I am very Handy.
I have attached a photo of the deep end to let you see some curves.
regards,
Kenny
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29-09-2016, 11:49 PM #23
Sloping pond base - anyone done one?
Cheers Kenny, spot on info. I'll get shuttering the slope base tomorrow afternoon so I can lay the first blocks next week.
Can't find those Adfil pins for sale. Amazon and eBay list the S300 ones but both sites are out of stock!
Do you know of anywhere to get the pins from besides them?
I'll take the 300-bricks-a-day as a challenge! Doubt I'll beat that but my pal's a house brickie and very, very competitive!!! This'll spur him on...
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30-09-2016, 12:45 AM #24
Gray,
Sorry I bought them from from there.
Kenny
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30-09-2016, 12:49 AM #25
Gray,
Just a thought. Sometimes you will get stuff from your local builders merchants that you will never see online. The Adfil Durus needles may be available there (although I doubt it) but they were used to rplaced stainless steel needles of about the same size which seem to be more comonly used. MAybe even your local cement delivery co may be able to source them.
Kenny
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