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    What would you cover pond equipment with to protect it?

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    I've built a house in my garden so everything needs turning around through 180 degrees. As part of the build I had a new pond built on the edge of the new patio, this was to claim my VAT back on the construction (VAT is zero rated on new house builds). This pond replaces one which is now at the bottom of my new garden and I hope the new pond will benefit from features which I didn't incorporate in the old one 20 years ago. The new pond construction is complete and the filter is sited but there's nothing else installed yet apart from the drains. I have some equipment for the new pond, a new pump and a UV, I need to buy an air pump and a set of isolation switches at the very least.

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    Thinking about this pond equipment, how do you protect it from the elements without building a shed to house it?
    In my head I see an ABS or fiberglass box, like the ones you see on the back of a camper van, hinged lid, stuff inside, is this thinking going in the correct direction?
    What is it mounted on? How are the pipes entering? How do you see it, what would or have you done?
    Don’t worry about aesthetics, in can be near the filter which isn’t very pretty and next to the air source heat pump which is dam ugly!

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    what ever you do it will be impossible to hide.
    so my thoughts are build a purpose built shed and make it nice,
    depending on the nature of the garden make like a wendy house or a japanese tea house.
    but make it pleasing to the eye. none of the workings of a pond look nice so hide the in it and behind somthing that does.
    that my thoughts

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    If you want a filter enclosure not made of wood so getting rotten and painting/replace every few years then I would just build it out of concrete blocks and render it and give it an EDPM roof. This way you have a proper weather roof enclosure to house your electrics in. If it's high enough to walk into then you can do filter maintenance and cleaning in a nice dry electrically lit room rather than in the pouring rain in a dark garden in winter.

    The single biggest mistake I made on a previous pond build was having the filters outdoors and needing to dress them in central heating jackets. Many people had their ddchlorinator units burst in the really cold weather last year. If they are inside a filter house and the pond is heated this definitely won't happen.

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    Last year both my Easypod and RotoShower froze solid for 2 days on my temporary setup. They were up on bricks and exposed to the elements but I was still surprised to see the pod frozen solid...

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    You can buy a storage unit thing that is a bit like a cross between a shed and a storage box - made of plastic. I would have thought though you would be better off building a shed that incorporated the filter. I built mine out of wooden posts and polycarbonate triple wall sheets.

    It is supprising how much clutter you end up with associated with your pond it's good to have somewhere to store it all. Plus cleaning out or performing some maintenance on a filter in the middle of winter is much nicer under cover than out in the open.
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    What would you cover pond equipment with to protect it?

    Kettler do good outdoor storage boxes and get hold of some insulation blanket like the silver foil stuff they wrap you up in when you’ve had a car crash (been wrapped up a few times and it’s lovely What would you cover pond equipment with to protect it?)


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