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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Bass View Post
    yes that looks secure ( I wish I had done that to my 4” pipes)
    Well, I am glad I learnt from your mistake

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    Every little helps dbs And so it begins - Going down and building up :)And so it begins - Going down and building up :) how long do you think the build will take? Quicker than mine I hope And so it begins - Going down and building up :)
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    Nice one on making drains safe.
    And the testing off them lol. It's easy to forget that part. Someone's build this year
    Had a leak. Once the base was in. Nightmare to rectify.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    Well, I am glad I learnt from your mistake
    I am glad something good came of my mistake
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    although not too much movement it was enough that I have to rectify with a bit of tweaking
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    Quote Originally Posted by jayjt29 View Post
    Every little helps dbs And so it begins - Going down and building up :)And so it begins - Going down and building up :) how long do you think the build will take? Quicker than mine I hope And so it begins - Going down and building up :)
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    Well it would be hard to take longer than you Jay

    No real target other than quite keen to be done before the end of October, but will be pushing along as much as I can when I can, there will be weeks when little happens

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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    Nice one on making drains safe.
    And the testing off them lol. It's easy to forget that part. Someone's build this year
    Had a leak. Once the base was in. Nightmare to rectify.
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    Oh by Christ Fred yes I bet that would be a nightmare !! - how did they get over it ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Bass View Post
    I am glad something good came of my mistake
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    although not too much movement it was enough that I have to rectify with a bit of tweaking
    As long as you got over it mate, as we all make the odd mistake and get over problems, all part of the challenge hey !!

    Blimey, that is a tad wonky

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post

    Blimey, that is a tad wonky
    yep I think that one will need a curved rubber connector to the others straight connector Or i have seen the mild use of a heat gun can bend the pipe slightly, but I can put the ball valves in the uprights and adapt from there.

    I was so busy spreading the concrete on the hottest day of last year that I took my eye off the movement.
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    Quite a good day today, I managed to get a couple of guys over for a bit to help finish the base prep, we got more shingle around the pipework, levelled off a few low areas with sharp sand, ran over it with the whacker plate, then laid down some plastic and the mesh.







    This evening I have managed to start prep on getting new water pipe across the garden in a conduit (okay 50mm pipe) it is going to be a tight squeeze getting 2 no. 1" pipes down it, I may have to do one of them as a hosepipe still (which I had on my old pond)

    Oh, we also set up some temporary timber edgings to help us level the concrete out, and put more supports under the mesh (not in the photos)

    Fingers crossed some concrete to mix tomorrow... thats going to be a challenge

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    Oh by Christ Fred yes I bet that would be a nightmare !! - how did they get over it ??
    They had to dig it out lol. Then redo the base. It was only a few months ago. Patched it up. Not a full base relaid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    Quite a good day today, I managed to get a couple of guys over for a bit to help finish the base prep, we got more shingle around the pipework, levelled off a few low areas with sharp sand, ran over it with the whacker plate, then laid down some plastic and the mesh.







    This evening I have managed to start prep on getting new water pipe across the garden in a conduit (okay 50mm pipe) it is going to be a tight squeeze getting 2 no. 1" pipes down it, I may have to do one of them as a hosepipe still (which I had on my old pond)

    Oh, we also set up some temporary timber edgings to help us level the concrete out, and put more supports under the mesh (not in the photos)

    Fingers crossed some concrete to mix tomorrow... thats going to be a challenge
    Looking good mate. That's quite a bit of work done there.
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    What is the expected size of the pond when finished?

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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    They had to dig it out lol. Then redo the base. It was only a few months ago. Patched it up. Not a full base relaid.
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    OMG... poor fcukers, what a nightmare

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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    Looking good mate. That's quite a bit of work done there.
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    Thanks... yes was a good productive day, glad I had some help

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graeme View Post
    What is the expected size of the pond when finished?

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    The internal dimensions for the water are 6500 L x 2600 w x 1600 deep, well that is what is planned, I may make it a few mm taller or shorter.

    The dig and setout is for 770mm below ground and the Drako large bio is 830 required water level - so I may increase that once I start laying out the kit and juggle pipework

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    That is a big pond. I was going either 7 or 8 bricks high when I started but stopped at 7 plus a layer of engineering bricks to get the level I wanted for the filter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graeme View Post
    That is a big pond. I was going either 7 or 8 bricks high when I started but stopped at 7 plus a layer of engineering bricks to get the level I wanted for the filter.

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    Hopefully this is the pond that I don not wish I had gone bigger

    Yes same here height wise, I may go up or down a block depending on where the courses end up when I get out of the ground... time will tell

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    QUICK UPDATE

    Well, I was very lucky and managed to get a couple of labourers over yesterday, and wow they worked like trojans, they mixed 8 bulk bags of ballast and got the slab concreted in a day !!







    And here is how it was when I left it last night, I had given it a bit of a scrape over to get rid of any pour damage, as couldn't be avoided tipping a wheelbarrow from 4' up !!

    A bit dark by the time I left it but sooooo happy with it !!


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    Really looking forward to seeing this one finished.

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    Yea that’s looking good, no rain either so going well to date.
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