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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    nice one mate. love a pond build. keep them photos coming
    Certainly will, big day tomorrow with the mini-digger and a couple of work colleagues coming to help (One drive the digger and one to help me do the labouring, I know I will ache by the end of the weekend !!

    Yesterday was a long day, my Fitbit recorded 24,898 steps - though one of them was on my arse in the pond, god that was slippery in my crocks

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    Looks like you are making steady progress though. It's amazing how many fish you find when you drain your pond

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    You've made a cracking start! Keep us updated And so it begins - Going down and building up :)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frimley Koi keeper View Post
    Looks like you are making steady progress though. It's amazing how many fish you find when you drain your pond
    Isn't it just - Koi & Odds were counted at 32 no. so 122 fish in total , plus Frogs

    Quote Originally Posted by jayjt29 View Post
    You've made a cracking start! Keep us updated And so it begins - Going down and building up :)
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    Thanks... and yes will do, I will certainly be asking for lots of guidance and suggestions

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    Well the big day today with the big dig, I am rather hungry so just going to post up a couple of pics and put more on tomorrow...

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    Try again with the photos !!









    Ruight that will do... more in the morning... Vodka time mmmmmmm

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    Good progress there

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    Looking good & a nice size too
    1kGal BD/Skim RDF/UV/k1 2.3kGal 2windows 2airBD/skim Sieve/Eazypod RDFcombi+bakki 3xVP/UV,ASHP

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    Thank you @Frimley and @ Mike

    I had a busy day on it on my own today, mainly manual labour, I moved/wheelbarrowed circa 5 tonne of soil thats was placed on some boards, into the end garden where we have decided to create a play area for our grandson... I needed it out of the way too to get material into the 'hole'







    I have been lucky to have a good solid base to work from, I got my levels sorted and due to a small miscalculation in type-1 I blinded some ballast over some low spots, only took one bulk bag and did the job well...


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    I then finally had something more interesting to do, well okay just the the bottom drains levelled up and concreted under to have them in the right place - Bloody pipe did not turn up on Friday so not able to install today as planned




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    I then managed to get the second bulk bag of typye-1 granite barrowed in and roughly levelled, quick tidy up and done on the thge new pond for the day, as I had tests to do on the temp pool to see how it has settled down...

    I put the bottom drains only circa 10mm lower than the corners, so not the greatest of falls but a little bit... (excuse wonky photo,
    hard to do on own hahaha



    Anyway, levelled up to a fashion and ready to hopefully weld the pipes tomorrow...





    As you can see I have planned (hope) to install the bio and drum off centre to the left, so electrics and air in the middle and skimmer and Nexus to the right Well that is my current thoughts.



    Well that was it for today, with a Fitbit step count of 31,147 steps and I am ker-nackered , and arms feel 6" longer!!

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    Great start mate. A lot done there lol.
    I like that 1st photo with little lad. Looking out. Wanting to play with the digger. Haha
    Love it.
    How many gallons lol. Looks a good size.
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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    Great start mate. A lot done there lol.
    I like that 1st photo with little lad. Looking out. Wanting to play with the digger. Haha
    Love it.
    How many gallons lol. Looks a good size.
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    I know what you mean ....my grandson wanted to take the “excavator“ home with him
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    Bloody hell someone's been busy

    Looking good

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    I then managed to get the second bulk bag of typye-1 granite barrowed in and roughly levelled, quick tidy up and done on the thge new pond for the day, as I had tests to do on the temp pool to see how it has settled down...

    I put the bottom drains only circa 10mm lower than the corners, so not the greatest of falls but a little bit... (excuse wonky photo,
    hard to do on own hahaha



    Anyway, levelled up to a fashion and ready to hopefully weld the pipes tomorrow...





    As you can see I have planned (hope) to install the bio and drum off centre to the left, so electrics and air in the middle and skimmer and Nexus to the right Well that is my current thoughts.



    Well that was it for today, with a Fitbit step count of 31,147 steps and I am ker-nackered , and arms feel 6" longer!!
    Nice work

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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    Great start mate. A lot done there lol.
    I like that 1st photo with little lad. Looking out. Wanting to play with the digger. Haha
    Love it.
    How many gallons lol. Looks a good size.
    Fred

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    Thanks Fred, yes I loved that one too, that is my grandson, damn he LOVES diggers and big holes

    The internal size I have planned to so far is 6,000 gallons

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Bass View Post
    I know what you mean ....my grandson wanted to take the “excavator“ home with him
    hahahaa I bet he did, ours got to sit in it and have a bit of a play with the levers, priceless moments

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frimley Koi keeper View Post
    Bloody hell someone's been busy

    Looking good
    Yup, always busy - Thanks Frimley

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graeme View Post
    Nice work

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    Cheers Graham

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    Well it has been a tad manic at work as usual, but I am trying to set myself a couple of hours each evening doing a bit of something on the pond.... so tonight I managed to get in the garden for 5:30 which was good, I had been out most of the day and real pleased when I got in to see the delivery of pipework at last...





    Soooooo I decided to try and set out the bottom drain pipework

    I started with the end uprights that will feed to the Draco Drum.


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