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    Quote Originally Posted by davethefish1 View Post
    appalling! yes...but who to be mad at...
    it's all the EU's fault...petty vindictive beauracrats!
    1,2,3,4 I declare a trade war!

    it's still the design of shower and size i want...I won't cut off my nose to spite my face
    plus i'm too far down the line to start looking elsewhere and waiting on a custom order again...
    Good point mate, the EU sure seems to be trying their hardest to prove to the UK that it would have been better to stay, when to me they are making it more obvious why it was better to leave

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    Good point mate, the EU sure seems to be trying their hardest to prove to the UK that it would have been better to stay, when to me they are making it more obvious why it was better to leave
    Too true...
    I was actually hoping for a hard brexit.
    The EU beauracrats are not representative of the whole of europe.
    Only the french and german governments.
    Most benefit from trade with us.

    Once they'd have lost that and the fisheries that supply half of europe.
    They would be more reasonable at the bargaining table...

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    It's coming home,
    It's coming home,
    It's coming,
    the Shower is coming home...

    well it is home now...Finally!



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    What's it doing in the front mate get it plumbed in man lol . Bet it's a weight off ya shoulders now it's here tho .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ajm View Post
    What's it doing in the front mate get it plumbed in man lol . Bet it's a weight off ya shoulders now it's here tho .

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    starting on the stand tomorrow
    had to move my dechorinator pods today as they're in the way, to make way for the 20mm MDPE.
    had a trip to two screwfix's both for a 20mm x 1/2" wall plate elbow both times shown in stock, and ordered for collection....
    both times given a 25mm x 3/4" one...and they had no 20mm x 1/2" in stock...

    but yes mate, a big relief it's finally here.
    thought i was going to have to bodge a watertank for a filter until it turned up

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    Ahhhhh excellent Dave, that looks the business for sure, well worth the wait ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    Ahhhhh excellent Dave, that looks the business for sure, well worth the wait ??
    yes mate, the cost is similar to smaller polypropylene showers you can buy over here. but it holds double the volume of shower media.
    the build quality is also much better, with folded welds and chamfered and welded seams, giving you neat corners, and a weld thicker than the sheet material.










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    Coming along great Dave, and all looking the dogs dangles mate.
    Love the finish on the painted pond, and that is a fair size shower to, well worth the wait.
    I'm looking forward to seeing the liner going in. Keep up the good work.

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    I did think it looked a bit of a monster mate so good job the welds are so good, how much media do you need for it ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve's koi View Post
    Coming along great Dave, and all looking the dogs dangles mate.
    Love the finish on the painted pond, and that is a fair size shower to, well worth the wait.
    I'm looking forward to seeing the liner going in. Keep up the good work.
    cheers,
    me too,
    i want to get it to stage where the fish can go back in, you can't swing a cat on our patio lol!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    I did think it looked a bit of a monster mate so good job the welds are so good, how much media do you need for it ??
    it'll hold 11 boxes of CSM, i've got 6 boxes static in the existing/temporary filters that will go in the shower,
    and another 4 boxes to go in. 10 boxes in all about 100kgs...

    i'm going to run it on a shower only and see how i get on,
    though might add an extra bio/filter section in the future....

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    hopfully i've hand mixed my last bucket of flippin concrete now.
    as i've had to build a duct to hold the brackets that will carry the pipes from the filter house to the pond.

    dug and poured concrete for the footings this week, then laid a course of concrete blocks flat to lift it out of the ground.
    i added a layer of sleepers that i had left over, drilled and fixed to the base with concrete screws.
    then i used all the leftover bits of timber from the old pond, and the building of this one, to make the duct to carry the 4" and 2" pressure pipe returns, plus the 4" skimmer to the drum.

    when the ponds up and running
    it will be clad and insulated with 50mm celotex and fibreglass insulation before the cold weather sets in....








    Last edited by davethefish1; 23-07-2021 at 09:25 PM.

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    Love this build mate detail is amazing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ajm View Post
    Love this build mate detail is amazing

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    Feels less like detail, and more like 1001 problems solutions and compromises lol!

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    Have to agree here, a great one to follow Dave, many people can learn stuff from your build DTF's New Pond

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    Have to agree here, a great one to follow Dave, many people can learn stuff from your build DTF's New Pond

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    thanks mate,
    and it works both ways....
    i've learnt or pinched ideas from other peoples builds as much myself.

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    The forum at its best mate DTF's New Pond

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    a few more pieces of the jigsaw...

    the spigot outlets are on the bottom of the shower,
    but a small issue i have with that is that the CSM media will partially block the outlets,
    and could potentially trap a small amount of dirt around the media sitting on the bottom, as there is no media grid for the bottom section.

    soooo, i decided to make one with some filter grids i had left over from the first pond build.
    i could weld some polypropylene strips to the edge but decided on the easier option of upstands made from the cut edge of the filter grid
    i'll weld them to the filter grid so they don't move around when stacking the media in.

    also as i'm only using one 4" outlet as i have a good drop and will only ever run at up to 20,000lph of the 40,000lph maximum
    capped the other one off with a 4" flexi and a polypropylene bung on the inside that i'll silicone in to prevent dirt getting trapped in the spigot.

    Last edited by davethefish1; 25-07-2021 at 10:38 PM.

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    Also clad the back of the duct with hardiebacker board and used some old 50mm insulation from the last pond to insulate the back part.

    and piped up the new MDPE mains into the filter house ready for the big blue to be connected to.






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    and last but not least,
    also made the stand for the shower and put the shower in ready for piping up...
    if i keep on like this i'll end up with a pond one day lol!


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