It's My Prerogative

No we're not talking about an 80's song by Bobby Brown, we're talking about changing our pond design yet again!

Last weekend we finally had a break in the weather where it wasn't snowing, it wasn't raining (too much anyway) or that is wasn't too cold so that your fingers stuck to the metal tape measure. The idea for the excursion into the garden and to the old pond was to start taking the appropriate measurements for calculating amounts of concrete for the new pond base, numbers of blocks required for the walls, etc. It was during this process that the divine inspiration occurred ..........

To cut a long story and many thoughts short, we've decided to go with a rectangular built pond with the header pond built on the left of the main pond. The main pond will be 3 metres wide by 4.5 metres long with a depth (hopefully) of 1.5 metres. This would give us a volume of 4,455 gallons. The header tank would be 0.9 metres wide by 1.2 metres long with a depth of 0.6 metres, therefore giving a header pond volume of 142.6 gallons. Therefore the pond volume, excluding filter and vortex units would be 4,597.6 gallons maximum. I say maximum because i'm still not convinced we'll be able to attain sufficient depth to incorporate the hardcore base and concrete to leave us with enough depth for the water without having to build above ground higher. Which is what we want to avoid.

Not only is it easier to calculate the volume of water a lot easier, it also means the other calculations such as for the concrete base, concrete block, etc considerably easier. Not to mention getting quotes for fibreglassing. Yes that's another decision made (or changed). We've definitely decided to have fibreglass the new pond! So we're now in the process of phoning around and getting quotes to see what outlay we're looking at.