waterfall tips

Hi there!

We installed a medium-sized pond in our garden last autumn, and are about to work on adding a waterfall feature, running into the pond rom the rockery area behind it - trying to get it a s natural as possible. This will end up being about 3 metres long, and rising by about 1 meter or so.

Any tips about how to actually create the bed of the 'stream'? We were thinking of lining it initially with butyl, but then creating a skin of concrete with natural stone set into it (we've loads of that dug up out of the garden!). What do you think?

Anthony

 

Hi Anthony:thumb:
I have a waterfall exactly like that,and I used 3x2"ish timber to create a channel and lined it with pond liner. Stones off the garden,no concrete, to line the bed and sides worked just great and has protected it from the sun for the last ten years. Plants are growing through it now and hide it from the kiddies we have here during the day

 

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[FONT=&quot]Do you have any spare soil from when you dug the pond? When I did mine, I used the spare rubble and soil to create the stream / waterfall[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I built up the sides of the stream and smoothed out the bottom, it’s important to make sure the pond liner has plenty of overlap with each consecutive section. If you can, try to do it in one piece. It’s safest to add plenty extra when you are buying your liner!

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[FONT=&quot]If you have to cut the liner, make sure you’ve got it positioned nicely first into the shape of the stream and use some test water to check for any problems. Always leave plenty of overlap for making adjustments as it ages, in case you find certain areas settle and form overflows and leaks.

Make sure you exagerrate your levels to give plenty of depth to each step and plenty of height at the sides. If you don't you will end up with it being too shallow by the time you have put stones and gravel into each step.

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Hartley Botanic, very sorry to tell you, I should say crofthouse is no longer interested. The post you replied to was made in June 2008, he hasn't posted since October 2008 (He also never replied to Paladin at the time, either)

 

Maybe he has become an MP and had a moat built at the tax payer’s expense.:D