Building a pond – Use Pond Plants to Enhance the Beauty of your Pond

If you already have a pond or are thinking of making one in your garden there are many a pond kit available to help make your job a lot easier. You can choose from pond liners, pond pumps, pond fountains, pond waterfalls, pond filters, pond lights, pond plants and just about any kind of pond [...]

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Building a pond – Pondless Waterfalls: Concrete Vs. Pond Liner

The get-rich-quick factor in the pond liner industry has forced up the price of pond liner kits to equal the cost of concrete construction. If you search for the truth about concrete ponds and waterfalls from reading the literature of the greed-driven liner pond industry, you will not find it. Why? Because [...]

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Building a pond – Building water ponds and protecting it with the pond liners

Are you planning to build a water pond at the backyard of your house? Building a pond can be a very easy and fun job if you know the correct procedures. The first thing to do while planning to build a pond is to determine the location of the pond. It is important to choose [...]

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Building a pond – Pond Liners: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Use Them

1. Liners will eventually leak. Manufacturers have varying warranties, ranging from 15 to 30 years, with a 75-year life expectancy. In reality, it will definitely last as long as the guarantee claims as long as you leave it in the box, and store it in your garage.
Once you place it [...]

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Building a pond – Pond Liner: Buyer Beware

Do you waste your money on lottery tickets? Feed your hard earned money to the one-armed bandits in the casinos? Drive without a seat belt? Then a pond liner is for you. You obviously like taking chances and are not too concerned about the outcome. Well, when someone spends thousands of dollars on a [...]

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Building a pond – Koi Pond: Finding a Contractor – 18 Important Things to Know

Because there is such a wide range of information to be learned on this topic of koi pond and waterfall construction and so much technical information out there, you may decide to seek professional assistance to complete part or all of the water features. Before you proceed, here are 18 extremely important facts you [...]

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Building a pond – Koi Pond: Liners Vs. Professional Construction

Why is there so much talk about pond liners? Which ones are UV protected, or stronger, or last longer? I am by no means an expert on liner technology, nor have I ever used them in my 26 years of designing and building waterfalls. If you’re a “liner guy” disciple, I’m sure [...]

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