Keeping character, or restoring a pond

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Anyone can tie rebar to rebar. Especially if one piece of rebar is in a rock wall and the other is in a rock rock.

 

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The awkward part is getting concrete around the rocks in their new location, hanging out over the pond to be.

So we formed it up to hold the concrete around the rocks.

 

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All we had to do then was fill the form with the rocks full of concrete.

 

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Tomorrow morning we'll pull the forms, do some chiseling and brushing of concrete to expose the stone work. Monday we'll start laying out the rock stairs.

Here's a shot of the form construction. I decided the best test of the rebar installation was to see if it would hold it's own wet concrete.

This technique is a pure seat of my pants let's hold on and see if it works kind of thing. We'll be doing some other stuff with the stones off camber and so this will be a good test to see if it's a viable method.

I've already got some improvements planned on the next phase where we have to do this.

 

[Varmintmist]

Hey, that would be a perfect place for a underwater pond light.


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There is a water tight pool light in the curb below the overhang.

This is what it looked like after we pulled the forms and dressed it up a bit.

 

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As you can see we doubled the surface area of the walkway.

 

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As you can see we needed all the surface area we could beg, borrow, or steal.

 

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All this so we could have a sandstone slab walkway from the old wall to the old path.

We slid these into place the last thing this evening. We have to do some moving and mortaring. But that's just part of it. And we wanted to see what it was going to look like.

 

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Yesterday we finally got to pour the footer for the section of wall where the old access was located.