Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[wroughtn_harv]

I personally see a little fear mixed well with a touch of common sense as the best guard rail.

But we'll come up with something.

It'll be different and hopefully appropriate for the situation.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I sat on the steps with a friend of the customer's today. She expressed your sentiments exactly. She wouldn't even consider that route previously.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Hmmmmmmm.

Darn.

It's too bad I only make one of things. I could make some money on a peaked pipe gate for a restaurant. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[ScottAR]

Coming along nicely,

Sorry to hear of your loss. Do let the best thing about you know your family will be in our thoughts and prayers...

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Tomorrow is today. It happens all the time. Keeps it all interesting if you know what I mean.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The Halite or cinder blocks are at their final height on the south wall. These are the eight by sixteens standing on top of the twelve by sixteens. We'll be putting flat boulders on these as a decorative touch for about two feet below the water level and up.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Today I started the trenching for the conduits to the columns for the floating boulders and to the lights in the wall.

Hopefully tomorrow we'll have the trenching complete, the conduit ran, and backfilled.

Monday we'll start pouring the floor of the pond that will have a concrete floor.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Hmmmmmmmm, we did well, had a good day. There's just a lot of work to be done before we pour the floor.

Today we got two and a third yards poured along the base of the south wall.

We also got the pull lines in all of the conduits and the sonotubes cut for the columns.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This will give you an idea of the pattern for the floating boulders.

The boulders were supposed to be in yesterday. Now it appears they'll be here Monday. I don't want to pour the columns until I have the boulders in hand.

I've got to figure out the positioning of the boulder to give the best effect. So the height of the column will be determined in part by that.

The supplier ordered fourteen boulders out of Colorado weighing between seven hundred and fifteen hundred pounds. When that truck hits town I want to be there to choose the rocks I want for the pond.

Each boulder will be plumbed for the water features. Not only will the boulders be different, the features will also be different. The customer mentioned that it would be kewel for one of the boulders to have a natural bird bath.

Doable.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

One of the concerns of course is an escape from a steep sided pond. Our path along the old wall will provide that.

If you look at the south wall you will see it's final height for a deck area. Along the bottom curb that's the transition from the vertical to the horizontal you will see an area that's without the boulders. That's where the base of the platform will be.

The platform will be a place to leave the deck to start down the path. We plan on putting in handholds of stone along the old wall to act as a handrail.