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[MickyA 10]

I have a pretty big pond, about 25ft x 15ft x 3.5ft and love it. The rigid one's are good if you find a shape you like but I prefer a liner as you can make it look more natural. Put down enough sand and old carpet and they'll last 25yrs or so, even after that then just lay some new liner over that.

 

A good pump and filter is vital though

[davyboy 19]

Don't underestimate how much soil there will be to move ,one of my old neighbours built his pond 10 foot deep, took a week to move all the soil

 

Did his wife disappear shortly after???

[jane2008 15]

We built our pond up rather than down for safety issues

[Alcoblog 10]

We built our pond up rather than down for safety issues

 

How does the water stay in it then?

[alchresearch 214]

Maybe something like this?

 

http://www.aquatic-care.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Case_image_3.jpg

[Hesther 10]

Only have a garden pond if you will not be having any children in your garden ever. If you are going to have children in the garden at some point, then you need to put some sort of heavy duty, lockable metal grid over it, to take a child's weight at least, or a heavy duty wooden trellis laid flat over it, that will take at least a child's weight, and is replaced when it becomes weak.

 

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I have a pretty big pond, about 25ft x 15ft x 3.5ft and love it. The rigid one's are good if you find a shape you like but I prefer a liner as you can make it look more natural. Put down enough sand and old carpet and they'll last 25yrs or so, even after that then just lay some new liner over that.

 

A good pump and filter is vital though

 

I have to agree with this.

 

Check out all the reviews for the solar pumps, as you will be surprised what power you need if you want to keep the water clean and electric pumps can really push up your bills.

[alchresearch 214]

Only have a garden pond if you will not be having any children in your garden ever. If you are going to have children in the garden at some point, then you need to put some sort of heavy duty, lockable metal grid over it, to take a child's weight at least, or a heavy duty wooden trellis laid flat over it, that will take at least a child's weight, and is replaced when it becomes weak.

 

I think that's a bit extreme. I know there's recently been the death of those two twins:

 

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/tributes-paid-to-twins-2-who-died-after-falling-into-pond-1-4065574

 

But a bit of care, responsibility and supervision should be all that's needed.

[Alcoblog 10]

I think that's a bit extreme. I know there's recently been the death of those two twins:

 

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/tributes-paid-to-twins-2-who-died-after-falling-into-pond-1-4065574

 

But a bit of care, responsibility and supervision should be all that's needed.

 

I think Hesther means if you're intending leaving kids unsupervised in the garden.

Otherwise the same rules of covering anything of H2O nature with heavy duty, lockable metal grids would apply to the sea, public swimming pools, children's paddling pools etc, etc.

 

As a teeny kid, I was just bunged in the garden for the day and expected to survive, armed with nothing but my own inherent cognitive self-preservation neural pathways … I'm still here. No Darwin Award for me.

[Hesther 10]

I think that's a bit extreme. I know there's recently been the death of those two twins:

 

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/tributes-paid-to-twins-2-who-died-after-falling-into-pond-1-4065574

 

But a bit of care, responsibility and supervision should be all that's needed.

 

The latest figures I found were from 2005, when an average of 5 children a year drowned in garden ponds in the UK. Recent reports say this has increased as the number of households with water features have increased.

 

The trouble with 'supervising' children in the garden, is that you can never supervise them 100% and it only takes a second for them to disappear in a pond.

[jane2008 15]

How does the water stay in it then?

 

:hihi: It's a magic pond alco. :hihi:

[Janus 28]

Hello thanks for the replies im not wanting fish in it I am thinking about something similar to this

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bermuda-Pre-Formed-Pond-Bay-litres/dp/B0053GQ9U6/ref=sr_1_1?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1457961730&sr=1-1&keywords=pre+formed+ponds

 

or abit smaller and having a solar fountain in the middle with stones round the sides ?

 

The 2watts from that solar panel is a very small output even if it was just for a light, but especially for powering a motor in a pump.

[JackK0 10]

Hello right well I don't have kids or intend on any coming round... so thats fine

 

And the solar panel you have seen isn't one I was looking at Ive not looked them yet really