Many people are still searching the net for information on how to build a falls or koi pond. Unfortunately, there is very little information regarding professional construction. There are thousands of websites involved in marketing pond products to unenlightened and unsuspecting customers.
The majority of these sites promote and advocate the use of rubber pond liners. Why? Because they sell them. Rubber liners are profitable, primarily because of the add-on products associated the pond liner industry. For example, when you construct your pond exploitation a pond liner, you have no choice but to buy all of the related accessories such as a biofilter, special skimmers and drains, and the large variety of energy-sucking, inefficient, short-lived sump pumps.
Rarely do pond liner dealers or installers tell you the whole truth about the unpredictability of liners and sump pumps. Rarely do they acknowledge the truth about the exposure of liners after they are installed - whether it be attacks by rats, mice, ground squirrels, gophers, chipmunks or the sharp claws of animals that can deflate the liner in their attempt to get out of the pond after accidentally or deliberately entering it. Animals burrow under the liner through the easy access of the loose rocks concentrated around the pond and falls. Against the coolness of the liner, they build their nests and raise their families that can then chew holes in the liner.
Semrush Prague
Over the past twenty years I have replaced myriad leaky fallss and ponds constructed exploitation rubber liners with concrete and rebar construction. In thirty years of building over 2,000 fallss and ponds, I have ne'er had one crack or leak.
Liner advocates tell you their liner has a thirty to forty year warranty, but fail to mention it is against manufactory defects only. They don't mention the other issues like rodents, heavy rocks stretch and cacophonous the liner, and damage from children with sharp sticks or garden utensils. I've seen it all!
Many water garden contractors will misrepresent the liner as the best construction material by expression concrete is dearly-won and it cracks. Yes, that is true, if you don't build it properly exploitation 3500 psi concrete and rebar 8 to 10 inches on center. Plus, they say the base poisons the water. That is true only you don't seal the concrete with a sealant after it is poured. Concrete construction costs 20-25% more than a liner, but it lasts for decades. You only have to replace one liner for the concrete pond to cost well less in the long run. In the past five years there have been gobs of lawsuits against pond liner contractors and their clients win every time.
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