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drunkenfool

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18th Jul 06 at 22:53

Been planning on building a pond for ages in the garden at home and finally got round to making a start today. Forgot to get a proper "before" picture to comapre it to, it was all overgrown and generally shitty, moved loads of soil and cleared all the plants out the way, also knocked the old wall down with the help of my trusty sledge hammer (so much fun

) ready to build a new wall there. Its not a huge project but should look quite nice when done, me and my best mate are doing all the work ourselves so cant wait to sit back and see the results when its done

Made a huge mess so far but its great fun, despite constant breaks due to heat exhaustion

Digging down the middle bit about 1 1/2 foot then building up the wall around the outside to make it deep enough, my sister is having a kid soon too so we thought a wall around it will be a good idea on top of a mesh, plus it means less digging in the heat

)

Also got my dog buster helping out

Gonna build the wall up tomorrow and put the electrics in place, will get some more progress pics if anyone is interested

[Edited on 18-07-2006 by drunkenfool]

[Edited on 29-07-2006 by drunkenfool]

Gavin_G

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18th Jul 06 at 22:55

Tom J

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18th Jul 06 at 22:57

we had one in the back garden made with plastic sheeting then the dog dug it up when we were inside

so we got a solid one then much easier

Ry_B

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18th Jul 06 at 22:58

at getting the dog to help, looks like a good strart

myke

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18th Jul 06 at 23:00

looks liek a fun project.

Tom J

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18th Jul 06 at 23:01

knew i had a pic of the pond after the dog had ruined it

[Edited on 18-07-2006 by Tom J]

drunkenfool

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18th Jul 06 at 23:03

quote:
Originally posted by myke
looks liek a fun project.

Its a semi practice run for the proper koi pond that im gonna be building in my new house in september in uni, doing this one in my sisters place back home where i live over the summer

drunkenfool

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18th Jul 06 at 23:04

quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
knew i had a pic of the pond after the dog had ruined it

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/923/p1010277.jpg

[Edited on 18-07-2006 by Tom J]

Maaatttteee! Thats a mess! Hope the fish were ok.

Tom J

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18th Jul 06 at 23:05

dont think there was any fish left at all

CorsAsh

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18th Jul 06 at 23:08

I did this exact thing two years ago on the hottest day of the year, fucking silly idea TBH

drunkenfool

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18th Jul 06 at 23:19

im bidding on this 17" beauty on ebay at the moment

CorsAsh

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18th Jul 06 at 23:28

I've heard girls come out with that phrase before now

Nice gold colour that

drunkenfool

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19th Jul 06 at 19:33

Went to the builders merchants and chose all the materials, took as much back in the boot of the escort as we could (old skool low rider on the way back

), this is rough idea of how it will look.

Took ages making the foundations and getting the first layer all level etc...

Then started on the retaining wall of concrete blocks which are being tied in to the facing wall, and we are gonna fill in with concrete between the two.

And my dog buster again, guarding the sand bags

Hard days work!

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19th Jul 06 at 19:34

Skipz

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19th Jul 06 at 19:37

lol fuck a pond.. build a swimming pool for yourself

mav

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19th Jul 06 at 19:39

excellent mate, lets see it finished

drunkenfool

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19th Jul 06 at 19:44

Gonna work on it again tomorrow morning but got to work in the afternoon, not sure if im working friday or not but if not then will spend the day on it again then too.

CorsAsh

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19th Jul 06 at 19:51

quote:
Originally posted by h18_oab
lol fuck a pond.. build a swimming pool for yourself

Drunkenfool is in fact a midget, so he is doing both really.

Liam

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19th Jul 06 at 19:52

Carr

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19th Jul 06 at 20:09

cool as toast mate

Darren M

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19th Jul 06 at 21:10

your dog's head has a tad of a rotty look about him?

or is that me being stupid!!!

cool pond cant wait to get my own garden so i can start my own.

myke

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19th Jul 06 at 21:13

quote:
Originally posted by Darren M
your dog's head has a tad of a rotty look about him.

it's got jaundice

Chris F

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19th Jul 06 at 21:49

fuck, build you own pool

J da Silva

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19th Jul 06 at 21:54

Nice going fella, here's some pics of mine if you want some inspiration on plants to go round it etc, I manually dug this out, 7ft deep in middle with a concrete plate underneath to hold the weight of everything.