Pond insulation complete, garden levelling part one completed and filter house timbers in place

Another few busy days with multiple teams on site.

The initial levelling of the garden is now complete although a further 60 to 80 tonnes of top soil will go down before turfing. We have stopped here because this allows the heavy clay soil to dry out in the sun.

All the pond block work was pointed and any rough edges were smoothed down. After that the new "flexible" 12.5mm insulation was cut to shape including the four pond return pipes and stuck onto the pond walls. Going with the 12.5mm thickness allowed the sheets to flex around the corners. Once all the sheets were in place any gaps were filled with the same black resin as was used to attach the sheets.

The pond depth is going to be 7ft 8 by the edges down to 8ft by the bottom drains. Now the insulation is on it seems to look so much bigger and deeper. Really pleased.

Over the past two days the timber structure of the filter house started to go up. We had a few changes of plan as it was going up but the final structure is looking excellent. Half of the floor will be a raised mezzanine level (see the bottom picture) so I can do gardening / potting whilst the whole lower level will contain all the filtration.

 

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