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So I'm gonna do just a final dry fit here.
Make sure that's good.
I got plenty of clearance.
I'm liking that.
So now I can do the final gluing.
I want to get that twist on there.
Twist it out level.
Hold it for a second.
All right, we're good.
Just gonna do the final little piece for our air line.
Now, I still have a little play right here too,
so I can cut this to fit.
All right, that's done.
Now, the next step is,
right now the bottom drain's kind of hanging there, suspended.
It's still connected to the four inch pipe, and.
This is excess, don't need that.
So, that's kind of hanging there suspended.
So, what I need to do next is I need to take this back fill,
all of the soil that I've reserved here and I need to back fill this
area here and take the dirt all the way to about here.
Cuz when we put the concrete around the bottom drain,
the main objective is to create an anchor around the bottom drain,
completely encase the whole upper and lower section in concrete and
it acts as an anchor to keep it from heaving and
coming up if you get rainwater underneath the pond.
We wanna do a thin layer and we're gonna add some water onto this so
we can compact it.
We have good compaction around this drain.
Could you add some water please?
Little stronger.
Yeah.
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We ended up using about six or seven bags of concrete.
And I'm just gonna scrape this level with the top of here.
When I take these screws out and pull this ring off,
the liner will attach to here, so it's gonna be cool.
If my concrete is level with the top of this,
the liner will do a little drop in.
And let me show you something.
If I came to the bottom of the ring, my ring would be up and
then I'd have this little speed bump of stuff going in there.
So that's why I left the I left the dome on there,
the ring I should say and, I don't want a speed bump so
I'm gonna come like flush to the top of that, you see.
And once we get that all done, we'll let this harden off, and then I
still have to taper this dirt, cuz this ended up being a little bit
lower which is cool cuz the pond'll just be a couple inches deeper.
I'm sure Rosemary's not going to have a problem with that.
So we want to just taper this.
This is a little higher than the drain, so
I'm going to just scrape this out, away, do that with my fancy trowel.
We didn't have any trowels in the truck today, so
you know, American ingenuity.
We are using a piece of wood.
It will be fine.
So we got the bottom drain pretty much wrapped up for the evening.
We have to take at least 24 hours off, Rosie, at least.
>> I wanna get this pond done.
>> [LAUGH] All right.
So once this dries off then we're gonna resculpt the bottom of
the pond, have everything tapered down to the bottom here.
And then we'll be on to the next step.
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