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The next thing for us to tackle is to manage
any wrinkles that have accumulated on the pond's floor.
Now I want to encourage you to get as many wrinkles out as possible
because we want any debris that hits the bottom of the pond to move its
way to the bottom drain uninterrupted.
Now the easiest way for
us to tackle this is to start adding water to the pond, and as the pond
starts to fill we can start to push the wrinkles to the side walls.
Once the weight of the water is in place,
the wrinkles won't come back.
Right here.
Okay.
At this point, I don't want you to get too excited and turn the water
on too fast, because you want to take your time on this, cuz if it's
filling too fast, these wrinkles get caught up on you real quick.
So it's real easy if you have someone standing in the center and
just keep working in a circle around the drain.
And as the water's filling you can have a partner grab the line and
pull up, and just gonna push that stuff up like this.
Chuck, John let's do this.
Check this out.
So see this wrinkle here,
you have someone pull that, and just barely push up.
Maybe over here a little bit, John.
Yeah.
Because the bottom of our pond has a cone shape,
we have to work the liner in circles.
We can't just pull this side 'cuz when we pull that side,
we create a wrinkle here and here.
We can't just work this side because we create wrinkles here and here.
So you'll see it's just continued working around the outsides.
Now I wanna encourage you just to have one person in the middle
working it out, and one person on the outside pulling it out.
Right?
You don't wanna walk around the edge of the pond like this, messing with
it because, right around here, there's not enough weight.
And so, if you're standing here working,
like this, you're actually pushing the liner down.
So you wanna be in the center pushing out and
having someone way on the outside pulling that way.
Just keep working in circles and
you'll see that the wrinkles just start to
work themselves out as you go up cuz of the weight of the water.
This is a tedious process.
It's slow, it's time consuming.
But this is the difference that makes or
breaks the look of the bottom of the pond.
So just take your time.
I want to turn the hose up right now and go faster, believe me.
This is when you just gotta slow down and just work it out,
little by little.
At some point it doesn't make any more sense to have a guy in the pond
pulling out because he'll be working on top of himself.
So you want to have a couple of guys up top,
and they can be pulling slack and creating the release right here for
us to push the wrinkles out.
So, nice.
Right here guys.
Now that the pond's floor is completely covered in water,
notice that the water's all the way up to the side walls.
We've worked out all of the folds.
Now there's a couple of little waves that you'll probably
see in the bottom of the floor when you're doing yours.
But don't worry about it, cuz once you fill the pond up with water,
the pressure and weight of the water will push them flat.
Now we can begin to manage the wrinkles on the side walls.
So, what we're doing is we're managing all
the wrinkles on the side of the walls,
we're consolidating them into some folds.
Now, if this was a water garden and we were stacking stonework on
the interior of the pond, I wouldn't worry about the wrinkles whatsoever.
But this is a dedicated koi pond.
So our focus is on water quality.
And if I had rock work inside of the pond,
hiding the wrinkles, debris and sludge starts to build back there.
And then we have to drain the pond annually for maintenance.
We're going to be managing our water quality in this pond very carefully
with bottom drain technology, filtration, UV, and B filters, and
so forth.
So let me finish working on these wrinkles and the folds.
So we've worked our way around the entire pond
and consolidated all that we could.
Now it's time to throw all the hoses on the property
into the pond and fill it as quickly as possible.
Now I'm gonna keep a couple of guys in the water and
they're gonna continue to work around and
make adjustments to the liner so
we can keep everything nice and tight.
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