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Hey, I'm Eric Triplett, The Pond Digger.
Today, I wanna share a really special project with you.
We're gonna install a patio pond with an active bog filter.
Now, this project was inspired by all the people that I met over the years,
that have limited space, but they want to enjoy the experience of water gardening, and
the tranquility, and the lifestyle.
You know, maybe they own, a condo, or they're renting an apartment.
Maybe they are renting a house, and they don't wanna tear into the landscape,
cuz they, they don't plan on staying there for very long.
The patio pond is perfect for these people.
We're gonna build this out, we're gonna make it a really special element in here,
in the landscape, and we're gonna make it look really pretty.
We're gonna have an upper area, for water gardening.
We'll have a lot of aquatic plants.
It's gonna spill into the bottom end.
Well we're gonna grow some fancy goldfish.
Now, as the water passes from this top area down into the lower one,
we'll have that trickling water effect, that calming sound of water.
So when the client is out here, relaxing on the patio, cooking, or, or
just hanging out with friends and family, they'll get that full package effect.
We're gonna show you step by step, how to do everything.
Let's begin.
[SOUND] For starters, I wanna talk to you about the materials that we selected.
I have a three foot by four foot by 18 inch deep, pre-fabricated injection molded pond.
I got it from Laguna here, and it's roughly 100 gallons.
Now, this is gonna be the area, where we're gonna have the fish.
We'll probably put some kinda water lily, or a floating heart-style plant.
But in here, we're going to put a submersible pump.
I'm gonna drill a hole through the side wall.
We'll use a bulk head fitting, and I'm gonna run my plumbing through here, and
then up into the bottom of this unit.
Now, if you look inside this unit, we have a series of, of pipes that we have here,
and this is gonna be our manifold for our filtration, for the bottom of the bog.
Now, when I say active bog it means, I'm sending water into the bottom of it and
it's coming up, flowing through the gravel and through the roots of the plants.
And then we're gonna punch a hole through here, and
it's gonna trickle back down into the lower pond.
So, the difference between a bog, which is stagnant water, and
you don't really have much activity in there, cuz you're not pushing water through it and
an active bog, that's what, we're gonna do here.
So, we're gonna push the water up through this manifold assembly.
The next step for us to do is, to start to glue these pieces together, and
we're gonna cut the notches, and show you how to do the whole thing.
The bottom of my tank is 45 inches.
So, I've pulled all my fittings out, and for the sake of this exercise,
I have it measured out.
45 inches is right here, let's see where this drill is at.
Now, I'm leaving room for my bulkhead to come through here, and
I have these guys equally spaced out.
Now, in a perfect world, I'm doing a large bog filter,
I'll have these pieces set 12 inches on center.
I just have them pinched in just a little bit, I have 11 inches on center,.
[SOUND] So it's almost identical to what I would do on a large feature.
So, this center, center piece right here, we're gonna call our manifold, and
then the arms that we come off, and the tanks approximately 36 inches wide, so.
[SOUND] We'll have, you know, about a, probably a 14-inch piece,
that sticks out here, and that's gonna be our lateral.
We'll have a series of slots in there, but let's begin with the manifold.
I'm gonna cut this first.
What I've done is, I've measured this out.
[SOUND] It's 11 inches on center.
And I need an eight-inch piece to come in between there,
so I'm gonna mark these guys out, and
I'll cut my eight-inch pieces, and
then we'll glue that piece together.
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Now, you should be able to come through with
a knife, and just divert these edges real quick.
Turn to something nice and clean.
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'Okay, now we're ready for some glue.
So now, I wanna show you a trick right here, as I glue these together.
What we don't want is when you, when you glue these guys together,
we don't want them, cock-eyed like this.
So these guys have to be perfectly connected.
We don't want them like this, otherwise, when you go to lay it flat,
it's gonna be all twisted.
So first I'll come through and
I'll just put primer on a bunch of this.
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All right,
primer's done.
So, watch as I glue the second one together, how we keep them all in line.
[NOISE] First one sets the stage, give a little twist and hold.
Now, I just wanna be clear, when I glue this together, I want them to lay perfectly flat,
so this one's not coming up, and that one's going down.
[NOISE] I typically, glue the inside fitting first.
[NOISE] Gives me a little freedom to set it down, and it's not dripping anywhere.
I'll come through with this guy.
Now here's what I do, I'll get it in there, give it a twist,
and then I'll set it on a flat surface like this and push down.
And these two fittings are touching that bottom, and
gives me a nice clean connection like that, okay?
So there we go.
Let's do this next one.
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All right, so there is our manifold.
Now, we can begin the laterals on.
I'll go get a measurement just to double check.
We wanna measure twice, cut once.
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So, the bottom of the tank is 28 inches.
[SOUND] So, half of that, 14.
And I don't want it to be super tight to the wall, so
I'm gonna give myself a little bit of play.
So, let's say, I'm gonna come in at 13.
So, I got it right at the center, it's 13.
[NOISE] That'll give me a little bit of freedom, right here.
And, so I'm looking at about 11 and a half-inch lateral.
So I'll cut two, four, six, eight pieces at 11 and
a half inches, and then we'll get them prepared to go.
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