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So we're ready to begin rocking this pond in, but before we begin,
I'm wanna show you a tip that will save you a ton of money on your project.
Now, we wanna use this beautiful stone right here.
With blues and browns, it's nice and angular.
We wanna use it on the cooping stone around the edge of the pond, and in the waterfall.
But, it's not necessary, using this expensive stone below water level.
So, we've chosen a stone that is affordable, and we'll use it for below water level.
Now, the rock that's below water level is gonna have a fine bio film on it.
There will be a little bit of algae growing on it.
So, your not really gonna recognize the fact that its different, now we will use a couple
of key key specimen stones below water level, so there's a real continuity of the coping
stone and it looks like this stone kind of spills down into the bottom of the pond.
And so, it's gonna have a great look, but it's gonna save you a ton of money.
So, the next tip I'm gonna give you,
is I want you to begin rocking the bottom of the pond and work your way out.
I've seen a lot of people start rocking the pond at the top, and
as they work their way down, you'll find that there's some tension on the liner.
We don't wanna any tension on the liner.
So we're gonna rock the bottom, pull out slack on the next bench, and
then rock the next bench, and then pull ourself out to the top.
Let's begin.
>> So, what I've gone here and
done is I've placed a frame boulder on either side of this fish cape.
Now what I'm gonna do next, is I'm gonna place a bridge stone across the top,
so that it hides the face of the fish tunnel.
And when you approach your pond, you don't see it at all. There-.
>> Beautiful.
Flip it that way.
You take that side.
>> Yep.
>> Okay let it go down, we'll pull the liner back.
Pull the liner back.
Yeah.
Nice.
Now give me that cool coping stone
that one right there.
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So we've got the lower end of the pond rocked in,
and as you could see we have the affordable stone integrated through most of the bottom.
But we've also incorporated some of the more expensive stone in amongst the other part,
so it looks like it blends right in to the lower end of the pond where you get the,
the cobble and smoother stone look.
The next step, as you can see, all these voids that are in here from this stone, we're
gonna take some, some smaller cobble and gravel, and we'll fill in all these voids.
And we will fill in [COUGH] some waterfall foam in the cracks,
as we work our way up to help solidify the wall.
Now, if you do eight inch shelves all the way down.
The walls will be a whole lot more stable,
but I like the look of having these tall walls.
This is about a 24 inch vertical wall and then it steps back, and
goes up another eight or ten inches.
So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna fill in the voids.
We'll fill in some cracks with the waterfall foam, help harden it off and
then we have the good look. Okay?
Let's do this.
So, what we've done here on these tall walls, we wanna lock everything in place.
Now this is not your typical eight inches down, eight inches down, shelf.
Otherwise you'd put one eight inch rock there and it would hold in place.
But, since we have a 24 inch vertical wall right here we wanna take the cobble and
gravel fill all the voids squirt a little bit of the waterfall foam in there
when it hardens off the walls nice.
Nice and strong and then you can walk around the whole top edge, and
not have to worry about it falling in on you.