All right the first bench is done.
And we are ready to spray paint the next level.
This is where it gets a little tricky and I don't like to just come in 12 inches from our
circle that we dug out, and spray paint in 12 inches and go down another 12 inches.
I like to get a little creative.
We're gonna leave little larger ben- bench on the pack of the pond for aquatic plants.
We'll leave a larger bench, in front of the waterfall, for larger character stones, but
when the main destination spot, where you're gonna walk up, and approach the pond, we're,
we're not gonna come in 12 inches, we're actually gonna blend our shelf
right into that wall, and we're gonna make it, deeper right there so the fish.
Can come up and swim and eat and hang out with the with the people right there.
So I'm gonna spray this out our skimmer is gonna be right in front of me I'm gonna have
a nice bench in front of there, watch as I do this okay.
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Now this bench right here,
I'm gonna dye it right into that wall, and a lot a people don't understand how to do that
when I'm communicating with them but, that whole bench across the back,
we're gonna have eight inches, aquatic plants, character boulders, and this bench.
Dives right tin there.
This is where people will approach the pond.
And we're gonna go down, 12 more inches straight from this wall.
So this is next level.
Let's start digging.
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Okay, so we achieved our second level.
We sculpted it all out, I ran our straight edge across here so you could see him.
This is how we're gonna check our depth.
Currently we are 20 inches,
my goal in this pond is 30 inches today, so we're gonna dig down another 10 inches.
I'll spray paint out another bench.
At this point, we're getting smaller in here, so I'm gonna make a mark for
the skimmer location, so we can have someone start digging the skimmer out.
And then we'll make our next shelf.
Now, this is the time when you wanna try and plot out your water lilies, for example.
If you wanna have a waterlily shelf, it's good at about 20 inches deep.
So we're gonna create a bench for a waterlily shelf at that level as well.
So let's spray paint this out.
This is where we'll put the skimmer, so we're gonna over dig that.
I'm still gonna stay deep right here.
My goal is, when we walk up to the edge of the pond, 30 inches deep.
So I'm gonna create a bench right here for Water Lily.
[SOUND] So
it's almost like some stairs you can walk right in, makes it nice and safe.
And then, I'm just gonna do another little, s, scallop right here.
[SOUND] So
you see I didn't do a circle all the way around the pond.
I just have some little benches coming down.
And this section I'm standing in right in the middle, we're gonna go to 30 inches deep.
Let's get going.
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All right, we made it to the final level.
We're at 30 inches.
I put my straightedge across here with a level.
Now, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take a rake, and
I'm gonna rake everything to the bottom of the pond.
All those little, little rocks that you see around the edge,
we'll pull them down to the bottom and we'll tamp them out.
Make it nice and smooth.
And then we will be ready for underlayment, and then a liner.
Before we take that step in the next video, we're gonna take some time and
show you how to make a nice hiding spot,
within one of the shelves in a covert pipe in our excavated soil.
I know this was a fast paced video.
If anything was unclear, do me a favor.
Type your questions in the comments section,
cuz if you're unclear about something that means a lot of people are.
I'll get to every single one of the questions,
I'll make sure that everyone understands.
The excavations part, so you do it right the first time.
I'm Eric Triplett, The Pond Digger, thanks for watching.
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