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Create your water garden pond in the lowest cost way
Liners are the most cost effective method of making a waterproof pond or
pool in your garden, but what is there really to choose between all the makes
and materials? Peter May tells you what will help you make it neat or natural.
They will tell you these are made from HDPE (High Density Polyethylene), PP
(Polypropylene) PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride) or ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene
Styrene) and there are also fibreglass -- mostly bigger heavier ponds and pools
except these days there are some great looking natural rock-like ponds, streams,
waterfalls all made from fibreglass ...
Despite the variety of brand names most of the liners available are one of
several quite distinctly different materials that will all do the same job, and
as individual materials they only come from 2 and 3 factories around the world.
The flexible sheets of material are either PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) or
Polyethylene -- those are the shiny ones -- and matt coloured ones are EPDM
rubber (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomar) or Butyl rubber.
DIY pond
installation instructions complete detailed pond liner installation starting
wit kit. Illustrated with images
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD OF RIGID POOLS If we talk about rigid pools for a
moment, harking back to 1982 when there were only pools made of fibreglass.
There were good and bad brands, as fibreglass pools are products that require
manual skill to produce.
But on the whole if the pools survived the delivery and installation process,
they generally lasted longer than their owners.
Once it was realised that you only could get small pools from these materials,
fibreglass re-emerged into a new niche, offering highly durable pools that were
larger and deeper than the plastic competition ...
A particularly attractive proposition for people interested in creating water
gardens for fish, even Koi carp keepers (especially when they were pandered to
with the dimples and grooves built into the shape to take the pipe work and
fittings for the very best type of biological filtration, when it is 'gravity
fed' from a sump in the bottom of the pool.) Rigid pools represent 'the cheap
and cheerful' end of the market on a par with the moderately priced flexible
liners in terms of price per square foot of surface area and if there is a shape
and size that suits the space you had in mind they are worth considering.
With PVC, it was ok if the liner was completely obscured and then it would last
indefinitely but then it seemed so fragile.
It evolves a certain patina over time that gives it an almost natural stone look
and for some people this may be a disqualification.
For people keen on cleanliness and godliness, they will find PVC and
Polyethylene easier to clean.
As I've said before, it has resilience to stone impact, which served me well
when I was building waterfalls before the idea of protective underlay over the
liner was ever thought of.
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