"Jeff Layman" wrote

BobHobden wrote:
Over the last couple of months we have been busy removing our old 3000
gal
Koi pond and filters and turning our garden back into a garden like most
people have.
I had no idea the concrete walls were so thick under the butyl rubber
liner,
took a heavy sledge hammer to shift it. Builder did a good job of the
walls
(London weathered yellow brick) and the new patio (sawn brown Indian
sandstone) . After laying the lawn on Thursday it's now virtually done
except it needs some more plants.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...57667006183074



Looking good! Soldier bricks always look attractive, IMHO. Nice tree fern,
by the way.

Did you ever consider leaving the bottom third or so of the pond as a water
storage area? It could have been covered over with concrete beams, then a
waterproof membrane, and then 15 cm or so of soil, followed by lawn grass
as you have now. If the storage tank was fed from a drainpipe, you would
never be short of rainwater.


Yes, we didn't want capping stones on all the walls so it had to be soldier
bricks. They did do capping stones from the same stone as the patio but it
was too chunky and bullnosed and wouldn't have looked right (too modern?).
Trouble is the bricks are not quite so strong that way as the rest of the
wall so you can't fill the soil up to the top, at least that is what our
builder said. We took some while to choose the right bricks and patio slabs
and are both pleased with the combination.

No, didn't even think of making it more complicated/expensive.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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