Ummm, Elaine...
You should know that pressure treated wood contains some very serious
toxins! In fact so serious that the wood is usually labeled at the lumber
yard as to not eat after handling it. Let me explain what can happen...
You set you pond up using this wood, you line it. Ok not let's say ir rains
or lawn sprinklers hit it, whatever... Any of the water that runs off the
wood and gets into the pond will poison the pond water with poisons. I just
read an article about a few cities that used this wood for childrens
climbing parks and playgrounds until they reliased the error that they made.
It was found that the ground around the treated wood would become saturated
with the toxins and even after the wooden fixtures were removed, they later
had to remove the sand play areas and surface layers of dirt and sod to get
rid of it. I don't mean to scare you, but poison is poison and it there's
way for it to get into your pond from the framwork you make, you can bet it
probably will. I posted my experience with an epoxy coating below that the
koi kote guys say can be applied to wood too. I would ask them about your
wood idea and see what they say. Maybe you can get away with something
other than pressure treated wood and just coat it with the epoxy I used.
Their site is www.koi-koteusa.com
"Elaine T" wrote in message
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~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
As for no electricity, the only way to run an extension cord would be to
leave a window ajar. I'm not crazy about doing that because then I
couldn't lock it. I think unfiltered will be fine, especially now that
I know about little minnows.


Unfilter is okay.... but just out of curiousity, do you have a porch
light?
You could always put one of those socket things in it, and screw the
light
back in. ~ jan


Now THAT is a good idea! Gives me some more options.

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