Question. Is your liner the Xavan or EPDM liner? If it is EPDM then look
at http://www.geocities.com/bickal2000/pond.htm for the pipe boot as a do it
yourself means of creating hole through the liner. He also has a DIY bottom
drain, and other good info. You can also buy bulkhead fittings which have
threaded flanges on both sides to clamp the liner, or you can make one with
two water closet flanges. I am not familiar with the properties of Xavan.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html


"Russ and Cathy" wrote in message
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We plan on building an above ground pond. 5ft by 8ft. We have boughten a
magnetic utility pump 1200 GPH and Tetra Pond Clearchoice PF3 Filter for
ponds up to 2600 gallons. The liner we bought is a tetra pond liner for
600
gallons. I really dont understand how if you poke plastic with a pipe,
how
it doesnt rip or tear the plastic and how does it adhere to it without it
leaking? Of course meaning the bottom drain.
This is the 3rd pond we will have built or formed. The 1st being a
preformed
molded plastic one which holds 80 gallons of water. The 2nd is one we
added
into our house which holds 50 gallons of water and set into concrete. This
2nd one has a bottom drain already formed into it. We definetely love our
fish and pond plants. We winter both fish and pond plants in our home for
the winter because as you might know here in Western NY, we have some
pretty
terrible winters.
Thank you for your response and help and hopefully from what i have told
you, you can add some more advise.
Cathy
"BenignVanilla" m wrote
in
message ...
"russandcathy" wrote in message
...
I read how people use the plastic liners but also read how they
install
a
drain pipe . How do you install a drain pipe in a plastic liner?
Thanks
in
advance for your help.
Cathy

By drain pipe, do you mean bottom drain? If so there numerous ways to
run
a
piece of piep through a flexible liner. There are many store bought
products, as well DIY versions. Can you be a bit more specific? I am
sure
with a few more details about your plan, there are many experienced
porgs
here to help.

BV.