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Sacha[_3_] · 27-07-2008, 07:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 24/5/08 15:15, in article
, "Chrissy"
wrote:

On May 24, 10:12*am, Adam wrote:
Thanks for the helpful thoughts everyone. I've found a couple of other
people to give some quotes, so let's see what theirs look like.

Adam

I'd be interested in hearing what the other quotes are because £10,000
sounds like a joke - sorry but I would have thrown a quote like that,
straight in the bin because it just seems way OTT. I've never had one
installed, my pond was here when I bought the place. I was surprised
someone said £1000 - I'd think a quote like that would be very good
but as others have said, best to find out exactly what they're
offering for their quotes.

2 foot doesn't seem that deep, mine is not quite as large but about 3
feet at the deepest points - it may depend whether you have small
children or not, of course you might not want it that deep.

We did a customers near 1 acre field for him last winter, large - very
large, perhaps quarter acre - pond for which the liner alone cost £3k. We
hired a digger, two people did the work, planted it all up, supplying all
the plants, laid gravel etc. and it cost £20k for all that including labour
and materials and plants. He didn't need a filtration system but has a
powerful pump which takes water in from a stream in one small area and
returns it via a second pond which is more of a bog garden, lower down.
There are some pics on the web site under More Info. which will give the OP
an idea of the size of the pond.
2' is not deep enough for fish BTW but a small child can drown in a puddle,
so in that sense the depth is immaterial from the safety point of view.
£10k for a pond that size is appalling! I'm shocked, truly.

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon