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Building a large pond cover
Greetings all!
Here it is, October 29 and we are at 70 F and rising! SO, I am working on building another pond cover and have two beautiful days to do it. Any suggestions for plans for a cover of 31' X 25'? I have seen a few plans and suggestions on line but they are all for much smaller areas. If any of you have constructed a large cover would you be willing to share your thoughts, ideas, methods, and the like? I hope to have a cover last all winter this year. Thanks for your help! W. Dale |
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Building a large pond cover
On 10/29/2010 1:06 PM, W. Dale wrote:
Greetings all! Here it is, October 29 and we are at 70 F and rising! SO, I am working on building another pond cover and have two beautiful days to do it. Any suggestions for plans for a cover of 31' X 25'? I have seen a few plans and suggestions on line but they are all for much smaller areas. If any of you have constructed a large cover would you be willing to share your thoughts, ideas, methods, and the like? I hope to have a cover last all winter this year. Thanks for your help! W. Dale My only time doing this, I used a haphazard construction made of plastic sheeting and lumber. Built a lumber support over the pond and then duct taped plastic sheeting together that enclosed the pond. It was a small 800-900 gallon pond, about 10 feet in diameter. The hyacinths and other plants survived when they don't in a normal winter here. It was ugly but it worked. |
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Building a large pond cover
On Oct 29, 8:08 pm, JB wrote:
On 10/29/2010 1:06 PM, W. Dale wrote: Greetings all! Here it is, October 29 and we are at 70 F and rising! SO, I am working on building another pond cover and have two beautiful days to do it. Any suggestions for plans for a cover of 31' X 25'? I have seen a few plans and suggestions on line but they are all for much smaller areas. If any of you have constructed a large cover would you be willing to share your thoughts, ideas, methods, and the like? I hope to have a cover last all winter this year. Thanks for your help! W. Dale My only time doing this, I used a haphazard construction made of plastic sheeting and lumber. Built a lumber support over the pond and then duct taped plastic sheeting together that enclosed the pond. It was a small 800-900 gallon pond, about 10 feet in diameter. The hyacinths and other plants survived when they don't in a normal winter here. It was ugly but it worked. You know, ugly that works is SO much better than pretty that doesn't! :-) I built a very nice looking cover 2 years ago. Looked great! Until some of that Colorado winter wind and snow came through. I looked out one morning and the entire structure was ripped appart and partly frozen into the pond. The only thing that kept it from sinking entirely or being blown into my neighbor's yard were the many support cables holding the flimsy thing together. Today I have about 8 ribs in place for a simple construction. I am using 1 1/4" electircal conduit, schedule 40 and 1" galvanized pipe (3' 4") to anchor three (3) connected conduits. They ran out at Lowes and I will go back next week to pick up some more. I looks like I will have 10 or maybe 11 ribs that will support the plastic and I will have one seam that I hope will not catch wind. Once that wind gets under there during a storm, it can just rip the whole thing apart. I will post some pictures soon of the process. It really is very simple. Thanks for your feed back. W. Dale |
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Building a large pond cover
W. Dale wrote: Greetings all! Here it is, October 29 and we are at 70 F and rising! SO, I am working on building another pond cover and have two beautiful days to do it. Any suggestions for plans for a cover of 31' X 25'? I have seen a few plans and suggestions on line but they are all for much smaller areas. If any of you have constructed a large cover would you be willing to share your thoughts, ideas, methods, and the like? I hope to have a cover last all winter this year. Thanks for your help! W. Dale I would use a long 2x6 or 2x8 (or even larger) to span the 25' direction. You'd probably have to order it special. I would then use PVC piping to span the 15'. Need more info? Why do you want to cover it? San Diego Joe 4,000 - 5,000 Gallons. Koi, Goldfish, and RES named Colombo. |
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Building a large pond cover
One of our enterprising pond club members has an article with a partial
picture of pond in our club newsletter this month (Oct.). Go here and click on newsletters and than Oct. www.midcolumbiakoi.com And Scroll till you see heating your pond with household ductwork. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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