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Can a drain be put in for a liner pond?
If so, how do you make the drain connection to the liner, so it doesn't
leak? I *might* attempt it, but the ground here is *so* rocky, that it becomes a massive amount of physical labor. -- Gareee© Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Custom Figures, Wallpapers and more! |
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Can a drain be put in for a liner pond?
Gareee© wrote:
If so, how do you make the drain connection to the liner, so it doesn't leak? I *might* attempt it, but the ground here is *so* rocky, that it becomes a massive amount of physical labor. I have a retrofitted bottom drain. There is no hole in the liner, it sits on the bottom and the water is pumped into the veggie filter. It's made by Tetra. -- Bonnie NJ |
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Can a drain be put in for a liner pond?
Greg Bickel has a system called the Bickel Boot. It is similar to a system
used by roofers using the roofing liner to seal around vent pipes. Cut a hole in the liner 1/2 the diameter of the pipe, force the pipe through the hole and use a stainless steel pipe clamp ring to assure complete seal. Several have used this for their bottom drains. I used bulkhead fittings to go through the liner much higher off the bottom, with bottom drain feeding in through the side of the pond. The four inch bolt together bulkhead fitting leaked when I filled the pond back up, so I tightened all the screws again, and again, and smeared bentonite into the joint and tightened again. No leaks now. If it had been on the bottom, I never would have gotten it stopped. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Gareee©" wrote in message ... If so, how do you make the drain connection to the liner, so it doesn't leak? I *might* attempt it, but the ground here is *so* rocky, that it becomes a massive amount of physical labor. -- Gareee© Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Custom Figures, Wallpapers and more! |
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