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~ jan JJsPond. us wrote: Incorrect. A wax toilet base seal has only momentary water flow through it when you flush the toilet. There is thousands of pounds of water weight (pressure) sitting on top of the seal, constantly expanding and shrinking as the temperature changes in your pond. This expansion and contraction will result in a leak in the bottom drain fitting to pond liner connection over time and make your life complicated. And just how do you think they've managed all these year with bottom drains in swimming pools that are of the liner type? They were installed by professional crews that are properly trained. Not by someone who wants a pond in their backyard and buys the components and tries to build one themselves. You can only cut a hole in a perfectly good liner ONCE. Not a practice I would advise to just anyone. If you screw it up the project is done. This is not true. Even with a perfectly operating bottom drain you WILL get an accumulation of muck and debris. That is unless you have NO gravel or rocks on the pond liner bottom. That's why it is recommended by the AKCA and many of us here (Google for Rocks or Not) for not rocking a pond. However, most people have rocks and gravel Not rocking a pond is a creepy sterile environment. If you just want to eliminate maintenance fine then. I for one don't like to see a liner when I look into the water and go to great lengths to hide it. See pictu http://www.pondkoi.com/pond_gallery_008.htm#pondpic Now this is where you are just plain inexperienced. Most people do not have rocks, and many who did, don't have them now. You need to perform spring and fall maintenance. (Start-up and Winterization) Without rocks, with a bottom drain, there is no needed for such muscle straining work in the spring or winter. The work is only dealing with the filter. It is very easy to put your fish in a kiddie pool for a few hours while you drain your pond, rent a power washer (or buy one they are not that expensive) and spray the rocks and gravel, then suck out the muck. A very easy task that just needs to be done in the spring anyway. 1. I am not a marketing rep. I am a 55 year old retired engineer from the Federal Aviation Administration. I built the website for my daughter and son-in-law at www.pondkoi.com. You are representing a company (family owned) that deals in ponds, are you not? I am not an employed marketing rep. I am a person who builds websites and just happened to build one for my family members. Last I checked my freedom to exchange topical information was still intact. Regardless that your son-in-law doesn't work for Aquascape now, this design is #1 because of great marketing and people seeing the beauty and not realizing the high maintenance needed. My club informs people that they MUST do the yearly recommended maintenance as they'll soon have a cesspool with this design. If draining and power washing their pond yearly isn't appealing, come on over to the AKCA way of doing it. They've been doing and giving advice far, far longer than the Aquascape design has been in play. You club is a good thing. You can gather people with diverse opinions and share information. It is nice that you have a group of people to network with. If your goal is to have NO pond structure maintenance then you are on track. But you sacrifice the natural look of a gravel and rocked in pond. One thing I will say about AS, they have assimilated a lot more people into ponders, and this is a very good thing. Congratulations on your first grandchild. I'm hoping my recently married son will wait awhile (no matter how much I'd like one), as he's in the Army, based at Ft.Hood and has already done a year in Iraq. ~ jan Thanks for the congrats. I applaud your son for his service to his country and wish you and him well. |
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