Decorative pond is one of the key elements of landscape design. Beautifully furnished, it symbolizes life, is the embodiment of peace, fills the garden with the charm of charm and life. Having decided to create a pond in the garden with your own hands, you get a unique opportunity to translate all your creative ideas into reality and become a real home designer.
Construction should begin by digging a pit. Its walls should be made rather sloping, and the bottom should be laid out with a layer of oily clay - about 20 centimeters. The clay layer must be well compacted and rolled, for this it must first be moistened. Next, another layer of clay is laid out - about 10 centimeters, it is carefully covered with fine gravel or pebbles. In principle, the first stage of work on this ends, and the future pond in the garden with your own hands should be filled with water.
It is possible to solve the problem of pond waterproofing in another way. For this, the bottom should first be covered with an even layer of sand, and on top lay a special film or roofing material. A layer of gravel about 15 centimeters is placed on the waterproofing material. Now your pond in the garden can be filled.
So that the water level is always at a certain level, you can bring a water pipe to the construction. Then opening the tap at the right time, you can adjust the filling of your pond. As you can see, making a pond in the garden with your own hands is not as difficult as it seems at first glance.
You can give this element of landscape design any shape, make small waterfalls or rapids in it. To do this, the bottom of the pit must first be laid out with a layer of sand and several layers of waterproofing material. Sand should be properly moistened and tamped. Then you can lay the reinforcing mesh, giving the future reservoir any configuration. A layer of cement mortar about 15 centimeters is poured on top. It should dry for at least two days. Then you can make a
concrete screed, the ratio of the solution in this case is one to two.
When building a pond in the garden with your own hands, when creating thresholds, you should pick up several stones of suitable size in advance and put them on the cement floor in the form of a ladder. In this case, the circulation of water can be organized using low-power pumps, which will feed it up, and from there it will flow down the stones. When installing the pump, one must take into account the fact that the wires must have good insulation, which will ensure their safety for others. It is better to lay them under stones and ground.
In order for your pond in the garden, built with your own hands, not to be filled with rain water, you must make a tap in it. To do this, you can use an asbestos-cement pipe, at the ends of which you need to install a fine mesh. The pipe is installed at the surface of the pond and discharged into the gutter.
When constructing a pond, do not forget that its size should correspond to the size of your site. If the pond turns out to be too big, it can break all harmony. Visually, it can be reduced with boulders or slides of stones located along the banks.
So, if you did not know how to make an artificial pond in the garden with your own hands, now you can safely proceed to its organization.