The Perfect Pond Recipe Book

How To Build Your Own Pond Starting with a Typical Liner Kit

If you have longed for a water feature in your garden but never had the courage to start the pond project then now's your chance. Start with a pre-packed pond liner kit. This website is geared to showing you exactly how to install such a kit to make sure you avoid costly errors and more importantly do everything right the first time. In this way it won't be long before you'll want a bigger pond and want to learn a lot more about how to create the perfect pond. Your whole family will suddenly find a new exciting interest in the garden as a whole.

The new pond water feature will add greatly to your joy of the garden and nature in general.

The complete instructions for building the DIY pond are divided into logical sections and by clicking the link below you can go to the appropriate pond construction section directly.

Start with a Pond Kit

One of the very best and lowest cost ways to enjoy the serenity, peace and life associated with a small water garden is to buy a pre-packaged liner kit. In the example we will use pretend you have bought the following kit which once installed and matured will create a pond looking something like this one below.

finished liner pond kit

What's in the pond liner kit?

1 2.5m x 3m (8ft x 10ft) 0.35mm PVC pond liner. This liner is the right size to make a pond approximately 1.5m x 2.1m x 0.45m deep (5ft x 7ft x 18ins deep)
1 submersible pond pump for use with the biological filter box
1 biological pond filter
2 metres of 20mm corrugated crushproof tubing
2 hose clips suitable for the tubing
1 250ml bottle of Pond Water Dechlorination Treatment
1 250ml bottle of Blanket Weed and Algae Control
1 100g tub of Tetra Floating Food Sticks for Fish

Tools and other materials you might need.

For the excavation ...

Spade, shovel, straight edge and spirit level (or very long spirit level).
6 x 25kilo bags of soft sand or pieces of old carpet

For covering the pond liner around the edge

Suitable flat stone, brick, set of pavers: the quantity will depend upon their size. Bear in mind they will have to reach around the circumference of the pond, which will be over 7 metres in length (nearly 24ft).
If the choice of edging consists of fairly small units then they will have to be cemented into place around the edge. This can be done with 4 x 25kilo bags of Readimix cement mortar, or 3 x 25kilo bags of sharp sand and 1 x 25kilo bag of cement.

Instructions by PeterJ.May2006-03-16. To learn a lot more about how to create the perfect pond. Your whole family will suddenly find a new exciting interest in the garden as a whole. Peter May also has sites showing previous water feature plan sketches as well as a site about solving pond problems

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