#Preformed pond crack#

You can cut holes very easy and it will accept silicone on the inside as long as you clean the area real good. and that is just the pond only.Ĭustomer wants buy a pond and cut 1.5” holes in one of your ponds for tubing. The weight of this pond is somewhere around 12 to 14 lbs. The plastic will always be thicker around the top and then it gets thinner as it goes down which makes it hard to say exactly what the wall thickness is but I would say as thick as.

Our ponds are vacuum formed which means we stretch the hot plastic sheet across the mold and then draw it down into the pond cavity mold. Yes ours can with stand the Minnesota/New England winters! It is made using polyethylene plastic and this can withstand almost any climate out there! It never hurts to drain it but most likely it will just fill back-up over the winter months and no, you do not need to take this indoors. If it's a polyethylene pond it has the ability to flex some. I would recommend leaving the pond filled so it's less likely to heave out of the ground with thawing & freezing of the ground around the pond. Is it better to leave the water in the pond and let it freeze or drain it with ground frost heave on the sides of the liner?

I'm going to pull the pump and drain the lines for the winter. I bought a hard preformed liner and built a pond in Minnesota. Flame treating is simply briefly running a flame across the area the sealant would be used at. However, If I were installing a bottom drain I would use a bulkhead fitting with a good sealant & would flame treat that area for better adhesion. Let me start off by saying it’s not recommended. If a customer wants to put a bottom drain to turn one of your ponds into a turtle pond for this customer, how do you suggest doing that? Using a Bottom Drain kit or just a bulkhead fitting? Any suggestions? If you can locate the hole when the pond is empty you could flame treat the area around the hole & seal it with a water proof silicone.

#Preformed pond crack#

The polyethylene material does not deteriorate so there must be a crack or hole somewhere. Uh-oh - my pond developed a leak somehow. The weight of the water would definitely make it collapse. The walls of the preformed pond are about ¼” at the thickest which is at the top. If he means to only support the rim and have nothing below it that will definitely not work. Would the pond be strong enough for this? Customer wants to put Remanoid pond in his house and support it with a structure that would support the ledge all the way around but he cannot back-fill it.