Pond Fountain Info

POND KITS

1. When you are comparing pond kits, what are you looking for?We are not going to talk about individual brands of pond kits. There are too many brands and without buying them, I don’t have access to compare them. I will address the individual components such as liner, pumps, filters, chemicals and price. Another important component that will be addressed is the quality of the instructions.

2. How can you compare prices of the multitude of pond kits that are out there?
I can’t, but you can and should. There is a wide range of product vs. price. Look at any guarantees there may be for liner and pump. With many pond kits, it is as cheap or cheaper to buy the components individually rather than as a kit. What you don’t get are the fancy packaging and lousy instructions.

3. How important are the instructions included in the pond kit?

Hopefully, the most important object in any pond kit are the instructions, either written or video. Many pond kit instructions, I am convinced, are written by people who have not built many, if any, ponds. If possible, ask to see the instructions or watch the video before you buy anything.
a) Do the instructions make sense to you?
b) Do they answer any questions you already have?
c) Do they give an honest discussion of maintenance or do skim over it? If they were not honest enough to discuss maintenance, why do you think their discussion about construction would be any more complete?
d) Do they mention that if you use the dirt from the hole for the waterfall it needs to well compacted or in a year the water will sideways or backwards? I thought not.
e) A good pond design includes digging a step around the pond about 3 inches below the water level. This is so when the rock are placed on it the bottom of the rocks are underwater. This looks better as you don’t see a ring of liner above the water and the liner is not exposed directly to the sun.

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Thank you!

Jim Wilder

# posted by Jim Wilder @ 10:17 AM