Hard Digging day!!

Yesterday was a real hard digging day!!
Decided to dig out the foundations of the Glasshouse ready for the floor to go in before the glasshouse arrives.

I've said the glasshouse is arriving next week so many times that no one believes me anymore - but it is really really close now and we need to get the flooring in - drains and dolomite, sand, weed membrane and paving or flagstones - And the big question is should we try and get flagstones and all the benefits that that entails or should we use use small blocks!.

Anyway the plan was to get the pond in!!!
But first we needed to get the ground prepared - the top of the pond has to be level. When you think about it this makes sense. The water will float out to being level and the liner really has to be under water otherwise it will perish in the sunlight. So that means that the sides of the pond all have to be the same height. You may have noticed that the site is in general not that level and the part where the pond is is no more level than the rest of the site.!!!

This meant building up a considerable amount on the lower side. which meant a lot of manual hard landscaping - lucky we'd already decided to dig out around the foundations, which gave us a ready source of soil with which to build up the edges.

And all the stones, sharp bits and anything that might Pierce the lining had to be removed. take out one stone and another three appear.

Check out our facebook page with all the pictures and video of us stomping down the edges of the pond. Not sure how to put a link to the facebook page from here though. maybe send me an email and I'll send you an invite from the page.