How to make a pond from the old bath

Do not rush to throw out the old bath, it can still come in handy for the decoration of the garden or giving. You can make an interesting pond from the bath with your own hands, for this you need a minimum of materials and a maximum of fantasy.

Bath Requirements

To serve as long as possible, it is necessary to place it on the plot correctly:

1. The pond should not be under the right rays of the sun most of the day. It is desirable that it is covered not more than 8 hours a day.
2. But too darkened the pond, too, do not need to build. If, with a large light, it can be reborn into the swamp alive, then during life in the shadows, all living things in it will just die.
3. It is not necessary to cost the water under the trees, otherwise it will constantly have leaves and trash.
4. No need to build a pond in places where there are strong drafts.

Experts advise to make a pond from the bath not far from the building or in the red corner of the garden. In the lowland terrain, it also does not need to install it and extremely undesirable so that underground water passes nearby. The place should be with solid soil, well, if it is clay and sand. And in the winter at the place of installation of the reservoir, snow should lie so that the fish in the water do not extinct.

Materials and pit for the pond

To embody the idea of \u200b\u200ba pond from an old bath in reality, it is necessary:

1. Bath for pond.
2. Cement.
3. Sand.
4. Crushed stone or gravel.
5. Metal grid.
6. Clay.
7. Steel wire.
8. Large stones.

The depth of the pit must be 30 cm more than the height of the bath itself, so that it is completely immersed in the soil and the top edge did not look out. Especially this fact must be taken into account when building a pond on a lawn or another smooth surface. The Earth needs to immediately endure as wells, if it is fertile, then you can put the flower beds. If the soil is clay, then it needs to be collected in a bunch and hide from the rain, it will still need it.
After the pit is dug, it is necessary to remove the turf around it and proceed the ditch of about 30 cm deep and width. Place the tank in the pit. To do this, you will need help friends or winches. After the bath is in place, you need to check with the help of a level, whether it is installed horizontally. If everything is fine, then sanding the slots so that the container stood firmly.

Bath transformation in pond

You will need:

• cement stamping capacity;
• bucket;
• scoop or trowel;
• passatia for wire;
• scissors for cutting grid;
• glue, which glue the tile.

Proceedings:

1. Dilute with water, according to the instructions, glue with the cement base. If you have glue, it turned out white, you need to put a dark-colored pigment to it. As a result, you must have a mixture of a tough consistency. Please note that it is very quickly mounted, therefore work should be done without distracting.
2. Dress on gloves and manually apply glue to the entire surface of the bath, first on the walls, and then, that will remain - to the bottom. It should not be especially worried that the glue lies with uneven layers, so even it will be better. All actions can be performed either on the bottom of the tank, or lying on the ground near it. It can be smeared with glue surface even before lowering the bath in the pit, but then there is a chance of damage to the surface. The meaning of the whole procedure is that the bath becomes natural earthen color, and has more like a natural pond. Alternatively, instead of glue, you can take a cement solution, but this work is more complicated, since the mixture will be drained along the walls.
3. Now you need to waiver the grid. You can take a solid piece, and you can small pieces. It depends on the mesh form. It needs to cover the top edge and walls to the middle of the tank.
4. In the corners of the bath, tie a perpendicular to the wall of the rings from the wire, in the future shelves will be attached.
5. Pour dry clay on the bottom of the bath, layer thickness - 3 cm.
6. Dilute clay with water so that it turns out a thick casher, and to deceive the walls of the bath.
7. In the clay, plant moisture and not very whimsical plants, such as mint or a mother-and-stepmother in the top of the wall of the future pond.
8. Wait a few hours while clay will dry and you can fill in the bath with water. Water needs to be allowed a thin flowing of the hose, you can put on a splashing nozzle, putting on the bottom so as not to destroy the clay layer.
9. In a ditch, which goes around the perimeter of the reservoir, you need to put marsh plants that love moisture, and put stones that will create the feeling of shores. When the water in the pond fills, part of it always overflows across the edges and moisturizes these plants.

Pond decoration

The pond from the old bath itself is a decoration of the site, similar to those can be seen in the photo, but it can be made more interesting. For this you need:

1. Conduct underwater backlight, then the pond will fascinate with its lights in the dark. This effect is achieved thanks to mini-spotlights, they are put under water, it is not expensive, and the mood creates excellent.
2. Welding highlighting. To do this, install LED lamps next to the pond, you can also use halogen illuminators. In addition to the fact that they comply with safety requirements, they are also the most economical lighting devices.
3. To build a fountain inside the pond, for this you need a pump that is overwhelmed and underwater and differs not only to the place where it is located, but also the height of the jets.

Anyone, even the most beautifully designed pond on the cottage from the bath will look not so picturesque as the one in which there is something from wildlife. You can land the plants into the ground on the bottom of the tank, and you can leave them on the water, and hide the roots in the pots with the ground. Near the pond needs to plant high plants, well, if you have a root of the root, then the reservoir will take a natural look. Lilies and pitches look harmoniously on the water, they still have one dignity: they do not need Earth, they grow on the water.

A business card of any pond is a row, even artificially created reservoirs are not insured against its appearance. Nobody landing on a row, it grows with the bloom of water over time. And if the rod has appeared, it must be controlled because it will capture the entire pond.
Always collects around himself visitors with reservoirs with fish. You need to choose them in a specialized store and before buying it is necessary to ask the consultant, what kinds of fish can live in a small water space and do not be enjoyed among themselves.
Do not forget to constantly care for the reservoir. It needs to be brushing from excess vegetation and remove garbage and leaves from the surface.

Pond winter

Artificial reservoir from the bath, as a rule, freezes in the winter to the bottom. Therefore, with the onset of the first night frosts, all living creatures and vegetation from it must be moved to the winter to another place. After that, out of the pond pump all the water. If there are some pipelines, they need to be thought out and clog. And the walls and the bottom are well cleaned. After that, leave the pond until spring alone.
If for some reason you can't dry the pond to the cold or you want to leave it unchanged, then the experienced owners of such reservoirs advise to gain in several plastic sand bottles to half, spin the plug and put in the bath. In the frost, these bottles will take on the pressure of ice, and the pond will remain as much. Per 1 sq.m. The reservoir needs one such a bottle.
In specialized stores, you can store such an aerator, it enriches water with oxygen, which is especially important in winter. You can also put a special heater in the pond, then the water in it will definitely not freeze. If you do not have the opportunity to buy new equipment, it is enough to constantly watch the pond in strong frosts, and to pull hot water into the wormuck so that it does not freeze to the bottom, so you can save the fish life. And be sure to see the pond be under a large layer of snow, there is always a plus temperature, even in tall frost.

Useful advice

1. Do not buy and do not pick up a snail in the reservoir, these mollusks will swell the walls of the bath, and the pond will lose their naturalness.
2. No need to clean and change the water too often, this is not aquarium with perfect water.
3. No need to buy caras for a pond, they prefer to go into clay on the bottom, and the water from them will be more turbid.
4. For an artificial pond, fish are ideally suited - the ridks, they purify the surface of the water stroit, including from mosquitoes, jumping out of the water.
5. It is not necessary to drain the water in the pond, it only needs to fill it in two weeks. Let the water be poured over the edge to moisturize and plants around the reservoir.
6. Unusually looks in the garden Pond from a little children's bath. It will take two times less time and effort.
7. If you have a few baths, you can arrange a cascade of water bodies on your garden plot.

In short, if you have an unnecessary cast iron bath and a bit of free time and fantasy, then with a minimum of financial costs you can create a beautiful place to relax.