I'M BUILDING A POND!! So i can swim with my aquarium fish - part 3

Whoo, we got some changes some updates for you guys now the pond is Tremendously different than what I had initially Planned obviously ideally you would dig a hole you would line it with an underlayment then drop in the liner But I wasn't prepared for how bad the dirt here was it's mostly rocks and jutted surfaces It's not really clay or anything like that So I decided we were going to build a Frame on the inside so we didn't even have to worry about the rocks or anything and in doing so Originally the pond was supposed to be 16 feet long and of course 10 feet wide Because we have the structure in here now though we lost 2 feet length and 2 feet width So it's now 14 feet internal dimensions. It's 14 feet by 10 or sorry by 8 feet However, we went a foot deeper well technically we came a foot out of The out of the ground it was initially supposed to be 5 feet deep and the hole technically is but I built the framing up So we would get 6 feet of depth that of course we're gonna build the deck all the way around it That's literally going to be right on top of it and over So far Let me see last thing one of the last things we've of course did was build the framing And I lined it all in plywood Capped it off with some 2x6. This is all pressure treated lumber. It's fine in the ground for like 30 years I think it's rated for something like that. That'd be long past my time I you know, I'm probably only got 20 years left in who knows 30 years seems like a really long time But that's dropped in now and then for the underlayment I didn't order it I forgot to I thought I did And I guess it just well technically I did order it and it just didn't come I wasn't built for it either though So anyways, I went to a local hardware store and picked up some old Carpet underlay so this stuff is like a half-inch thick sponge material This is just going to absorb any rocks or anything that might be on the surface of the ground I'm not worried about the sides though. That's why would then of course the pond liners here weighs about 300 pounds I don't know how I'm gonna get it in there But I have to figure something out and once the liners in I'm gonna backfill it with that Wheelbarrow over there The plan is to just get it in there somehow and wiggle it around It's not a tutorial You Just went ahead Toss it over the side left some up and now I just got to pull it up over all the corners it's super heavy and Super hot so imagine picking up something that's really uncomfortable to pick up because it's so heavy and difficult to move around And smells like rubber and burns your hands every time you try to touch it Yeah Do you like aquariums do you? Tell you one thing though, it's awfully nice to walk on this I don't know how I'm gonna get out of here Look what I found Oh Little frog welcome to my amphibian channel Whoo I did it myself I I do it myself All right liners in for the most part I personally find having a few inches of water in there helps to smooth it out put it some weight on the corners and whatnot so I'm just gonna put you know, maybe a couple hundred gallons in there and I'm able to smooth the bottom out a lot easier and Have the corners fill up. You don't want any sort of drooping edges Otherwise when it fills all that pressure is just gonna burst right through the liner. You want it to be smooth But the entire thing this is a difficult thing to do is have any a rectangular or a square sized pond because You do get a bunch of this overlap. I'll have to cut it and glue it But I think the main focus today is Get the liner in smooth it out have all the sides. I'm not worried about the corners back fill it and begin to fill it And then get to work on the deck that's gonna go around it figure out what I'm gonna do for the filtration obviously I decided I would go ahead and almost complete the pond before installing filtration, which I I Know what I'm going to do now, and it's most likely going to be drilled with bulkheads and whatnot Which is as simple and easy as drilling right through adding bulkheads and then filtration on the other side I also have a couple skimmers coming. I don't know if I'll use the skimmers or not I don't know time will tell I love I love these types of builds where it keeps changing and challenging me I I don't mind if everything goes perfectly, but I got to tell you I have way more fun And it's way more exciting and challenging if I have some problems And if I got to make some adjustments and changes I prefer that much more than everything going smoothly. I don't know maybe I'm just weird