The Water Bed Frame and “We’ve Sprung a Leak” – Damn- Stage 15

The water bed frame is in and we’ve had to put in a second layer of the pool liner becasue we sprung a leak, damn…

Ready for the sand to be compacted for the ‘Water Bed’ – Stage 14

The sump tank is in, the concrete pad has set over it so we’re ready for the sand to be compacted and levelled over the whole area for the ‘water bed’.

Stage 12 and 13 in the Pool to Pond Conversion

The concrete pad goes on to the sump tank for the water bed in the aquaponics pool to pond conversion.

This is the before and prepping video.

and this is the after it’s set and sand is all levelled.

The sand is all in the pool to pond conversion

The sand is all in, yippee!

OMG, that was 37 m3 of dirt, made up of 25 cubic metres of clean fill and 12 cubic metres of clean yellow for the top fill. I moved about 5 cubes by hand. Let’s just hope I compacted it enough…

Another Step in the Pool to Pond – Stage 10

Ready after the Bobcat for all the backfill to go in behind the false wall.

A New Wall On the New Pond – Stage 3

The deep end of the pool is finally backfilled so we can form the new wall for the new aquaponics pond to be.

The dimensions will be about 3.5 meters long and the width is about 4.2 metres. Depth is about 1.4 meters at the deeper end and 1.0 metre in the shallow end. I figure it to be about 17,000 litres. You’ll see the begininng of the framework in the video.

The Pool to Pond Adventure moves forward – a bit. Stage 2…

Peter Butler’s Pool to Pond Adventure moves forward to stage 2 in our pool to pond conversion and adventure. See the video here…

Peter Butler’s Pool to Pond Adventure – Stage 1

We were losing about 12mm of water a day, every day. It was costing us a fortune so being responsible I set about to find out where it was going. I guessed that the light was the suspect and after draining the water to below the light fitting. I was right, it was now only losing 6 mm of water a day… what a pain, oh well, half way there.

We continued to drain to where i suspected the was an issue in te shallow end of the poool. It was all going well until the pool pump wouldn’t pick up the watre because of the height diffence. being the inventive fell aI am I used aan old pond pump and dropped it a little more. It was all good until the drain that was a couple of metres away from the pool blocked up and the water backed up over the pavers around the pool.

Well, you can imagine what happened next, the water filtered through the pavers and the sand on the outside of the pool got heavier until… Bang!

So this is the journey of transforming our money hungry pool into a food producing aquaponics centre

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