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Looks great. Much better than my brick work.

What sort of bricks are those? I haven't seen them before.

The bricks are called fast wall bricks theyre used for all the internal walls over here in W.A because most houses are double brick over here. The last 2 rows are a different type of brick that why they look a bit different. I got them all for free to as they were all left overs from work.
Can you believe the builders put the left over bricks in the skip bins on site because it costs them more to move them to different sites than to just buy new ones. Pretty disgusting really considering how much pollution the brick works create just buy making them

Well... That's a bit fancy.

Hi everyone

I had half a day off work today so i finally got all the render finished on my pond. Its been a really wet spring this year and i really wanted to finish this before summer turns up but it looks like its clearing up finally


Wet render pushed on

The finished product





Now i can screed the floor hopefully this weekend and waterproof it

1 more photo

G'day MatyH, mate the build looks awesome.

What are the recesses for, some sort of climbing structure?

Its going to be one smick system

Muzza

Really neat and stylish looking system so far, looking forward to more photos.

Hey Muzza
The recesses are waterfalls you can see the pvc pipe cut in at the top i'm gonna have a separate small pump for that so i can run it when ever. I might put some nice stone in there for the water to ripple over

Cheers MatyH If only I had read your first post again. Separate control on the waterfall is a good idea as it gets noisy. My system is 30m from the house and I can hear it running and my hearing is rooted.

Yeah Muzz i wanna try and make it go stealth mode if need be i'm gonna try and make some sort of insulated cover for the siphons when it gets to that point

Update
With the clear weather over the weekend i screeded off the pond floor to get it level and smooth.
The best part about it was i could finally pack away my cement mixer and start cleaning up some of the mess around the side of the house

Hey MatyH, impressed with the quality of the work - good stuff buddy.

Martin.

Then after work i waterproofed it








probably best to wear gloves nevermind it'll come off with my skin cells

Thanks martinC its getting there