DIY koi dam !

DIY koi dam !

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Where to start by DIY building a koi dam !

        No.1: You must find the right spot in your garden where you whant to build your koi dam !

        No.2: You must decide what shape, depth and desing you want to make your koi dam !

        No.3: Now you can start by digging the hole in the ground !

        No.4: The next you do is to biuld up the edge of the dam with onionbags that you fil with ground ,so that you can the dam wil stand out of the ground a bit !      
No.5: The next thing you do is ,that you must put in your drain and lead the pipe to the water settelment chamber   !                     

                                                                                                                                                        
 No.6: You start lining out the dam with birds wire !              
                                                                                                                                  
No.7: Now you start with mixing  the cement ( 4 crusterdust to 1cement) and now you start applying the cement to the wire in the dam by about 50mm thick !


No.8:Now you can put cement blocks on the edge of the dam !
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No.9: You can also build a waterfall
No. 10: Now you can finishing the dam by putting some rocks on the side of the dam !

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