#Thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210418
Electrics and hydraulics hum along now unattended and without any thought.
No more mentions until we add a pump or a panel or…
We lived with the partially screened in filter for a week.
It didn’t feel quite right and it looked ‘wrong’, and long.
So we bit the bullet and tried to dig where last week we hit rock - about a foot closer in to the pad..
We managed to chip away at what we now know is a buried concrete fence post.
With that on one side and the rock pad on the other, we had to literally pull out the dirt by hand to get any depth.
We managed just 16” which should be enough.
The second rear hole was easy. No rocks. We think that’s a first on this property.
We removed the slats and pulled the posts.
Then we took the filter tower down and moved it closer to the jasmine bed wall.
Sunk the posts in the new holes, cut the slats down to size and reinstalled it all.
It’s now much more proportional.
Feeding time at the pond:
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