Water Gardening: Should I install bottom drain in pond re-do?, 1 by pondlove

pondlove wrote:
I received a written estimate in the mail yesterday for the pond clean out. I almost fainted! He wants $716.50 (he had to add that 50 cents... really??).

It's time to get my waders on and do it myself. I really wanted to start off the new pump and veggie filter with a sparkling clean pond, but there's no way I'm shelling out that much hard-earned money to get rid of fish poop.

On the upside of the project, a friend of mine who is mechanically skilled is going to help me install my equipment and build the veggie filter. Bless him. I'll be going to Lowe's on Friday to buy the PVC pipe and fittings, etc. for the filter. Hopefully he can accomplish most of it this weekend.

Oops! I intended to post another photo of the pond, but ended up with Spanky instead.