Hi everyone,
When I lived in Michigan, I had a 700 gallon pond built from 3 preforms run together. I left the pond, fish, everything behind when we moved to Minnesota 2 years ago.
Now a neighbor and I are going to build a new pond in his yard. We want to go much larger and use a liner, but I've never done liners and he's never done ponds.
What is everyone's experience with liners? I hear that rubber roof liner is safe for fish and much cheaper than "pond" liner - is this true?
Would really appreciate some help!
Thank you!
Sylvi
debating pond liners
I priced rubber roof liner and it was not any cheaper.
Yes it is safe for ponds, fish ect, I have a couple friends who have large ponds with it.
I bought a liner on Ebay.
I think it was a 60 mil. It is very thick whatever it was, and I was pleased with it.
I have a 1200 gallon pond, prefab upper wuit a waterfall into the 900 gallon lower liner pond.. been running 3 years.. I found the pond liner better to customize with plant ledges, and deeper so I leave fish out all winter. I used 2 cheap tarps under to cushin and 3 pieces of a 25 foot wide roll of 20 mil black plastic.. I think it all came in around 200 bucks with the pump-pond kit for the waterfall... the 60 mil sold at the pond stores looked perfect but the size i wanted would have been 200 bucks or so if i remember right before everything else .. I never had a problem with the layered 20 mil just bought a whole roll and layed it in till I ran out - no regrets the pond is beautiful...
-joe-
I really need to spell check.........
regular black plastic will work, except it won't last for long because it is not UV resistant and the sun will break it down in a few years.
The pond liner have 15 or 20 yr warranties. You should still use carpet, sand ect even with a pond liner though, so rocks won't damage it.