Until recently, the owners of country sites did not attach great importance to the decorative design of the household territory, and the very material goal was pursued in the form of a rich harvest. Now everything is with legs on the head: the cherished weaves do not overload the beds, but they organize the space so that tomatoes-cucumbers and aesthetics peacefully got alongside.

The charm of the transparent state of a pond, sparkling in the rays of the stream, refreshing the fountain spray difficult to convey words - it is better to build right away! Yes, it is the man-made lake today a favorite of any cottage: at least effort and money, the maximum pleasure in the ribbon summer day. Is it a decorative pond in the photo does not make your heart score to rapidly?

Options for creating a decorative reservoir in the garden

More recently, the ponds arranged "on conscience" - from a monolithic thorough concrete, to work with which experts were invited. But the practice showed how much time consuming and is impracticious to this method of decoration of the site: adverse weather conditions in time inevitably deform the material, on its repair or disassembly, as, however, and to build a lot of funds.
Today, the garden rules Handmade. The decorative pond in the garden can independently build any, would be a desire!

Pond from finished shape

If you want to quickly and without much costs to become the owner of a beautiful reservoir, this option is for you. All you need is to buy a frost-resistant fiberglass form suitable for you. The winding streamlined shores of small forms fell in love with dacnis.

By purchasing a form, be sure to compare the size of the future reservoir with the size of the site. Keep in mind that the finished pond visually will seem smaller than its form when buying. Water in large form warms up longer, thanks to this, it will be clogged and blooming it will not be so soon, like small artificial reservoirs.

Well, if the plastic form is prudently divided into separate areas for the dilution of aquatic plants. Otherwise, the plants first plant in special containers, and then placed in water filled with water to the depth of them.

Plastic decorative pond looks quite like this, if it is properly installed and arranged.

Film pond

To create a decorative reservoir on sale there are special films from polyvinyl chloride, rubber or butyl rubber. PVC film is the most inexpensive, but if you do not suck, and buy material is more expensive, it will quickly last from 10 to 20 years.

Films are different thickness. For example, for a reservoir, a depth of more than 1.5 m film material should be at least 1.5 mm in thickness. The color of the material determines the general view of the pond. Dark film - black or brown color - perfectly imitates the natural bottom soil. In such a pond, it will be clearly reflected in the sky and vegetation lined along the coast. Light film - cream, blue - does not pursue the goal to give a reservoir more natural look, it bribes the contrast. Against the background of the light bottom, bright fish, motley pebbles and juicy green plants look spectacularly.

The film for the pond is better to lay when the thermometer column shows more than 20 ° C heat, then the coating elastic from the heat can be easily repaid in any form of the pit.
It is necessary to recognize that with PVC film, you can easily cope with yourself, but the laying and welding of more expensive material (rubber) is better to entrust professionals.

General recommendations for the preparation for the creation of a decorative pond

1. The reservoir should not occupy more than 1/10 of the part of the total area of \u200b\u200bthe site. The optimal depth for the pond is 0.5 - 0.6 m, but if you plan to settle the fish there, increase the numbers to 1.5 - 2 m. Strongly rugged line of the shore of the pond will become a stumbling block when laying a film.
2. The small swampy reservoir is better organized on the surface with a slope. A plot where there is an arms or beam, will decorate a miniature lake with a streaming stream and a cascade of the waterfall.
3. Great influence on the decorative pond can be rendered, if they are located in close proximity to its bottom. The frozen winter groundwater is lifted by reservoir, thereby provoking it.
4. So that with the process of supplying communications (water and power supply) there was no difficulty, the pond makes not far from home.
5. Locate the water under the tree - not the best idea. Crow from the crown (branches, leaves) will quickly clog the pond, and the root tree system can damage the film or lift the shape.
6. Do not possess the pond under the open sunshine - the water will quickly evaporate. Well, if the first half of the day, the reservoir is under the sun, and the second one is in the half.
7. Be sure to determine the desired style of the pond - this will task the direction to your further actions. The shape of the landscape reservoir is arbitrary, is limited to natural stones and is as close as possible to natural species. A regular pond has a correct form, a curb or tiled edge is decorated.
8. The most pleasant eye pond is with a shallow coastal area or with a swampy coastal zone.

How to make a decorative pond

Of the hard form

1. At the selected place, set the shape, with the help of rails and ropes, sketches the contours of the future pond by adding another 15-20 cm to this area, to then plug artificial sand. From the ground of the marked territory, remove the turf and dig the land in several goals - first Make a hole under the first plane, then, not forgetting about the markup, dig the ground to the depths of the remaining planes.
2. The recess for each plane is well crumpled and sink, after selecting all the stones and roots from there. For a high-quality installation of a tank for a pond, a pit must be dug a little wider and deeper by 10 - 15 cm than the form itself. It is necessary to set the form smoothly, make sure that Waterpas and the rule. Fill with water approximately the third part of the artificial pond. Side space between the walls of the pit and shapes, pour sand and soil. So that the container has become tightly, the sand and soil mixture wash the water.
3. The soil around the form can settle - two or three days regularly water the earth near the pond with water from the hose. Then you can land coastal plants, fully add water into the shape and put water plants in the pond.
   For the design of the coastline, an indispensable thing is a decorative film for the pond. Decorative pebbles type decorative pebbles are glued onto it, it can successfully imitate crushed stone or gravel, beautifully framing the reservoir.

From film

In addition to the film, you can not do without:

• geotextile or felt coating;
• means for gluing and repairing the film;
• containers for water colors;
• artificial film for coastal zone.

Getting to work.

• Step 1. Digging the pit, alternate ledgers and descents - this trick will make the shores of the pond are resistant. The width of the terrace should be about 30 cm, no less, and the steepness of each slope is not more than 45 °. Please note that you need to dig up for 15 cm more than planned depth of the future pond. These extra centimeters will take the ramble layers of rubble (5 cm) and sand (at least 10 cm).

• Step 2. Geotextile or special felt of the bottom of the recreation can be submitted only when carefully choose all the stones and roots from there. After a thorough rambling of the bottom, proceed to work with the coating. The canvas in the catlery spread overlaps, put the film for the pond on top, pre-kept it under the right sunlight at least two hours. Commier in advance so that the canvas of the film are enough for the entire area of \u200b\u200byour pit. If the film is not a whole, glue its individual parts with special glue.

• Step 3. Spread the film so smoothly as possible. Using the hose, fill in with water one third of the pond. Finally destroy the water in 2.5 - 3 hours. It is necessary so that the film is stretched gradually under the severity of water.

• Step 4. Cut extra centimeters on the top edge of the film, then what remains, twist in the roller. Now you can proceed to the most pleasant part of the work - decorating. It offers a ready-made coastline in the form of a film with a coarse sandy embankment, a rubble coating or pebbles. Do not forget to inhabit the water from waterflora, pre-placed in special containers.

Organization of artificial lighting for the pond

The design of the decorative pond with backlight is one of the important components of its attractiveness. On the most demanding taste on sale there are terrestrial, underwater and floating lamps.

Flashlights working under water are attached to the mounting plate, their cords are masked by pebble pebbles. A very spectacular spectacle can be achieved with the help of four submarine lamps with different power with light filters, adjusting the angles of their inclination so as to achieve maximum aesthetics.

Floating lamps create a fabulous effect - among water colors and plants on a mirror stroy of the pond, they look like a fireflies.

In terms of unusual lighting, special lamps are also interesting, which shine brightly, but not blind. They are installed on the bottom of the reservoir, a rack with light bulbs can be adjusted by 4 levels of height, only the cap design peeps over the surface of the water. The lamp highlights the bottom and fish.

Tools for cottage reservoir

The normal functioning of the manual reservoir in the garden provides the following technical devices and accessories:

1. Pump, pumping water for the winter period, can also be used for regular partial replacement of water in the pond. Do not missed and immediately acquire a powerful pump that will serve you several times longer than a low-power water purification system (for example, JEBAO JKP-55000, JEBAO JSP-40,000). There will also be no superfluous mounting plate for the pump immersed in water.
2. Radiosset. They are needed for the operation of the pump, fountain or sources of electric light.
   Special hoses for the arrangement of water bodies.
3. UV radiation lamps, bio filtration installations, if you plan to keep fish into the pond.
4. Inventory for cleansing the surface of the pond from dirt in the form of twigs, leaves brought by wind of the Sora, the waste of the inhabitants of the pond. It is represented by chips, ponds, skimmers, vacuum cleaners for water bodies, special scissors and devices for cleaning the bottom.

How to contain a country pond in order

Becoming the happy owner of the "quiet creek", be prepared for the fact that with improper care water in the pond can bloom. Water purification system can help out. But for many average daches, this is unattainable luxury. Fortunately, you can cope with the problem. Everything you need is a small hysliga bag of the upper peat. This agent placed under water will save the bottom of the algae.

From time to time, part of the reservoir must be merged and pouring new water. A small reservoir on the winter is dried, and at least three times a year, a solid general cleaning with full water pumping is needed. The pond needs your constant attention and participation: regularly remove garbage from the surface of water, the remains of plants, maintain the original volume of water. Since October-November, put on the surface of the pond, the grid, which will become an obstacle for falling leaves capable of a dense layer in the reservoir. Vegetation that will remain in the pond for the winter, place on the deepest areas of the reservoir.

Important advice! In studuy frosts, excessive cutting of ice deforms and spoils plastic shapes and a film. To protect the material from destruction, be sure to leave on the surface that did not have time to frozen the pond screw the plastic bottles on the surface.