How to build a pond waterfall?

If you want to build a waterfall, we advise you, when digging your pond, to recover some earth to make the outline, a small mound of earth which has approximately the dimensions of your waterfall, taking care to pack everything down well

You're in a rush? you can always moisten everything with a garden hose or let it rain on your mound to speed up the compaction of the soil. It is very important for the longevity of your work to let the soil settle.

Then, dig the shape of your waterfall by making small basins to have 2 or even 3 water reservoirs which will allow you later to put plants.

Then lay an EPDM tarp with a geotextile on the ground. You can then build the stones directly on the EPDM tarpaulin with compaktuna-based cement. The best is to provide the tarpaulin in one piece otherwise you can always glue it or even superimpose it but in this case it is necessary to provide 50 to 80 cm of overlap so as not to have a leak by capillarity

Then comes the placement of the stones; always make this placement without cement to see if everything is ok and do not forget that the water always passes by the shortest path Once all the stones are placed blank, and that you like it of course, because there you can always go back, you can attack the cement bonding part

For the cement I used 1 shovelful of cement, 1 of lime and 3 of sand, the lime helps to keep elasticity and to hold frost.

and don't forget to alternate large and small stones in your waterfall to be more realistic, large stones, if you look in nature, are often found at the bottom of the waterfall

then do not forget the 3 weeks of drying so that there is no problem with the parameters of your pool, and your fish

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