Recent content by Saifu

Not a pensioner yet, but I still recall the good old days of normal consumption and waste of sponges. Early 20th Century: Sponge harvesting was a significant industry, with high catches and lucrative markets. Mid-20th Century: The introduction of synthetic sponges in the 1950s significantly...

Shows how little I know. Our urban world seems to be mostly plastic.

Most pond liners are smooth how will I get the aquatic plants to secure themselves?

Carpet with foam underlay shouldn't have chemical. After all it is sponge which comes from seas?

Bear in mind I need a pond lining that will hold its own weight with near vertical sides and back filling soil to get a narrow border inside a walled enclosure. I had also considered rubber grass matting mesh but it is very costly for the coverage.

Is this the effect of when putting the soil inside the pond. Looks bit murly inside?

I can visualise it now. Carpets tend to be flexible but still hold their shape. Good plan. I just got to find some old carpet somewhere. Checking freecycle as I'm writing this.

Those ponds look massive. Don't know how you got hold of so much carpet.

Telephone directories as a pond fill. That's good use of useless paper.. At least now a days!

Old underlay or carpet sounds sensible. Was going to sift out any sharp stones leaving large pebbles, Spray soil base with water and line with concrete mix to shape like mud basin. How would you deal with the crumpled up pond liner that reached the top?

I've built a long pond enclosure out of broken up paving slabs 1.8m x 0.8m x 0.8m high Got some pond lining. Wondering how to shape it and build up a thin layer of soil up the vertical wall as it is already narrow. I've got lots of stone mixed in, but still doesn't seem like it will stay up...

Well my main question is related to those loose chippings. The base which is effectively a gritty mortar slab links my house to pavement. Resin over coating was the best thing I could think of to stop these chippings coming loose. Rain and moss is wearing down this mortar year by year. A thin...

Did you mean won't last due to the surface I have, the thickness or generally resin coatings are not long lasting?

Chisel wasn't sharp to start with really. Amazon purchase. Around 70% good reviews. Assumed they don't design them to cut salad. It's a retaining wall leaning out on top, towards the last 2 or 3m with vertical cracks in two places. I dug out he soild behind the wall. I've rebuilt 1m2 section...

SDS drill sounds possible. Wonder if cheaper one for £60 would be effective or bits would just go blunt. Maybe tricky to hold drill and pieces of slab?