Man, i just spent the last two days ripping it out and starting again. Theres no way i can buy a kit here and it really is way more difficult than you make it look. Thanks for all the tips and inspiration. I just gave up today, ready to get a concrete truck to fill it all in. Good to come inside and watch this vid.
Please don't give up, thank you for being open with your comment, its not about buying a kit. I just believe if you have the right components its easy. What has been the most difficult part of your build? Turn that
@@ThePondAdvisor i think the hardest part was getting enough drop in a short distance. My gardens only 4m long. Also getting the stones placed. They always end up 20mm above the water level. Working in tropical clay mud is no joy either. Thanks for your encouragement, it really helps.
I just wanted to thank you for your videos. I'm in Tennessee, USA and am a first time garden waterfall/pond builder. Your videos have been incredibly helpful.
Ahhhh thanks for calling me out!! I now can’t wait to watch the other 2 parts. Some great techniques shared. Just what I have been searching for and need to brave my first pondless. After watching you all these years you make it look so easy and I know it’s not!! Finally a simple guide that I understand. Thank you for listening and taking time to go back to basics
It’s easy to build a waterfall, it’s making it look good that’s the hardest part. It does take practice. I can’t wait to see your first water feature it’s going to be ten times better than my first feature. 5 months and counting for a 2020 waterfall build. Like this comment or Charlotte comment if you want to watch this Journey of her first waterfall build.
Some excellent tips there Mark. Thank you. My son looked at me gone out when I was telling him how to use a shovel. Going to show him this vid now just to show him dad is right! 😂 looking forward to the next 🍻
lol its funny we find it hard taking advice sometime from loved ones, I was the same. Its hard teaching my wife how to build a waterfall. Monday 6pm part two
These tutorials are exactly what I wanted. Never done one, but even I feel like I can do this! I have a small square garden and my idea is to have a pondless/rill/waterfall coming out from under a spillway attached underneath a floating seat placed along a fenced border between pleached trees. A flagstone paver will cross over it, leading to my deck and I’m toying with a fire pit to centrepiece it and serve the floating seat area, to offer a multi-use area. (I know, ambitious!) One of my main worries was the change of height to achieve the result I want. Your tutorials have helped me think about how this will all work in my small space. Wish you were closer to attend one of your courses. Northampton is too far from the South Coast.
I knew about putting the underlay down before the liner but never heard about putting it on top of the liner. It's OK that it gets continuously wet? It's not going to rot and fall apart and ruin all the work you did building your water feature? I am just about to rebuild my pond and want to do it the right way but am a little worried that putting the underlay on top of the liner may cause problems in the years to come.
I wish id known: Don't be too quick to trim the liner. Wait a week if you can. I wish i had of waited til it had rained once or twice. If you plant it, its much harder to pull it all out to fix it. Set each level with a stake or rock so you can get a level at each change in height.
I'd love to know how you'd go about adding a waterfall to an existing (raised from the garden level, but shelved left and right) concrete pond. I was tempted just to lap some liner over the edge of one of the raised sides, but worried the water will work it's way back up under there. Would I have to make some sort of a concrete spillway, or would it be OK with just liner? I don't really want an overhanging blade type thing which I guess would be the easiest way to do it.
ahh, i am wanting to build a waterWALL. i presume its similar, a basin, then posts either side, then some marine ply and im putting an acrylic mirror on that. do you sell, or any idea on then how i go about the tubing, or the top cascade, spillway or nozzles for the drip effect?
Thanks for reaching out I know the walls you are talking about. I would talk to a specialist I have supplied the gear for a reservoir for someone that had a design but never built a waterfall with acrylic. Only built them with staked stone with my own manifold
I did have to rip my waterfall apart. It was full of leaks. Please tell people to never have a join in the liner. After spending a fortune on rubber liner. I wanted to cry. I just about have it finished again today. Still not perfect. Not enough water in the reservoir. ( a dust bin) so now I’m having to narrow the stream and make spillways more shallow. I ordered a ton of river pebbles. They are way too small. Slipping into the reservoir. Needed chunky stones. So if your ever doing ponds gone wrong in Ireland, you know where to visit.
This is one of the reasons I highly recommended purchasing the waterfall kits. River pebbles, you need about 30% of the rock you use. If your using a ton or so of rock then all you need is 300kg of gravel/pebbles
I didn’t have the money. But when I see all the money I’ve wasted on liner and foam, it would have been cheaper to get the kit. Warning to others. If your serious about doing this; save yourself heartache, get the kit ! Also buy the foam gun! 🤪
@@anyat686 can you imagine the amount of money I have wasted on liner and foam (its the payment for a great education, worth every penny), I wish I got in front of you before you made these mistakes, your comment hopefully will also help others with the waterfall installation or building a similar water feature.
When are you running courses again Mark? Me and a friend might be interested. Also do you have receive any sort of accreditation once you've completed your courses. Thanks Matt.
Was wondering if you worked under the Aquascape umbrella, and provided Aquascape certification. No worries if not, we'd be very interested in attending in September.
Matthew Smith yes we help contractors with becoming certified, for more info please reach out via email. I would love to have a chat, the online courses and academy is a great place to start! We are the UK agents for aquascape
Thanks Mark, will be in touch soon. Love your videos, they've been amazing help getting me back into a hobby and hopefully possible career I enjoyed so much as a kid 👍
Hi Mark, is sandstone or gritstone bad for aquatic life. I have about 10 tonnes and am thinking of doing some kind of water feature but would like to have it flowing into a pool with fish in (i have a modern koi pond but want another natural looking feature).
Thomas Prendiville does the sand stone break down? Where did you get the stone from, has it been protected like in a wall or in the ground. If it’s old weathered stone it might be ok 👌🏻, you could always test a small feature way from the pool. The vinegar test is also another good one to use. Does the vinegar fizz if you put a little on the rock!
@@ThePondAdvisor there was a huge rockery at a house we bought and it was an eyesore so I ripped it out the house is 20 years old tbe the rockery is the stone left over from the build, i will try the (white?) Vinegar test and see what happens.
Yes, if it got any lime in the stone it will cause algae, if it’s been weathered you should be ok, but some sand and grit stones break down with the water, back into sand and grit
Hi great news about the training bud any idea if there any spaces on the ed baloue training and your training also people I'm very interested in this please
Eds event was postponed, so more info will be out the best thing to do is sign up for the news letter on the website we have a waterfall day in Semptember, £87.98 more details to come.
In my garden we have a tiny preformed pond installed by the previous homeowner. It goes green every year as soon as the sun starts shining. I want to build a much larger and deeper pond but I'm worried about putting in a pond liner due to a medium poplar tree nearby. I think a preformed pond would be better but I don't want to be limited to shape and size. Do you prefer pond liners or preformed and is there any liners you'd recommend for best quality?
1mm EPDM (.45mil in the US) I would protect the liner above and below. I don’t like preformed for the same reason, plus they are hard to install in the ground. Fine on a patio but hard to dig in and back fill and compact the soil.
Tracy Lewis currently we don’t have any book able events. We are based in Northamptonshire. Sign up to the newsletter on waterfeature.shop and stay turned to the channel.
Thank you for the feedback, we have a number of videos on building waterfall, a number of people gave feedback these were too short. Some people want real time other want overviews. Have you got what you need to start or continue with a project? If we produced another what length would you prefer?
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Thanks for watching, the other parts are coming out Monday at 6pm and Wednesday at 6pm
My liner is in and I'm ready to place the rocks for the waterfall so am going to hold off and wait for your next video.
@@ianhutch101 thank you for your time
Brilliant looking forward to part 2
thank you for watching
Man, i just spent the last two days ripping it out and starting again. Theres no way i can buy a kit here and it really is way more difficult than you make it look. Thanks for all the tips and inspiration. I just gave up today, ready to get a concrete truck to fill it all in. Good to come inside and watch this vid.
Please don't give up, thank you for being open with your comment, its not about buying a kit. I just believe if you have the right components its easy. What has been the most difficult part of your build? Turn that
@@ThePondAdvisor i think the hardest part was getting enough drop in a short distance. My gardens only 4m long. Also getting the stones placed. They always end up 20mm above the water level. Working in tropical clay mud is no joy either. Thanks for your encouragement, it really helps.
@@scox7748 When I am challenged with a low grade change I start the feature up high with something man made
@@ThePondAdvisor good advice. I have a big pot with a spout. Looks like next weekend will be third time lucky!
I was doubting myself for starting on building a waterfall in my backyard, then I saw this video and feel very encouraged. Thank you kindly.
thank you, what has been you biggest challenge?
Fantastic video. Even I understand now. Looking forward to the following videos
Lets build something in the sand box
I just wanted to thank you for your videos. I'm in Tennessee, USA and am a first time garden waterfall/pond builder. Your videos have been incredibly helpful.
Thank you for watching
Ahhhh thanks for calling me out!! I now can’t wait to watch the other 2 parts. Some great techniques shared. Just what I have been searching for and need to brave my first pondless. After watching you all these years you make it look so easy and I know it’s not!! Finally a simple guide that I understand. Thank you for listening and taking time to go back to basics
It’s easy to build a waterfall, it’s making it look good that’s the hardest part. It does take practice. I can’t wait to see your first water feature it’s going to be ten times better than my first feature. 5 months and counting for a 2020 waterfall build. Like this comment or Charlotte comment if you want to watch this Journey of her first waterfall build.
Can’t wait for the next video in the series. Thanks for walking through it step by step. Very helpful. Kind Regards from Colorado mate 🙂
my pleasure, i hope you enjoy the next two videos
Some excellent tips there Mark. Thank you. My son looked at me gone out when I was telling him how to use a shovel. Going to show him this vid now just to show him dad is right! 😂 looking forward to the next 🍻
lol its funny we find it hard taking advice sometime from loved ones, I was the same. Its hard teaching my wife how to build a waterfall. Monday 6pm part two
Watched many of your videos on pondless waterfalls. Helped me build my own 👍🏻
Thanks for watching
These tutorials are exactly what I wanted. Never done one, but even I feel like I can do this!
I have a small square garden and my idea is to have a pondless/rill/waterfall coming out from under a spillway attached underneath a floating seat placed along a fenced border between pleached trees. A flagstone paver will cross over it, leading to my deck and I’m toying with a fire pit to centrepiece it and serve the floating seat area, to offer a multi-use area. (I know, ambitious!) One of my main worries was the change of height to achieve the result I want. Your tutorials have helped me think about how this will all work in my small space.
Wish you were closer to attend one of your courses. Northampton is too far from the South Coast.
it would be good to see you if you do make it up this way, even if its for a coffee
This is brilliant 👍
thank you
THIS IS GREAT
Thank you 🙏
You helped me soo much doing mine with all your advices ! ❤I wish I can send you pictures of what i did…
(Im in montreal btw… 😉
Sounds like your super happy, I would love to see what you have produced.
I knew about putting the underlay down before the liner but never heard about putting it on top of the liner. It's OK that it gets continuously wet? It's not going to rot and fall apart and ruin all the work you did building your water feature? I am just about to rebuild my pond and want to do it the right way but am a little worried that putting the underlay on top of the liner may cause problems in the years to come.
No it’s cheap insurance or protection, prolonging the life.
I wish id known:
Don't be too quick to trim the liner. Wait a week if you can. I wish i had of waited til it had rained once or twice.
If you plant it, its much harder to pull it all out to fix it.
Set each level with a stake or rock so you can get a level at each change in height.
some great tips and tricks
I'd love to know how you'd go about adding a waterfall to an existing (raised from the garden level, but shelved left and right) concrete pond.
I was tempted just to lap some liner over the edge of one of the raised sides, but worried the water will work it's way back up under there.
Would I have to make some sort of a concrete spillway, or would it be OK with just liner?
I don't really want an overhanging blade type thing which I guess would be the easiest way to do it.
You have options, rubber is the only way in our rule book, you can overlap or use a termination bar.
Hi Mark these are very helpful tutorials. What make is your spillway box, where can I buy one?
waterfeature.shop/search?q=spillway+boxes&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
ahh, i am wanting to build a waterWALL. i presume its similar, a basin, then posts either side, then some marine ply and im putting an acrylic mirror on that. do you sell, or any idea on then how i go about the tubing, or the top cascade, spillway or nozzles for the drip effect?
Thanks for reaching out I know the walls you are talking about. I would talk to a specialist I have supplied the gear for a reservoir for someone that had a design but never built a waterfall with acrylic. Only built them with staked stone with my own manifold
I did have to rip my waterfall apart. It was full of leaks. Please tell people to never have a join in the liner. After spending a fortune on rubber liner. I wanted to cry. I just about have it finished again today. Still not perfect. Not enough water in the reservoir. ( a dust bin) so now I’m having to narrow the stream and make spillways more shallow. I ordered a ton of river pebbles. They are way too small. Slipping into the reservoir. Needed chunky stones. So if your ever doing ponds gone wrong in Ireland, you know where to visit.
This is one of the reasons I highly recommended purchasing the waterfall kits. River pebbles, you need about 30% of the rock you use. If your using a ton or so of rock then all you need is 300kg of gravel/pebbles
I didn’t have the money. But when I see all the money I’ve wasted on liner and foam, it would have been cheaper to get the kit. Warning to others. If your serious about doing this; save yourself heartache, get the kit ! Also buy the foam gun! 🤪
Anya T thanks for watching and taking the time to pass on your experience.
Im struggling with mine too. Redone it and made all the same mistakes. Such hard work eh. Just want to fill it all in with concrete
@@anyat686 can you imagine the amount of money I have wasted on liner and foam (its the payment for a great education, worth every penny), I wish I got in front of you before you made these mistakes, your comment hopefully will also help others with the waterfall installation or building a similar water feature.
When are you running courses again Mark? Me and a friend might be interested. Also do you have receive any sort of accreditation once you've completed your courses. Thanks Matt.
Our next waterfall day is in September (to be confirmed), £87.98 per person, the best thing to do is subscribe to the waterfeature.shop newsletter
Accreditation, what would you be looking for
Was wondering if you worked under the Aquascape umbrella, and provided Aquascape certification. No worries if not, we'd be very interested in attending in September.
Matthew Smith yes we help contractors with becoming certified, for more info please reach out via email. I would love to have a chat, the online courses and academy is a great place to start! We are the UK agents for aquascape
Thanks Mark, will be in touch soon. Love your videos, they've been amazing help getting me back into a hobby and hopefully possible career I enjoyed so much as a kid 👍
Hi Mark, is sandstone or gritstone bad for aquatic life. I have about 10 tonnes and am thinking of doing some kind of water feature but would like to have it flowing into a pool with fish in (i have a modern koi pond but want another natural looking feature).
Thomas Prendiville does the sand stone break down? Where did you get the stone from, has it been protected like in a wall or in the ground. If it’s old weathered stone it might be ok 👌🏻, you could always test a small feature way from the pool. The vinegar test is also another good one to use. Does the vinegar fizz if you put a little on the rock!
@@ThePondAdvisor there was a huge rockery at a house we bought and it was an eyesore so I ripped it out the house is 20 years old tbe the rockery is the stone left over from the build, i will try the (white?) Vinegar test and see what happens.
Yes, if it got any lime in the stone it will cause algae, if it’s been weathered you should be ok, but some sand and grit stones break down with the water, back into sand and grit
@@ThePondAdvisor thank you Mark.
@@Tom_Prendiville my pleasure
Is that box big enough for a 14 foot stream about 1.5 feet wide garden stream with a bout 2 foot height difference top tobottom?
Yes this will work with a pump up to 15k litre per hour which is more than enough water
Hi great news about the training bud any idea if there any spaces on the ed baloue training and your training also people I'm very interested in this please
Eds event was postponed, so more info will be out the best thing to do is sign up for the news letter on the website we have a waterfall day in Semptember, £87.98 more details to come.
That's great already subscribed
@@djswaterscapesandlandscaping perfect
In my garden we have a tiny preformed pond installed by the previous homeowner. It goes green every year as soon as the sun starts shining. I want to build a much larger and deeper pond but I'm worried about putting in a pond liner due to a medium poplar tree nearby. I think a preformed pond would be better but I don't want to be limited to shape and size. Do you prefer pond liners or preformed and is there any liners you'd recommend for best quality?
1mm EPDM (.45mil in the US) I would protect the liner above and below. I don’t like preformed for the same reason, plus they are hard to install in the ground. Fine on a patio but hard to dig in and back fill and compact the soil.
Adjustable slip joint pliers in America. Channellock is a manufacturer's name... like Crescent wrench is for an "idiot's wrench" 😉 Carry on...
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Could you kindly tell how much is biggers kit cost for 15x 20 waterfall
Our waterfall kits come with 10’ wide stream liners. If you want a 15’ wide it’s a custom liner.
Here is a link to our waterfall kits
waterfeature.shop/search?q=Waterfall+kits+
Where is pond college? I am about to start building my first pond and I would absolutly love to attend. How do I get involved?
Tracy Lewis currently we don’t have any book able events. We are based in Northamptonshire. Sign up to the newsletter on waterfeature.shop and stay turned to the channel.
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love the double thumbs up
@@ThePondAdvisor a very good video thank you.
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What is a waterfall gun???
Waterfall foam applicator!
waterfeature.shop/products/economy-foam-gun-applicator
How far do you travel.. im in newcastle is that to far out your way mate
Pond college?
Yes Pond College we were due to open late March covid slowed that down.
Great ideas but way too long winded.
Thank you for the feedback, we have a number of videos on building waterfall, a number of people gave feedback these were too short. Some people want real time other want overviews. Have you got what you need to start or continue with a project? If we produced another what length would you prefer?
The waterfall dont need filter ?
Great question m.th-cam.com/video/DrX3Oa-x_jg/w-d-xo.html
More information, less sales please.
thanks for your feedback
dude 12 minutes in and you still havent got to the use of the rocks, get on with it