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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Regan, post: 217513, member: 5841"] This is from when I closed down my koi pool a couple of years ago, going from this, [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1020431.JPG"]85734[/ATTACH] via this [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1020444.JPG"]85735[/ATTACH] and this [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1020478.JPG"]85736[/ATTACH] I ripped out the liner at the bottom to expose the concrete screed base I'd laid, then drilled a lot of holes through it for drainage. The pool was lined with roofing ply panels covered with heavy duty plastic attached to 3" X 2" posts, buried in the concrete and screwed to the pool's concrete collar. They looked no different to this when I built it in 1986. No rot or water damage [ATTACH type="full" alt="05179.jpg"]85740[/ATTACH] . To this. The narrow bed in the foreground I originally made from two lines of rocks just cemented to the crazy York stone on the wide concrete pool collar. Just a question of removing a few and forming two ends to make an access to this new patio. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1050174.JPG"]85739[/ATTACH] I was taking them round three at a time to a neighbour two doors away who also has a koi pool. My main concern was that they went to a good home. I closed the pool as the liner developed a slow leak after 33 years, it was only the pressure of the water on the liner on the smooth concrete base from making it worse, there were tiny splits in the liner at the bottom. I can't complain as it was only guaranteed for twenty years. To rip up all the perimeter rocks, half the waterfall, the concrete filter return "bridge" and possibly the pergola posts was going to be too much work. So I got a firm in to dump twenty tonnes of eco-friendly hardcore in it and pave over it. The only landscaping job in the garden I've not done myself. The builders gave the surface a good "wacking" before loose laying the paving. consequently it hasn't moved and drains without ever leaving puddles whatever the weather [/QUOTE]

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