Protect your garden pond liner with a protective layer
At this time, it would be very wise to add a protective layer as an added cushion for your liner should any sharp objects work their way up
through the soil later.
Here are some ideas for free materials to use:
- Several layers of old newspaper
- An old blanket
- A layer of sand (tip: most sand yards will allow you to take sand by the bucketful free of charge!)
- A piece of old carpet or carpet padding (be sure that there are no carpet nails left :) You can get as much free carpet as you need - free!
Simply call local carpet installers & request the old carpet that they remove.
- Layers of bubble wrap (instead of having to bring it to the recycling center, use it for your pond!)
- Roofing felt
You can see in this picture that we chose to line our pond bottom with a piece of old carpet. You can see at the bottom of the picture,
we've started cutting it to size.
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