Fill it or put boards over it?

benskia

benskia

benskia

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Hi,

After moving house, we emptied a brick pond that the previous owners had.
Because we've got young children, we decided it was safer to remove the water risk.

So, now we have a large brick construction with an empty hole in the middle.

I'd like to put a water feature on there instead. So that its not a pond, but just has moving water going round and round some kind of statue.

But - what to do with the hole that is there. Should I fill it with soil to use as the base for whatever I put on top. Or just put decking boards across and leave the hole underneath?

Any ideas?:confused:
 
Wash it out, then fill it with white sand for the kid's sand pit.(Don't use yellow builder's sand, or you'll have yellow tinted kids).

You can make a cover to keep the cats out from using it.

Maybe a wooden deck with lift up hinged lid or removal lid section, it would then serve two functions.
 
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Nightglow said:
Wash it out, then fill it with white sand for the kid's sand pit.(Don't use yellow builder's sand, or you'll have yellow tinted kids).

You can make a cover to keep the cats out from using it.

Maybe a wooden deck with lift up or removal lid section, it would then serve two functions.
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That's a pretty good idea, perhaps even some hinges on the decking so you don't have to completely remove it.
 
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Pics would help, but that's a brilliant idea!
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Hyburnate said:
That's a pretty good idea, perhaps even some hinges on the decking so you don't have to completely remove it.
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Sadly haven't got any pictures of the deck I built with hidden sand pit, it was done at least 15 years ago.

When the kids grew up, the old fish pond was then returned to it's original purpose
 
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