Filling in a pond

mahoney

I need to find someone to fill in my stinking pond. Would it be a builder or landscape gardener?

Thanks

Mankysteve

Could try and find someone with a dead dog.

I would landscape gardner. I would suspect a builder may decide to use copious amounts of rubble.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Mankysteve wrote: »

I would suspect a builder may decide to use copious amounts of rubble.

I was thinking the same.

Some of them would dump anything in there.

Broken sinks, roof tiles, glass, nails or whatever else they would have to pay for to dump.

forgotmyname

I have a washing machine you can use if you want?

How big is the pond? Ground level or raised? Rubber/Plastic liner?

kmmr

Mankysteve wrote: »

Could try and find someone with a dead dog. .

giggle... good times, good times...

beedeedee

Have a look round the garden. In ours, the soil and stuff that had been dug out was incorporated into "landscaping" covered by grass turf. We found a passing couple of strapping lads and they moved the stuff from one place to the other for a few quid and a couple of pints.......

mahoney

Thanks all. It is plastic lined - rubber rather, not a hard mould. It is so stinky now that anyone will probably ask for danger money I'm hoping the cold weather will freeze it all and stop the stink.

Is it worth me knifing the plastic so that the water starts to seep away?

mahoney

I should add that I want to pave where the pond is, rather than grass it over.
Thanks

keystone

Why don't you just clean the pond? Then it won't stink.

Cheers

bobhawke

If you want to pave over it then I would recommend a landscaper rather than a builder and get it filled with type 1 or something similar depending on the size of the pond.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

mahoney wrote: »

Thanks all. It is plastic lined - rubber rather, not a hard mould. It is so stinky now that anyone will probably ask for danger money I'm hoping the cold weather will freeze it all and stop the stink.

Is it worth me knifing the plastic so that the water starts to seep away?

A few jabs with a garden fork may be a good start.......


Perhaps get any fish out first