Levelling a piece of garden

[wolfracesonic]

You now need to install a 15ft tramapoline next to it so the kids can bounce off it into the water: Hours of waiting around in A&E fun to be had.

[littlebasher]

hotchy said:

Id deck around that and build it around the sides to make it look more friendly to the eye.

My Mrs has already included that on my 'to do' list

First come the heater though...anyone got a air source heat pump for sale !

[4Q]

I've got a solar hot water panel you can have, I'm just down the road in Chesterfield.

[Chris Type R]

wolfracesonic said:

You now need to install a 15ft tramapoline next to it so the kids can bounce off it into the water: Hours of waiting around in A&E fun to be had.

I know someone in a terraced house who has a pool and trampoline in the back garden. No space for anything else. And jumping from trampoline to pool is possible.

[8-P]

Although it doesnt look like much I bet there was a skip load, literally of soil there. How long did this take? Did you get a skip / digger or was it spade and wheelbarrow etc?

[dmsims]

littlebasher said:

First come the heater though...anyone got a air source heat pump for sale !

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-SWIMMING-POOL-AIR-SOURCE-HEAT-PUMP-HEATER-8KW-RRP-1399-/352060361114

Offer them £500

[8-P]

Surely that would be more that the cost of the pond, sorry pool ;-)

[littlebasher]

4Q said:

I've got a solar hot water panel you can have, I'm just down the road in Chesterfield.

Thanks for the offer 4Q, i did try with something similar ( one of these), but all it did was slow the flow to the point that the filter stopped working!

[littlebasher]

dmsims said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-SWIMMING-POOL-AIR-SO...

Offer them £500

There's a couple of complete pool setups for sale on Ebay that come with a heat pump. I was thinking of winning one of those and paying, loading the heat pump into the car and then doing a runner leaving the pool behind!

[littlebasher]

8-P said:

Although it doesnt look like much I bet there was a skip load, literally of soil there. How long did this take? Did you get a skip / digger or was it spade and wheelbarrow etc?

There's not quite enough room to get a mini digger down the side of the house, so it all had to come out by hand. I took 50 full wheelbarrows of soil out to get that level.

Luckily my daughter lives a few doors down and has a really shabby garden, it now features a large pile of mud.

[Sheepshanks]

So what happened to:

littlebasher said:

I can't dig it out either, as the ground has to be undisturbed.

[8-P]

littlebasher said:

There's not quite enough room to get a mini digger down the side of the house, so it all had to come out by hand. I took 50 full wheelbarrows of soil out to get that level.

Luckily my daughter lives a few doors down and has a really shabby garden, it now features a large pile of mud.

Ouch, 50 barrows!

[littlebasher]

Sheepshanks said:

So what happened to:

littlebasher said:

I can't dig it out either, as the ground has to be undisturbed.

You're quite right, wasn't dug out from above instead it was all cut out horizontally. Made it considerably harder!

[littlebasher]

Doesn't really need it in this glorious sunshine, but heat is now available!