Excellent finish, about 3 1/4's of the way through mine at the minute, great inspiration, thankyou !!!!

What a lovely pond well done to you,and from the help you had really enjoyed watching the two videos all the hard work and to well worth it.Thank you for sharing it with us,Caroline from England.

Awesome video mate, colors we use are Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber, baby sh*t yellow and black for the cracks to deepen them on our rocks - works real good! Just an idea that I learned and wanted to share etc - Keep on rockin' man!

Amazing job thanks for sharing. Learned a few things for my pond build.

How on earth can 2 people dislike this? It's fantastic! Genuinly the most brilliant pond i've ever seen built! (not that i've seen many to be fair) But sheer class! Please Invite me round to the next BBQ i'll be good and i'll i'll do it sit and watch the fish! Bravo sir! BRAVO!

I really like the little bridge for the dog! I think you are going to wish you had a bottom drain.

Awesome! Lots of hard work & creativity!

Some guys have Hot Rods, others, ski boats, motor homes maybe a mountain cabin, this guy has a pond!

What a journey!!! Great job man👍🏼👍🏼

Brilliant job, well worth the wait.

happy koi fish. ur an expert! cant wait to make my own pond!

very nice...well thought out..very impressed...would love to see an update of the koi after a year...

I share your joy. Very aesthetic work. Good on ya & thanks for sharing.

Very good job on this. You are smart to use flexible draining system instead of bottom draining because it will be more significant work like sloping the floor of the pool towards the drainage pipe. With a flexible drainage system, you wouldn't run into leakage within concealed piping (which is a big headache). Good job.

This is spectacular. The Eco painted liner looks brilliant. Have you found the waterfall sound to be over powering? I'm guessing it was the recording that made it stand out. I'm in planning stage of converting a failed inground liner pool to koi pond. You give me inspiration.

Congratulations. Very nice pond.

one of the best ponds i ever seen...much better than liner pond

nice pond but no drain system?

That is an awesome pond!!!

Fantastic pond!

You're gonna hate yourself latter for not putting in a bottom drain. Nice build none the less! Doing things DIY gives you SO much fulfillment once everything is up and running.

Everything was just wonderful really enjoyed how you made your Pawn just one thing to criticize the fountain looks like Jabba the Hutt taking a leak

wow, just wow. that is amazing!!

Awesome! I always had problems with my UV light. I think it throws off the balance in the pond. It gets rid of the green water, but the nutrients that are left behind, that are not used by the algae, becomes lethal for the fish. I finally got rid of my UV light, and all is well now, except the water is green. Great job, on your pond!

Nice pond. Well done!

Brilliant pond , but not in a million years was it built by a novice. You had me fooled with the title. 👏👏

Great job what mix did u use for the waterfall bit with mesh plz thanks in advance

Wow! Beautiful:)

Thats amazing well done

Looks great!

nice job thanks for sharing

Beautiful!

How much did all this cost? I need a hardware list plz of all items bought for this project .

Great Job!

Wow beautiful work

Now that its been a few years how is the waterproofing holding up? I'm designing a pond and am interested in the product you used.

awesome i need to do this also how big do those koi get.

good work mate. how big are the koi now

This is amazing. You are n artist. How much did this cost you. I have a huge back yard I've been thing about this.

Amazing!!

GREAT job .

Where on you tube did you the waterfall idea. I'm particularly interested, thank you.

great pond well done

Also, how much electricity does your pump system use?

Hi there. Hows your liner paint holding on? No cracks? thanks

Beautiful Pond

Good job mate ✅✅

Well done!

Now that it's been quite a few years, does it still exist, what are your thoughts, did you have any of the concrete crack and what would you do differently? Just wondering.... thanks for making the video....

Curious about your overall cost. Hollow cinder block, motor, concrete footing, sealing, and epoxy. Gunite or a solid concrete wall may have come in cheaper. Also curious as to why there is no place for the fish to hide?

Phil, Beautiful! I could not see the bottom drain, what type did you use? Great use of space available. I had to design mine carefully as it sets on a steep slope. Good job!

What did you seal the blocks with? I'd like to build a small swimming pool, but I'm afraid it will leak!

All that great work but forgot a bottom drain...sorry to see that

How beautiful

Did you fill the hollow spaces in the cinder blocks with mortar? Also, I did not see rebar in the footings. Are the rebars just standing vertically on the footings inside the cinder blocks?

Wow I'm trying to get on that level just a small pond o wow and the uv light wow how many gallons?

I could see a huge efforts to do all these jobs 😊. Well, you did it in a very well mannered. I guess you will thinking about a drainage system that suits to the pond but you don't. I'm wondering how it goes without it. However I'll give 100% marks for making these such videos for us to followed to 😄. Good job bro

what are the diminutions on the water fall and how did you create the idea.

Beautiful pond however the waterfall looks like jabba the hut lol

Nice work

Well done 👌🏽

A more simplified waterfall maybe thats my only criticism it looks like that thing off of star wars.

Very beautiful

So I watched and hear sunny county 102.5 in the background which means your somewhere in the 805. I am dreaming up a koi pond but have NO clue where to start.. do you help others????

How has this been working out for you?

i want a same pond on my backyard...but your pond must have cost alot........

hallo, how does your filter work today? doesn't you have the problem to clean the filter mutch?

This isn't a pond, its a pool of amazement

Very unfortunate that you didn't put in a bottom drain with the volume of water in your pond. Nice work on the masonry.

Update on the pond please!

What did you use to seal the block work ? Kind regards and very nice build . :)

no drain system?

Hmm yes novice... far from! Nice Pond! was just wondering how much did you filtration system cost?

Hi Phil, you are not a novice, looks to me you are an expert...

I've learned alot over the past year on ponds. Especially koi ponds. I've built one so far and am going to be upgrading from a 800 gallon to somewhere in the neighborhood of 4000-5000 gallons. I've heard a bottom drain is a must. I didn't see you install one here. This was posted in 2012, so how are you removing the sludge and build up of fish waist that settles to the bottom? Since it's a flat bottom, do you use a pool vacuum or something?

did you guys consider removing the one palm tree I probably would have

i can't believe you have put all that work into this nice pond BUT NO BOTTOM DRAINS IN carnt believe it

Bravo

Your pond is nice but the camera is too close i feel dizzy and think i'm gonna get cross-eyed.

@abester266 My mentor said i would regret having bottom drains because of maintenance issues. He said that a quick vacuum job a couple times a year would be good enough to maintain a clean pond. After chasing underground leak problems and maintenance issues in an in ground spa years ago i was actually relieved not to have had to put pipe under the pond...

novice ? u would put many pro to shame very nice build ...its all about personal touches there are bits i dont 100% agree with but its personal to you ...nice ..good luck

How about some under water lights?:)

Don't be so dam negative for a first timer there are questions but the guy had it all covered, and since 2012 I bet he has now built a dam !!

Wow beautiful, but is too deep dangerous for kids but dam looks awesome

Nice job, however the music could of been a bit quieter...

Too many fish in one go, your filter hasn't go all the right bacteria yet. Just a few fish will 'prime' the filter with enough bacteria to take the sudden increase when you add a load more later

My Koi ate my Water Lillies , Gr8t pond.

wow! I'm shamed! u could drain that pond and use it as bomb shelter!!! I just dug and plopped a liner in... no filtration no nothing. It's been okay for 13 years but at 100gl I want to upgrade. I can't commit to this much work though cause I'm a wimpy poor housewife. u have any easier ponds too make? or some advice?

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BAD ASS...

Dude, that water is so green you have a massive algae bloom, its bad for your fish if you leave it for a long time.

looks more like a pool then a pound.

At least the put the fish correct but did they check the ph of the water? No ! Of course not this not important

Nice pond but the waterfall is a concrete abortion!

Nice but not a novice

Great build but say what you want! This whole video is a joke! You are no novice! You're just a contractor who has a lot of abilities and want to show them off! Own by the way, are you fishel alive? Lol

Patriots shirt . . . in southern California? Really?

waterfall spoils it, ugly mostrosity

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