Checklist: Tools and Materials Required To Build a Pond
To follow is a comprehensive checklist of all the pond-buidling materials that you will require. You may have many of these tools already. Otherwise, you can purchase the materials required from home improvement stores, dedicated local suppliers for bulk items (e.g. sand and gravel), and water gardening stores and garden centers. Depending on the type of pond you are building, you may not need all of the tools from the checklist below.
Pond building: General Construction Materials
Liner Ponds
- 45 mil fish-safe EPDM liner (EPDM liner is preferred liner for ponds due to its durability and resistance to UV-degredation)
- Liner underlay
- Pond skimmer
- Pond bio-waterfall filter
- Bottom drain
- Landscaping foam
- Two-sided liner seaming tape
- EPDM liner patch/repair kit
- Pond pump
Preformed Ponds
- Preformed liner
- Preformed watercourses/cascades
- Pond pump
Tubing / Piping, choose between:
- Clear plastic pipe
- Domestic plastic pipe
- Flexible copper pipe
- PVC pipe
- Non-kink PVC pipe
- Reinforced garden hosepipe
- Armored pipe
- Domestic copper pipe
- Land drainage pipe
Fittings
- Hose clamps
- Copper fitting
- Copper pipe strap
- PVC pipe fitting
- Gate valve (to ensure uni-directional flow)
Pond Building: General Construction Tools and Machinery
Pond building tools for measuring and marking
- Pegs and string
- Tape measure
- Carpenter's level
Pond building tools for moving materials
- Gardening gloves
- Wheelbarrow
- Bucket
Pond-building tools for digging, compacting, mixing, and raking
- Spade
- Shovel
- Fork
- Sledgehammer
- Garden rake
- Trowel
Pond-building tools for brick, stone, concrete, and motar
- Stonemason's hammer
- Mason's trowel
- Brick hammer
- Brick chisel
- Mason's trowel
- Grinder
- Pointing trowel
- Cold chisel
Miscellaneous pond-building tools
- Jigsaw
- Handsaw
- Log saw
- Curved claw hammer
- Rubber mallet
- Power drill
- Cordless drill
- Drill bits for wood and metal
- Drill bits for masonry
- Flat drill bit for wood
- Knife
- Scissors
- Pliers
- Tin snips
- Screwdrivers
- Adjustable spanner
- Paint brush
Pond Building: Brick, Stone, Wood
- Stone paver
- Artifical stone paver
- Flat stone
- Brick
- Artificial stone block
- Stone block
- Rock
- Slate
- Cobblestone
- Decorative gravel
- Sleeper wood
- Log ring
- Rustic post/log
- Log-roll edging
- Useful lumber sections
Pond Building: Miscellaneous Materials
- Copper sheet
- Lead sheet
- Wire netting
- Pond netting (to keep animals out)
- Teflon tape
- Screw
- Carriage screw
- Nail
- Carriage bolt, washer and nut
- Pond Heater
Pond Building: Decoration
- Underwater lighting
- Spitters and fountains
- Pond plants
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