4300 Gallon Plywood Build (3600+ Take 2)

[nolapete]

3 coats left to do. Decided that I'm not going to open the last 5 gallon container. I should finish up by Thursday with the last of a total of 11 gallons. Trying to stop by Jack's to get the pond liner piece for the bottom Saturday. I don't want to jinx myself by saying when I'd like to put water in to test, but I will say very soon.

 

[snakeguy101]

awesome! i cant wait! get pics soon!

 

[broken]

Did you ever get the ceiling finished?

 

[zennzzo]

3 coats left to do. Decided that I'm not going to open the last 5 gallon container. I should finish up by Thursday with the last of a total of 11 gallons. Trying to stop by Jack's to get the pond liner piece for the bottom Saturday. I don't want to jinx myself by saying when I'd like to put water in to test, but I will say very soon.

GoooooooOOOOOO PETE!!

 

[nolapete]

Did you ever get the ceiling finished?

Nope, still waiting on Charles to get free. I can test the tank without it being done, but can't have it up and running obviously until it is.

 

[BadOleRoss]

Question I just thought of. If this stuff stays tacky are you going to have a problem with food and potentially critters sticking to the stuff under water?

Once it gets wet it is no longer tacky. It will go from black back to the brown color it is when it is applied. Another little oddity is that during water changes when it starts to dry out it will start going back to the black color.

 

[Satan's Goldfish]

3 coats left to do. Decided that I'm not going to open the last 5 gallon container. I should finish up by Thursday with the last of a total of 11 gallons. Trying to stop by Jack's to get the pond liner piece for the bottom Saturday. I don't want to jinx myself by saying when I'd like to put water in to test, but I will say very soon.

Just a thought for ya, you might want to check whether the pondliner floats or not! Obviously normally the water sits in the liner so that weight pins it down. But i found with the tarp in the bottom of my build that when water was able to get behind it it started to try and float up and needed pinning with paving slabs to keep it flat. As yours is just a piece to sit on the bottom you might find the same happens, your substrate should pin it down but if you have a fish that likes to move things on the bottom then it might clear a patch that can start to lift

 

[nolapete]

While Permadri doesn't bond to pond liners, I'm sure it will grab hold of it sufficiently to keep it anchored, but thanks for the reminder.

 

[kallmond]

How about the heating system? Did you ever find the valve/thermostat device you were looking for?

 

[nolapete]

I won't have to worry about heating it until late September. I'm going to use a hot water recirculating system and PEX coils for heating elements in the 55 gallon drums.