fixing???

07 Monday Jul 2025

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we’ve been working on the pond to try and fix the leak that only seems to happen when the waterfall is running…

we purchased a new hose from a pond store and it took a while to get here… then we had to wait for a good day to work on it…

took extra help to pull the old hose and insert the new one… next a new connection to the pump had to be purchased and finally on Sunday evening the waterfall was turned on… the pump hadn’t been cleaned, but the water was coming through the waterfall much stronger that previously…

we thought the problem was where the water meets the deck on the deck side…

this how it looked at the end of Tuesday…

and it was still leaking, sigh…

this is how it looked on Thursday, although we may be getting closer to the problem…

complaint…

22 Sunday Jun 2025

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sometime back, we picked up a new hose as the old one had sprung a leak…

we ended up with a different type… not an expanding one…

I have used it and discovered that it didn’t work for me… it was 100 feet long, like the old one, but it seemed to kink more and the water flow seemed to come and go…

I’ve been sharing my complaint about it for weeks, so finally, we picked up the type I’d had before;-)…

it isn’t exactly the same as the old one, but is much better and lighter than the one I’ve been using…

now it is much more fun to water the plants and grass;-)…

broke…

17 Tuesday Jun 2025

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quite a while ago, the hose connecting the washer to the drain broke… we had another flood, sigh…

we had someone in to figure out how to fix it, only to discover we needed a new drain hose… the technician siliconed the old pieces together while we wait for the new hose to arrive… for the first few times I stood and watched when the washer ran, just to be sure the hose didn’t pop off…

then we had to decide if the drywall needed to be replaced, but in the end decided on a paint job as there were no signs of water marks…

it now has the new hose and freshly patched and painted walls;-)…

valve…

27 Friday Dec 2024

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seems like we were busy today…

took a trip to Canadian Tire to find a new hookup for the hose… we weren’t sure if it was the actual hose or the valve… happily it was the valve, which was much more economical than a new hose, lol…

the new one turns much easier so the old pliers can make it back into the toolbox…

then, the hot tub was topped up… it was rather low… and the cold tub was dumped and refilled…

finally, the new saucepan and small frying pan got added to the kitchen wall;-)…

tanks…

30 Monday Sep 2024

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following along with taking the netting off the pond and the fish being happier, I’ve been working on their winter condo…

rarely do I clean the tanks when they head out to the pond, lol…

so, I’ve been working on emptying tanks, cleaning them and getting them set up for the big move…

this year I decided to move the small tank from the living room to the dining room credenza with the other two tanks…

the plan is to have plants on the ledge where the tank was…

to do that I had to empty the two big tanks so that I could move them along so there would be room to fit the third one in… they also were scrubbed to get most of the algae off them…

and of course the one is the same depth, but about an inch and a half shorter than the others… we found some wood in the garage that brought it up to the perfect height…

we ordered a pump to use to empty them and after waiting for it to arrive, when I used it on Saturday, it worked for about five minutes and then quit, sigh… so I filled a jug and dumped it into the toilet over and over as well as watering some of the planters outside…

I quite like how they look all together…

after nearly completely emptying them and moving them, I filled them with the outside hose… I am so happy that it extends to a hundred feet so it can do things like this…

two of the three pumps started with no problem… unfortunately, the biggest one did not… it had been giving me a bit of trouble last year so I will be heading to Nestor’s to either replace the pump or the whole system… we have had that one for many years…

once it is running, it will likely be three or four weeks to be sure the water is clean and ready, before the fish come in…

little steps;-)…

working…

14 Friday Jun 2024

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yesterday I went into the pond to take out the small pump and clean it…

it was very dirty, ugh… the process of getting in and out of the pond involves a chair, towel, watershoes, and this time, a bucket to put the bits that needed to be cleaned…

then I used the hose to clean everything… dirty business, lol…

after I put the pump back, it was working better, but not as well I was hoping for…

and I cleaned out the main pump while I was in there;-)… glad that job is done…

stretched…

27 Saturday Apr 2024

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Wednesday, after I skimmed off as much of the floating bits as possible, I brought out the pond pump and attached a hose that stretched to the fence…

had to hold the float up so it took a while, but finally most of the water was emptied from the main part…

when I tried to work on the waterfall area the pump kept coming apart… luckily I was far enough away that I didn’t get drenched, lol…

that was it for the day…

Thursday I put on my watershoes, went into the pond, and pulled up two pails full of leaves and other debris… I also removed many big rocks and cut back a portion of the pond grass which was trying to take over…