5 Tips About Building Your Own Waterfall using Pond Liners & Rocks

It is not easy to build your own waterfall using liner when slopes are involved. It is not my intention to go into great details. Rather I want to point out where the difficulties lie and the broad solution available to you ....

• You need to build a frame work for your planned waterfall ... you cannot just place a piece of liner on a slope and then place rocks around the edge. rather create a series of terraces so that each terrace cascades gently into the next lower one.

• Each terrace should be a like a small self contained pond with edges to prevent water being lost from the sides and of course an outlet. So you dig a series of suitably sized holes making the base of each hole flat .... you will do this by digging into the slope of soil

• Each "small pond" must be able to support itself ... ie the walls will not collapse when it rains for example so by far the best way is to use a firm base and build up the sides using bricks or blocks as if you were building a shallow concrete pond.

• The outlet lip for each "small pond" must be 4 inches lower than the pond brickwork.

• Once completed place the liner in position and make sure it overlaps the brick edges down the length of the waterfall. You can then place a final layer of bricks or rocks or whatever to hide the liner edge that passes over the brickwork.