Ok, Leonardo. Now I'm interested. What's the process of drilling for water? Personally I am interested as I have just got a large plot in which I want to receive a natural water supply.
Ok John. I'm glad I got your attention. The rig needs 1.60 meters wide access to the plot, if this is not possible it can be craned over buildings . The well is drilled 8" wide down to necessary depth , it is then lined with a slotted tube surrounded by 1mm to 2mm gravel stone. Water yield is usually 20 litres to 200 litres per minute. Plants prefer well water to mains water, if you are local I'm happy to show you a work in progress
Hi John, Thanks for your kind words! Yes, the house is lovely. We have just finished the front too. All very formal. The water features were used to frame the patio. They were built with single skin brick walls (we checked that these could hold the capacity, but to be honest double skin would be my preference), These were built onto solid concrete foundations. Inside the pools we used welded butyl liners. If you give the exact dimensions of a pool like this to a decent aquatics company they will make a liner exactly to size. We put the liners onto sand, and an underlay all up the sides too, to protect the liner from any sharp edges. The liner was tucked up underneath the coping stones. Hope that helps.
Thanks John - I use a combination of Vectorworks, SketchUp and ye olde drawing board for my design work. I usually start out on the drawing board as it's still the quickest and easiest way to rattle through some concepts, then once I'm getting somewhere I move to the computer to work it up into a 'proper' drawing. Sometimes - for smaller sites - I'll just start roughing out a 3D model in SketchUp, but for larger sites (like the 2 acres I should be drawing up right now) I stick with Vectorworks and can then export bits of this to work up as 3D models in SketchUp. I find the 3D models help clients understand the garden so we get a shared vision from the first presentation.
For 2D presentation plans I've moved to using Vectorworks to do the draughting then colour them using a Photoshop-type program. That's had a couple of benefits - first off, I can obviously produce multiple colour copies quickly and easily, and I've also been able to do a design presentation over the phone to a client who was working in the US so I could just email the drawings and talk through them rather than waiting 6 weeks for him to get back home. Don't think I've got any examples of that on line at the mo - must get some more recent work posted!
Thanks, took some blood sweat and tears let me tell you. . . It was either fearcely hot or absolutely pooring with rain. Still you're right I do prefer the 'gardening' side of my job. I think though that this is due to the lack of experience that I have personally with the hard landscaping, although with every job . . .
Thanks John for the comment, I'm trying not to remember that job, as it was a nightmare in the organising. However it is about the only one that I have enjoyed on completion as in the past, the more natural features never look truly natural. I am much more at home with the man made look. See you are more at home with the natural! It is the dry stone walling that really floats my boat. Adam
Hi John Good work! The link to your website isn't working.
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