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Faux rock for your pond - part 6

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Uploaded by on Oct 6, 2008

Techniques for making faux rock for ponds and landscapes using lightweight concrete

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  • Excellent tutorials...and great ideas! I'm particularly interested not just because of the expense of natural stone...but because of the weight of large decorative boulders. You've definitely got me thinking about the possibilities!

    Question...Did you make your waterfall all in one piece, or out of several rocks then glued together?

  • @chainduck The "rocks" on the pond are actually monolithic. The whole thing is one integrated piece of concrete with each rock individually shaped by adding chunks of polystyrene and concrete. No need to glue them together, thus there are also no seams to produce potential leaks.

  • This is great- I researched cost for these rocks and WOW..What I needed was faux rocks for my Well Head and Septic covers--so I used craft wire(like chicken wire) and used pieces of Wood from stakes and used a staple gun to make the forms -in the underneath of the form I sprayed 3m glue to weed stopper sheets and glued to the wire. Then I followed your recipe---Turn out very nice!! Thanks.

  • @JanetKay58 I'm glad you found the technique useful. I'd love to see pictures of what you've created. Private message me so we can exchange email addresses and pictures.

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  • Great rocks:) Thanks for sharing, you are a very good instructor! The faux rocks at the stores are not as nice as your rocks and I love that you can make the color to blend in with your own area. The money the store ask for them is not in my budget. THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!

  • Wow Thanx !! great job please keep the videos coming!!

  • very informative, details and creative video. Thank for creating this video and share with every one.

  • @SemiTall It should seal it, but it might take more than one coat.

  • @dperry428 natural rock is pourous- this is a sandstone type rock we have in a water feature around a saltwater pool. Its a long story

  • @SemiTall I don't know why not, but, then again, why would you need to do that to natural rock?

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