You’ve already decided you want a pond. You’ve done your homework. You’ve had a conversation with someone on our team. You know what you want. You have a general idea of where it’s going to go. You’ve talked about budget. You’ve already agreed to have Tristan or someone from our team come out for a paid on-site consultation.
People chase the “perfect” answer to this question all the time, but the truth is there isn’t one.
As an industry standard, we like to say that an in-ground pond needs to be at least two feet deep. That’s our minimum as professionals.
Is it a rule? No, it’s not a rule. I’ve seen plenty of homeowners dig ponds shallower than that. I just don’t consider that to be a professional installation.
After more than 25 years of building water features, here are the five biggest design mistakes I’ve seen people make.
Having a water feature is a lifestyle.
But over time, the awesomeness factor that you once felt can start to fade. Not because your feature is falling apart, but because your dream is getting bigger. Your vision of what’s possible has expanded.
In this article, we’re going to walk through what it looks like to scratch that itch—whether that means simply knocking the dust off and giving it a fresh coat of paint, improving the functionality of your water feature so it’s less work and more play, or going full nuclear and tearing it out to build the next dream from the ground up.