Plastic shed base

Not many people get excited about the Plastic shed base. The name alone denotes a garden outbuilding that is functional and rarely a thing of beauty and a space to spend time in, apart from when you store and retrieve one's garden implements. There are loads of exceptions out there of course but for a majority the aforementioned descriptions hold true.

But I'm glad to say that the  Plastic shed base we have been actively building since mid-August is one we're both very excited with. The structure will still be and look functional, tucked away within the working area so will not be very visible (you'll get a glimpse of it as you walk past the koi pond towards the koi filter house) but the bit we're both most excited with is that it is potentially a space we'll spend lots of time in especially during the winter months.

Man cave? Don't we have one already? Funny enough no despite all the existing garden structures we have. Sure we can spend some time in them during the warmer months (like the jungle veranda) but rarely during the colder months. Those spaces are usually utilized for plant storage during the winter and are usually both too crowded and uncomfortable to hang out in at that period.


I suppose our home really is a very comfy man cave already so there was no need to have one to start with. But a space to hang out in, separate from the house still isn't such a bad idea to have and sounds fun. We had been looking at ready-made sheds such as these at Plastic Shed base but with the pond partly built and want to build to the maximum space would allow we opted to make our own.

It started out first as an allocated space for a quarantine pond which we started to build early last year but stalled as we prioritized our house renovation and sorting out the garden after the fire. When we finally resumed the work last August it quickly dawned on us that this quarantine pond will be much more than just that. That the shed we'll build over it is a potential space to spend time in during the colder months.
winter.
A man cave, a shed o'fun!

The pond will hold about 2,800 litres of water, we want to make sure it is very well filtered. As a result, we have spent quite a lot of time planning the filtration and choosing between.

Our current plan - which may still change is to use a combination of a home-made vortex filter with K1 filter media in it - this will provide biological filtration as well as also encouraging solid waste to fall out of suspension to be drained away from the bottom of the vortex. There are lots of ways of making these homemade filters, but having seen one at a fellow member of our Koi Club we will use a water butt as the vortex and then house the media within a smaller canister inside.

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