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Utilize Concrete Cloth for Durability

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Pond BUILD! Day 2- sketchy

What happens here

Concrete cloth, also known as concrete canvas, is integrated into the pond design. This unique material consists of a geotextile fabric impregnated with Portland cement. When saturated with water, it hardens into a rock-hard, impervious surface. This is used to create durable, puncture-resistant surfaces, particularly valuable in areas where stability or animal interaction (e.g., large digging animals) is a concern. For drainage swales, it eliminates the need for concrete trucks, as rolls can be laid and hardened by rain.

Goal: Enhance pond durability and puncture resistance using concrete cloth.

Tools and materials

  • Concrete Cloth — Creating a hard, impervious, and puncture-resistant layer in specific areas of the pond
  • Water N/A — Saturating the concrete cloth to activate the cement

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[Music] yeah so this is what we call concrete cloth or concrete canvas it's got a p PVC membrane on one side which actually makes it impermeable to water we're not using that in this application but on the other side it's got this woven geotextile and it is impregnated with uh uh with Portland cement so as soon as you saturate it it turns into a rock hard surface so I can come on top of this literally with a sledgehammer and Bash it it might get micro fractures and everything but it will never puncture it's not going to going to go through the membrane I use this in applications where we have um large animals uh wolves big dogs like you have that are going to that are diggers you know so something that's going to want to actively dig into the bottom of the pond this will create a protective barrier that nothing's going to get through all right and it's called what it's called concrete cloth where do you guys get it from you can get it through us all right so you go through oase but guys actually use this for drainage SS drains up at the top of mountains instead of pouring concrete bring trucks up y they bring rolls of this up in an excavator 500t rolls yeah and they bring an excavator up dig out their drainage spil roll this stuff out and let Mother Nature Harden it exactly don't even let it you uh you could saturate it if you want but yeah you let it for one rain or so and you're good and you're done you're golden outside in the rain do not leave it outside in the rain kind of like your bags of Portland cement don't leave outside in the rain

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