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A Swamp?
...in my living room? I think I'll stick to reefing.
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There was a thread a few years back, poster named Raf. Or his wife. Think it had pics.
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There's a few kicking around.
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should not have looked at this thread . Now I want to build one after googeling . Will follow see how it turns out
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Step Two: Background.
I wanted something 3 dimensional that would hold some plants and act as a water feature. Only option was to build one from scratch so I picked up some rigid foam and some spray foam and got to work. Foam outline and pots all siliconed in place Spray foam going on After burning through 2 cans of the expensive black pond foam rather quickly I just decided to continue with the standard great stuff. Then I curved out the exist to reveal a more rock like structure. After one coat of Quickwall Cement with Acrylic Fortifier Next layer had brown cement coloring added Final Layer has charcoal coloring |
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Apologies in advance for poor picture quality, just snapped a few rather quickly with my phone as I worked through the process.
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Another method used:
Rigid foam rough cut Followed buy some blow torch action First coat Finished product for the back wall |
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Not really, at first I thought it would be worth while using the black for the price difference but $50 worth went rather quickly, the regular foam is a quarter of the price and actually goes further and works better. It's not as rigid but after being covered in concrete it makes no difference. Also pretty much all spray foam will be above the water level so no real concerns, but either way the regular is more commonly used.
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You haven't even seen step two yet
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