Pond Cleaning And Maintenance – How We Can Help And Why It’s Important.
A backyard pond is the ultimate landscaping upgrade: You get a nice peaceful place to relax and a design feature that helps the environment and native species. Installing, cleaning and generally maintaining your pond, however, isn’t always the easiest thing to do, so that’s where we come in:
Our friendly team of experts have seen all types of pond over the years and we understand that no two systems are alike. That’s why we offer various levels of assistance spanning from phone diagnostics and recommendations all the way through to full installation and regular maintenance for all ponds, both big and small. We’re based in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne but provide service to all localities in and around the Greater Melbourne area as well as various locations throughout Victoria and can connect you with a trusted partner to get the work done if you’re in another part of Australia.
Put simply, our job here is to help you get the most out of your pond and make it as easy as possible for you to look after your ecosystem and fish.
How we can help you depends on what stage of your pond journey you’re in. As a general rule, our services can be broken into the following categories but if what you’re after isn’t listed, feel free to give us a call on 1300 005 670 or select “other” in our contact form. This information is intended as a general guide only and even if we can’t help you out directly, we’ll do our best to help you find someone who can.
Construction and Installation:
How We Can Help:
We’ll be with you from start to finish. Have one of our team members deal with the original digging through to balancing your ecosystem or pick and choose what you want assistance with.
- Excavation: We’ll dig the hole and construct your pond for you.
- Landscaping: Want a natural pond design, specific look or just a general tidy up and polish of the area around your pond? We have fully qualified landscapers who can help you out.
- Pond Design and Decoration: Not sure how exactly you want things to look? Our specialists can help you select a design and take care of crafting your waterfall or any other features you’d like included.
- Lining: We can supply liner and accessories if you’d like to DIY but if you’d rather not, we can get everything nicely installed for you.
Remember: When choosing your liner, always allow a little extra so you have an adequate lip. If you’re not sure how much you’ll need, give us a call and one of our pond construction experts will help you out. - Pumps and Aeration: From working out what flow rate you need, through selecting and installing your new pump, our team have got your aeration needs covered.
- Filtration: Filtration is paramount for ensuring your aquatic ecosystem stays happy and healthy. Our specialists can help you work out what filtration is best for your situation and get everything set up for you.
- Plants and Fish: Not sure what plants or fish you’d like? Or maybe you know but you can’t find them or work out how to establish your aquatic flora?
Our friendly team of experts can help you decide, source fish and plants for you and get everything set up happily within your pond.
Why It’s Important:
If everything is designed in a cohesive manner, specified correctly and properly actioned, your pond will have a much better start to life than if multiple aspects have simply been thrown together. In fact, getting your pond set up correctly from the start will greatly decrease your risk levels for many issues and can even help lower your maintenance requirements.
Building a pond may seem fairly simple but something as basic as an incorrectly measured hole can have flow on consequences that run far deeper than not having your liner fit properly if you’ve already purchased other important elements. Having a correctly sized filter and pump will help keep your ecosystem happy and healthy and it’s especially important if you intend on keeping fishy friends but all your preparation will go out the window if everything doesn’t line up at the end. This is why we recommend calling in an expert or constructing your pond before making decisions about what you will use to keep things clean.
Please Note: Even if you don’t need physical assistance with construction and/or installation, we welcome you to get in touch so we can offer any advice you may need to make sure your pond will love you as much as you’re going to love it.
Pond Cleaning and Maintenance:
How We Can Help:
With all the factors that can affect the health and balance of your pond’s ecosystem, keeping things nice can be hard. Our aim is to make your maintenance as easy as possible so you can spend more time loving your pond and less time cleaning up problems. For those with existing ponds we provide three levels of care depending on how confident you are and how much of the dirty work you want to do:
- Advice: Happy to do the hard stuff yourself? Our specialist consultants can point you in the right direction for keeping your pond clean, dealing with algae blooms, making sure your fish and plants stay happy and more. Give us a call or fill out our contact form and let us know what your specific needs are, our team are always happy to provide personally tailored advice.
- A Helping Hand: So you’ve been happily maintaining your pond but now you’ve got issues with algae or aquatic weeds? Maybe you need to install some new equipment or repair an existing unit that’s seen better days? Our technicians are happy to come out and give you a hand fixing up any issues that may arise. They have fish friendly treatments to clean up almost any algae or weed issue and are specially trained in the installation and care of all equipment that we sell.
- The Whole Kit And Kaboodle: Want to spend all your time enjoying your pond and living your best life? Schedule in a regular maintenance program with our technical team and leave all the work to us! General cleaning and maintenance, installing new equipment or repairing existing, vacuuming out that nasty sludge, caring for your plants and fish and almost anything else you need can be arranged; There isn’t much our onsite superstars can’t do so don’t be afraid to give us a call if you’re not sure what you need.
Why It’s Important:
Presumably, you have a pond because you want to enjoy it. While cleaning and maintaining it probably isn’t the most fun thing on your to do list, incorrectly maintained ponds can quickly deteriorate.
When not looked after correctly, you pond can become an eyesore or possibly even a health hazard if things get too far out of hand. No-one wants a stinky mosquito breeding ground in their backyard but if you haven’t got the right equipment and don’t keep on top of your maintenance properly, there’s a good chance that’s exactly what you’ll end up with.
We’re not trying to scare you here, but the importance of proper, regular, maintenance, cannot be ignored.
Each and every pond is a unique ecosystem that has its own specific care needs so your first port of call should be establishing how best to look after you pond.
This will depend on a number of factors such as:
- The size and location of your pond.
- What fish and plants (if any) you have in it.
- How you want your pond to look (green and leafy, crystal clear, etc).
No matter what level of assistance you would like with maintaining your pond, we are happy to answer any questions you may have.
While we strive to provide as much information as possible on our blog and in our newsletter, there’s not much that can beat personally tailored advice for your pond and maintenance routine.
Other Assistance:
We also offer onsite consultation services to help diagnose any issues with your pond and a range of one off / semi-regular services including:
- Dealing with an algae or weed outbreak.
- Fixing pH issues.
- Seasonal pond cleaning for when the weather changes and you really need that good, deep clean.
- Fish kill emergency diagnosis and remedy.
- Fixing up damaged or leaking ponds.
- Redesigning your set up when you feel like something new (or when the needs of your fishy friends change).
- Dealing with equipment installation, malfunction or removal.
- Complete deep clean including drainage, vacuuming, repairs (if required) and re-filling of pond / re-establishment of ecosystem.
