Pond Bottom Drain Installation

Installation guide for bottom drains bottom drain under liner to skimmer and bottom drain above liner to external pump manifold.

Pond bottom drain installation.

At the lowest point of the pond stub up a 3 inch bottom drain and cap it off. For liner ponds remove dirt around bottom drain pipe 6 deep with at least a 9 radius. The drain helps reduce pond maintenance as they help filter organics and help with the circulation as well. For example the drain can be plumbed to a settling chamber a sett lement tank a skimmer or sieve.

If you are using the advantage bottom drain cover with built in air diffuser you will need to install an air line. Installation of a bottom drain as for the actually 1 2 3 of getting the drain installed it s straight forward for even the average do it yourselfer a hole to house the drain is dug in the deepest section of the pond. Pond gardener has plenty of great pond drains to choose from. The ponds bottom should be bowled to.

You can expect that a bottom filter will be collecting the dirt when the fish are present in the pond. Having a pond bottom drain can boost pond quality. Gravity flow means we are plumbing the bottom drain to a pre filtration unit and from the pre filtration unit we are draining water with a pond pump and sending the water to filtration. Let the concrete dry install liner and then place drain cover on liner over pipe opening.

Install the bottom drain bulkhead fitting 1 below the pond bottom surface. It sucks in the garbage like old leaves rotten algae of the pond while it ensures the pond is vacuumed. We only recommend gravity flow bottom drain installations as opposed to direct suction drain installations. Pour concrete in area around bottom drain and contour as per the following drawing.

The bottom filter is known as a bottom drain also.