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Flexible Lining Products Ltd
Pond Liner Material

UK distributor for Pond Liner, Butyl Pond Liners, Tank Liner, Landscape Fabric, Geotextile and Building Materials

Flexible Lining Products Ltd are the UK's leading distributor of premium quality pond liners, landscape fabric, protective underlay and geotextile materials to the private sector, aquatic retail, agriculture, horticulture, landscape and industrial markets.
Their range includes Swedish Butyl, Firestone Pond Liner, Swedish Greenseal, Terram, Ledatec and Polyfelt geotextile products which cover a variety of applications i.e. pond liners, ground stabilisation, land drainage, slope reinforcement, root & weed control and building / paving/ road geotextile applications.

Flexible Lining Products offer their customers a consistent and highly specialised service, credible knowledge base, expert technical support and design information to ensure an economical quality solution to any project or application.

Pond Liner Material Selection

FLP Swedish Varnamo Butyl Rubber - Manufactured by Varnamo Sweden some of the characteristics this material offers is exceptional elongation, non toxic to fish and plants, resists compressive loads and ground movement, reverts back to original form and not affected by UV light or age.

FLP Swedish Varnamo Greenseal Rubber - This exceptional material looks and feels exactly the same as Butyl Rubber, has superior properties to Butyl and is cheaper. With Butyl Rubber you are paying for both the name and the expensive cost of natural rubber which is only a small percentage of the material composition in comparison to Swedish Varnamo Greenseal which is an EPDM (synthetic rubber), hence is able to be made made stronger and cheaper.
FLP Firestone Pond Liner - An exceptional high performance 1.02mm EPDM rubber geomembrane engineered for both domestic and heavy duty commercial applications by the premier name in rubber technology Firestone Building Products

Building a Pond

1. Choosing a pond liner. There are many different sorts of pond liner - plastic, fibre glass, clay and concrete, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Overall, we would recommend liner made of rubber, which is durable, flexible, moderately cheap and easy to work with. The size of butyl liner you will need for your pond can by calculated as:
Width + (2 x max depth) x Length + (2 x max depth)
2. Mark out your pond on the ground with a rope or hosepipe first.
3. Get digging! Dig the hole, ensuring the sides are level with a spirit level on a plank spanning the pond. Dig an extra 25cm depth to accommodate the liner 'under-cushion' (see below) and height of the flagstones at the pond edge. Finally, dig a trench around the perimeter of the pond for the over-hanging pond liner to drop into. If you are building an accompanying bog area, also dig out a saucer shaped depression 60cm deep on the appropriate side of the pond.
4. Lining the pond. Remove any sharp stones or other objects from the bottom of the hole and first put down a 5cm+ layer of sand , old carpet or newspapers (or try loft insulation material!) as an 'under cushion' for the liner proper. Unroll the rubber liner over the top with the over hanging edges falling into the trench. Any extra excess liner can be snipped off with scissors.
You will need to add a substrate for plants and animals. Sand is excellent because it is sterile and will not harbour any undesirable seeds or microbes. Spread a thin layer over the bottom of the pond.
A boggy area can be lined with liner off-cuts, overhang liner, old plastic sacks or bags, or all of these, basically anything that will help impede drainage. If using over-hanging liner, punch some holes 20cm apart in the bottom of the bog (not the pond!), then cover over with crocks and fill in the bog area with soil. To make watering the bog easier in the future, you can bury a length of perforated hose into the soil so that this may be connected up to an external water supply via a hose.
5. Filling with water. If possible, use collected rainwater to fill your pond; for most people however, filling from the tap with a hose is usually the most practical method. To stop the sand substrate dispersing, rest the nozzle on a plastic bag to absorb some of the energy. Filling may take much longer than you think so now is the time to put the kettle on for a well deserved cup of tea. Back fill the trench with soil; as the pond fills up, the liner will stretch. As the pond is filling, place turf, soil or flagstones over the exposed liner at the pond edges. Butyl liner degrades in sunlight so try not to leave areas of uncovered liner exposed for to long.

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Flexible Lining Products Ltd
Fernlea House
Lower Milkwall
Coleford
Glos GL16 7LQ

E-mail: info@flexibleliningproducts.co.uk