07-29-2010, 02:26 AM
quote:You guys did a great job and it is so nice of you to put the slide show on youtube. I should have said that I would have prefered the top of the pond to have been built so as to conceal the concrete, rather than saying it wasn't well done at the top. Sorry.
Originally posted by Peter Epperson
We built that pond in Hawaiian Acres. The plastic is there to keep the reinforcing steel clean and to slow down the drying out of the concrete as it cures.
I wonder if you are correct about why the plastic is placed under the concrete. Cinder is not going to stick to the rebar like clay, so I don't think it keeps the rebar significantly cleaner. As for dryness, I don't think that there would have been any problem with dryness on the underside of your concrete. Not to say that the plastic doesn't serve some function, I am just not convinced that is its purpose. How much did that pond cost by the way?