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The laying of pond liner is expensive, but the expenses are worthwhile
Lay pond liner - which costs are incurred?
Laying pond liner can be recommendable - especially with larger ponds. Laying is not as easy as it looks at first glance. Any mistake you make can lead to costly and expensive repairs. What it costs to have the film laid by the professional, read here.
Difficulties in self-laying
It is important that a pond liner is laid without wrinkles. This can - especially with larger ponds - require a lot of skill, also you have to organize some helpers.
If even slight tensile loads are exerted on the film or if wrinkles form during installation, the tightness of the film is already in danger. It can then quickly lead to cracks. Something like that will later cause a time-consuming and annoying search for the damaged area and a comprehensive repair.
For this reason, it makes perfect sense to have the film laid by the professional perfectly. Often, this service is also offered together with the planning of the film size and delivery of the film together. Anyone who is not sure whether he can do it perfectly on his own should definitely focus on professional service.
Prices for laying
The prices for the installation of the film can vary greatly from company to company. Also the billing of the service differs from company to company:
While some simply charge a flat rate per square meter of film (for example, 10 euros per square meter) for film laying, other companies use hourly rates for film laying. If this requires several employees of the company, this can quickly be quite expensive, especially in a complicated pond construction with several terraces and irregular pond shape.
To get an idea of what the professional construction of a foil pond costs, here are some guideline prices for the complete pond design:
Including everything, prices between 50 and 100 EUR per m² pond are often required - this includes
In this price range also (easily) complicated pond constructions are included. When laying transparencies, you get many offers in the range of 10 - 20 EUR per m².
Tips
If you have the film laid by a pond builder and plan and mine the pond beforehand, you have something very important as an additional service: the guarantee. If there are leaks or water leaks in the pond, the company has to fix them - and you save yourself a lot of work.