Having a pond liner laid can be highly recommended, especially for larger ponds. Laying is not as easy as it seems at first glance. Any mistake you make can result in expensive and time-consuming repairs. You can read here what it costs to have the film installed by a professional.
Having pond liner installed may be expensive, but it's well worth the expense
Difficulties in self-deployment
It is important that a pond liner is laid without any creases. This can - especially with larger ponds - require some skill, and you also have to organize some helpers.
If even small tensile loads are exerted on the foil, or if creases form during installation, the impermeability of the foil is already at risk. Cracks can then quickly occur. Something like this later entails a time-consuming and annoying search for the damaged area and a comprehensive repair.
For this reason, it makes perfect sense to have the foil laid perfectly by a professional. This service is often offered together with the planning of the film size and the delivery of the film. If you are not quite sure whether you can do it perfectly on your own, you should definitely rely on the professional service.
Laying prices
The prices for installing the film can vary greatly from company to company. The billing of the service also differs from company to company:
While some simply charge a flat rate per square meter of foil (e.g. EUR 10 per m²) for the laying of foil, other companies use hourly rates for the laying of foil. If several employees of the company are required for this, this can quickly become quite expensive, especially in the case of a complicated pond construction with several terraces and an irregular pond shape.
In order to have an approximate idea of what the professional construction of a liner pond costs, here are some recommended prices for the complete pond design:
Including everything, prices between 50 and 100 EUR per m² pond are often asked - that includes
- excavation
- Construction of the capillary barrier
- Laying fleece and pond liner
- including material
This price range also includes (slightly) complicated pond constructions. When laying foils alone, you get many offers in the range of 10 - 20 EUR per m².
tips
If you have the liner laid by a pond builder and plan and dig the pond beforehand according to his specifications, you have something very important as an additional service: the guarantee. If leaks or water losses occur in the pond, the company carrying out the work then has to fix them - and you save yourself a lot of work.