Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>It’s already 25°C and I am dripping with sweat… but a slight modification had to be completed! Made a shelf in the main <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/poolpond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poolpond</span></a> area to hold a milk crate, which will hold one of the pumps. </p><p>I decided it was critical to have circulation from the bottom of the pool including taking water from the bottom to send to the filter. But since the main pump area is in the intake bay/skimmer I would have had to bring a pipe up and over the wall and down into pool. (The pumps must be submerged in at least 6” of water at all times)</p><p>This would be inefficient and potentially have air lock problems… so I pulled back the three layers of liner and cloth and excavated a little nook in the already semi hidden back corner. </p><p>This will have to do. :) the sun was already coming over the house. The rubber liner gets very hot 🥵. Glad it didn’t take too long.</p><p>There will be a rock or some sort of wall below and in front of the crate to further support and hide it.</p><p>Oh, and now that the liner and stuff is all back, the 🐜 ants can go back to their regularly scheduled ant-ing.<br><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/backyardpond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backyardpond</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/hot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/ants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gardening</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/homeimprovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homeimprovement</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/portalberni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>portalberni</span></a></p>