PURGING A BOTTOM DRAIN (PUMP FED) KOI POND 

That's it, I'm cleaning my drain the weekend, Thanks for giving me more work to do 🤣. Great video 👍

Nice demo. It's so good to go through the filter system every now and again to remind and help people.

A good informative video mate, Keep them coming 👍👍👍, Take care, Terry.

Wish I'd watched this before building my pond, I have to disconnect half my pipework to clean my drain 😫 hopefully this will help others with there build. Thanks for the video pal

Best way 👍👍

Re doing my set up Andy, always good to look back on old video's to see how people have set theirs up. Hope all is well with the family.

Nice demo Andy ,purged mine other day ,WOW the smell was bad ,mine just comes straight out of the ball valve 👍🏻

Very well designed and thought out! Easy peasy

Great video Andy and very good advice on purging your drain stay safe 🙏🐟🐟🐟🐟🙏

Really good informative video Andy, you definitely dont want that mess left in the drain 👍

Great update mate, it's surprising what's left in the pipework. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍

Do you ever get to relax lol, stay safe Andy & Bizley 😘

Good morning Andy just purchased some fok pond clay on e bay £29.95 for 1.5 kg no postage. Hope this is some help. Enjoying watching your channel Some great tips

Thank you, very helpful!!

Awesome video mate 👍👍👍 Dang that's alot if pipe 😉😉😉

Hiya, It seems that a gravity fed system is easier to purge than a pumped system? Good upload and instructions as usual.. Every days a school day...😉👍

Thanks for that Andy, very helpful video 👍👍👍

Bit of a complicated and time consuming process but certainly seemed to do the trick. I'm fortunate that my filters are gravity fed through a 4" bottom drain directly into a vortex. I close the valve between the bottom drain and vortex, drain the vortex to remove any accumlated waste then open the valve to the drain and a huge rush of water floods the vortex bringing with it any debris that may have accumlated in the drain line. The pond is 5.5 ft deep and the inlet to the vortex approximately 3 ft below water level so lots of pressure to flush the drain. I clean my vortex every week so a bottom darin purge is part of the weekly process. Whole thing takes about 5 minutes to do.

Thanks for this really useful. I am building a new pond using a round plastic liner. I currently have a nexus that is pump fed and don’t want to dig down for the filter house so I can retain the pump fed system. I want a bottom drain though so was wondering if you can pump feed one like you have!

Interesting video Andy how your filter system works dirt better out than in keep up great work mate 👍

Great vid Mucker, I’m gravity but this has been really useful as I may drop my pond lower into the ground sometime in the future which would mean switching to pump fed for me. From your tee piece to your pump have you just used a rubber pipe reducer? Cheers for posting this one👍👍

Interesting video have you tried a long bendy brush to dislodge debris I'm sure I've seen that sort of thing somewhere ??

Some great advice as usual. Interesting how bad it was after only a short time, could it be that recent slimy algae maybe?

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Hi Andy, I’ve sent msg over on your last video but doesn’t seem to come up 🤦🏻so I’m trying here 🤣

So Am i right in thinking your bottom drain is only “purging” at the rate of the pump via the small diameter pipe work? rather than 4” pipe work with the value opened and purged via gravity? Appreciate the muck in your bucket but how’d you really know how clean your bd pipe work is? Why don’t you purge after your ball valve outside via a T piece?

Cant do better than putting the pressure washer down it from time to time

I had a curry last night can I lend your karcher to purge my bottom drain 🤣