using milk method to find a leak question
jennyb5149
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mike_il
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Need help finding a leak in liner pond.
Comments (14)A plank across the pond can make it easier to search awkward places, saving a dunk in the water ahah, remembered a few more techniques for finding leaks... Let the water level drop below the leak, wait for a very dry period of weather, go look by day and by night for little tiny beads of moisture showing up on dry areas of the liner where soil moisture is moving through small punctures. You can spot pinhole leaks easier when the liner is very dry while the soil behind is quite damp. During Summer, its not unusual to see tiny trails of debris trickling from punctures on a dry liner, ants find every tiny hole convenient for tipping out little particles of excavated soil as they extend their tunneling. Rodents can be an occasional source of leaks, where in hard winters they cannot find water in frozen ground, they tunnel up to the liner and peck through the liner usually in out of sight places, beneath overhanging clumps of grass, folds in the liner... As their holes cause the water levels to drop, they bite new holes at another location lowering the water level further. Where you can look behind the liner will indicate if their are rodents, you might anticipate several leaks along where those tunnels run after a hard freezing Winter. Moles do the tunneling, mice move in and bite at liners...See Morecup and baggie method question
Comments (19)I really appreciate the tutorial and your comments. Just got back from the store and got my supply of cups the way and kind I want. They did refund on some they still stock from 2 years ago, hadn't opened them, that was nice of them, bought more than I took back. This one particular store brand was $2.79 for 50, 16 oz, 3" rim, don't know how deep, a little over 5 cents a cup, got 6 packages (some for next year and have some other bigger ones left over), still have to burn holes. I don't drink enough of that from convenience stores to save them up. Yes, I was looking at those smaller red cups, see I have a few, and the store had packets with lids like mine to fit those. Those would be nice, too, I thought, but enough for this year and I have a bunch of 4" pots I can use. The reason I like these store brand ones is that they fit perfectly, 18, into the daisy trays. Darned if I didn't leave 1 snap on lid at the store in doing that transaction, upsets my sense of order . . . maybe I can find one free that will fit lol. So silly to be like that. Picked up xtra baggies, too, store brand had flaps, didn't want those, regular brand were $1.78 for 150. I think the cups eat up soil pretty fast though even at only 3 inches once it's pressed down some and take longer to fill, plant counting out seeds than jugs and 2 liters. You just were able to kind of sprinkle your hosta seeds; I have to watch some of my expensive ones; others don't matter, pinches and sprinkles for those. So now to get 4 more bags of soil and a couple more things, and I should be set when my seeds come and the second wave; I pretty much have run out of perennials to plant and am waiting until mid or late March for the annuals....See MoreNewbie question about milk jug placement
Comments (5)Thank you for the slug warning! I was thinking the same thing... which was another reason I was thinking it is not a good idea to half-bury the milk jugs. I'm definitely going with the "tying jugs together with twine" method instead. I may end up moving the containers to the picnic table since we do get quite a number of slugs in our yard... Luckily I already cut the drainage holes on the sides of the milk jugs near the bottom! Some folks on here suggested cutting the drainage holes in the bottom sides of the jug instead of cutting the drainage holes on the flat part of the bottom... Hopefully the holes on the sides will drain better than holes on the flat bottom, especially if the milk jugs are sitting on a flat surface like a picnic table....See MoreQuestion for the Childhood Powdered Milk Drinkers...
Comments (16)my husband is 59. years old and when he was growing up they were very poor so they had to drink powdered milk. He has probably been to a dentist 4 times in his life and never brushes his teeth either. THen there is me who was raised on fresh squeezed milk LOL. We never had much candy when we were at home and we had to brush our teeth everyday. I remember from little on all of the problems I had with my teeth. First I had extra teeth growing out of my gums in front of the regular ones and in back of them so I always had to have them pulled out. I remember having tooth aches in the middle of the night and my parents would put whiskey on a cotton ball and I had to put it on the tooth to deaden the pain until the next morning when we could go to a dentist who was 22 miles away. Then after I moved away from home I had to go to the dentist a lot because I always had cavities, so almost all of my teeth have silver fillings. When they started doing root canals I said forget it and told them to pull them instead. Now I have spaces in my back teeth where the gums are even lower than the rest of them. Then I had two root canals done and caps put on them. I am 58 years old and I just hope the teeth I have now will last me all the days I have left. My teeth are really straight in fact some people think I have dentures which is a miracle considering the extra teeth I had and have never had braces. My mother was 23 when she got married and her teeth were so bad my dad had to pay to have them fixed. So I agree I think it is hereditary....See Moremike_il
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