That is so amazing to me! The angels are PRECIOUS! ! ! Did I see that you are in So.CA ? I have a daughter in Murietta! When I come to visit, I'll have to MAKE her go with me! She'd be hooked in an hour! You'lI have to tell me whether its a public place or in- front- of- homes sort of thing where you go junking! I would probably have gotten so tickled trying to get the angels out of the trash that I could 'wet my pants'! ( That's Southern Alabama Drawl, for you! LOL) I've not found anywhere to do that sort of thing here on the Gulf coast, AL now-a days. . .Years ago, a friend & I would go behind the shopping centers and check the trash. We found all kinds of things_ pretty, fixable lamps with only slight flaws, baskets, telephone cords, sets of dishes where 1 or 2 peices were chipped or broken. We also found perfectly good, working clock radio behind the 5 & Dime Store (That was a real find then_ early 70's!) But here, now-a-days, they have those huge metal receptacles that I couldn't even reach! You'd have to bring a ladder! Besides, you can get arrested! Maybe I should try inside the city limits on trash pick-up days !?! Go for it, girl! That sound like the MOST FUN! GrandsFun

I have a waterfall going into a small hard-sided pond, and had a similar problem. The falls are only about a foot high, and maybe 18 inches wide, but I would lose about 4 inches of water in 6 hours. The pond itself held water for days with no loss, but as soon as I turned on the falls...poof, water gone. It was driving me nuts! After doing a lot of reading here, and elsewhere, I discovered the concept of "wicking", or capillary action. Apparently, water CAN run uphill, under the right circumstances. If a waterfall liner runs over the edge of a pond and is tight up against the side of the pond, the water in the pond can be pulled up between the underside of the liner and the pond side, and be sucked into the soil. I found no other possible explanations, so I came up with a plan to possibly stop this, IF that was what was happening. First, I laid down a thick seam of expanding foam where the underside of the falls liner came over the edge of the pond. This was not intended to seal the seam so much as it was intended to just lift the liner away from the side of the pond. Once the foam was cured, I went back and "painted" the foam with a thorough coat of aquarium-grade silicone. I extended the silicone out from the foam about an inch in every direction, getting the liner AND the side of the pond. This WAS intended to seal every tiny crack and seam, and I did a thorough job of it. It looked terrible, but the liner covered all of it, and no one will ever see it! Then I trimmed off some excess liner where it draped into the pond, on the theory that the turbulence from the waterfall was causing the underside of the liner to be wetter, which could cause or worsen the wicking. (A shorter liner might "catch" fewer bubbles and splashes on the backside.) Then, as a final step, I added a bead of silicone to the underside of the bottom rocks of the waterfall, as a "drip edge". I put the bead about one inch back from the edge of the rock. I let the silicone cure for 24 hours, turned on the waterfall, and waited... Total success. It has been running for 2 days now, and has lost maybe a 1/4 inch...mostly from splash-out and evaporation I suspect. I know the drip edge is working because I can see water coming off the underside of the bottom rocks. I do not know if the shorter liner is having any effect. But the liner itself is most definitely being held away from the pond side by the foam, and the silicone is certainly blocking the crevices. Not sure what part is doing most of the work, but the combination is doing the job! What a relief.

marcojohnson: Your corner can be made to look much nicer with a little effort and expertise. All solid surface joints, and yes, quartz is considered a solid surface by industry standards, are to be considered "inconspicuous", not "invisible". Yours look very nice. Methelmethacrylate seams shrink as they cure, that's why they're overfilled and scraped to flush after curing. If you scrape off the squeeze-out while it's wet, it will shrink below flush, creating a more noticeable seam. I'd hit it with some cyanoacrylate, catalyze, and scrape it and see how it looks and feels. I'm not aware of any quartz manufacturer that recommends top seam polishing and I wouldn't recommend it here. The technology just isn't here yet and I've bought and tried almost every system and taken the classes. Fabricators should retard catalyst on white seams. Adhesive manufacturers and fabricators like consistent set up times, but if the adhesive is mixed in a baggie instead of being shot through a mixer tip, a third of the catalyst can be removed. The seam takes longer to set up, but it is much less likely to yellow. If your seam yellows, it probably won't show up for at least a month or so. You can see a picture of a yellowed white seam on my IKEA Tampa thread. It is very difficult to evaluate seam quality from laptop pictures.

First of all, we have put a whole lot more expanding foam around and now the pond is only going down about an inch per day, which I can live with!! The pump is in the pond. We have checked for plumbing leaks and found none. Actually this only started when my ten-year-old hose cracked and we had to redo the plumbing. There was no leakage for at least five years, until that pump hose gave way. Anyway, it's good enough now, and thank you for the the compliment! I love my pond. It's only three feet across, but in New York City, it's paradise.