[Stonehenge]

Is it my imagination, or is there such a thing as a woven pond liner? I saw something like this in my area - looked like a woven material that had then been coated with a plastic/polymer/rubber. It was thinner than 45 mil EPDM, but much stiffer.

If you've seen it/heard of it, have you heard of any benefits of using it over EPDM?

[Stonehenge]

Here's a pic of the stuff:

[P-Train]

Never seen it before.

Pond liners are like brakes.

You never want them to fail.

Always use the best.

[Stonehenge]

I did a little googling and found a product made by Yunker Plastics called Aquaweve. Might be good for large applications - looks tough enough to lay large stones on.

[PSUscaper]

with all the recycling going on, you think they would make a rubber pond liner made from recycled tires......

I wonder if you could make a sticky mixture of ground up rubber tires and spray it on like gunnite to the ground and make a in place pond liner???? Kind of like a 'rhino lining' for trucks......but for ponds instead!

Wait......i'm thinking out loud too much here! I'm gonna pull out my 'inventors patent kit' and work on this!

[justgardens]

Pennascapes-Go for it!

[Bill Schwab]

There is a company whp uses a chop gun with a vulcanizing system and sprays rubber over the ground. It is pretty expensive and usually 3 inches of so thick. That is the problem with recycled tires. To pulp them, the machine used to shred them is like a tub grinder for rubber. It shreds them, extracts the steel, and conveys the rubber into a roll off bax. Every 25 hours the machine is down to replace hammers and parts, which, are costly and labor intensive..

[Stonehenge]

I gave a call to Yunker Plastics, the company I saw this info about on the web. To my surprise, when I described the project, she suggested I use 45 mil rubber, and not their stuff!

There stuff is 20 mil, and is lighter than 45 mil rubber. It is woven, and then treated on the front and back to make water-tight. They're sending over some info, but it sounds like this product, other than it's weight, doesn't offer any advantages over a 45 mil liner, except that it can be made to any size, up to 365' x whatever (100', 500', etc).

Here I was hoping I had uncovered this newfangled thing that would solve all my problems, but I guess not.