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Versatile wood

Wood is an extremely versatile material with which all kinds of exciting construction projects can be realized. You can use processed and unprocessed wood for composter, raised beds or garden furniture - or as a basis for a babbling brook on your own property. There are many great ideas for this:

• Construction made of overlapping wooden gutters that allow the water to flow down a slope
• halved and hollowed logs are for one Stream put together
• Substructure made of squared timber and slats, which is covered with pond liner (and can no longer be seen in the later stream)

Especially if you happen to be a couple Cut down trees the tree trunk stream is recommended as an unusual garden decoration. Unless, of course, you want to use it to cut logs for the stove. In addition, wood can not only be used for the construction of the actual stream, but also or instead for its lifelike decoration - for example in the form of thick branches that form the barrages form.

Choosing the right type of wood

So that you can enjoy your wooden stream for a long time, you should use the most robust and resistant types of wood for the construction. Soft woods such as birch, poplar and willow are not very weather-resistant. These rot under the influence of water within a very short time and therefore require very good moisture protection. Hardwoods, on the other hand, are much more resistant and should therefore be used with preference. These include types such as beech, oak, walnut or maple. However, these types of wood have a serious disadvantage: They are significantly more expensive than spruce & Co.

Protect wood from moisture

In order not to break the budget for building a wooden stream, you can use soft wood - and must do it very well protect from moisture. This can be done, for example, by using wood preservatives, whereby you only use varnishes and Glazes(€ 65.00 at Amazon *) Should use without toxins. Otherwise the poison could be washed out and damage the fish in the pond. But even without a fish pond they have such toxic substances in one Biotope nothing to look for. If the wood is only used as an invisible substructure, it is advisable to cover it with a good pond liner. It is essential to place a fleece under this so that any wood splinters do not tear the film and make it leaky.