We Built a Backyard Beach!!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- This is how i built a beach in my backyard and didn't get kicked out of the neighborhood.... yet LOL!
I was literally born on the Bayou. I grew up in a house on the River Bank of North Louisiana where Bayou D 'Arbonne meets the Ouachita River and growing up our favorite thing to do was go swimming. Every kid hates to walk into a pond or river through muddy banks and every mom hates muddy feet tracking up the house so the only solution is to put in a beach. The turtles love it too and my kids have to be careful not to dig up the turtle eggs. The paddle boards and kayaks have a place to live up on the bank and they don't kill the grass. The local ducks pick up the sand and eat it so it will get trapped in their gizzards (which is basically their teeth) and help them chew food. It was such a great addition to our backyard and it was really very easy to do. We started by putting down landscaping material (link below) and staking it into the ground with landscaping stakes (link below). Then we screwed a few 2x6s into each other for the boundary and I staked them into the ground. Honestly the boundary can be nothing or as fancy as you want it. Then we started dumping sand. The sand is going to naturally wash down into the pond and create a sand entry down 5-10' into the pond and it will continue to wash out and need to be replenished every couple of years. Maybe more if you have a steep grade like i do. I actually had to dig a trench around it and put in 4" drainage to move the water so it wouldn't catch all of the runoff from my yard. That is the main purpose of the back stopped to cause rain water to go around the beach instead of through it. I can promise you that if you put a beach your kids will swim in your pond 100% more (whether swimming is allowed by the HOA or not). Kids don't usually read HOA contracts lol! Another addition to our house is the turtle log. My Bama (grandmother on dads side) always had a turtle log in her back yard and once I finally got my first house on the water I had to have a turtle log. The turtles use it to sun and digest their food and the ducks use it to sleep at night. Sometimes 5 or 10 ducks will sleep on our log.
This is incredible. The memories your family will make will last a lifetime. Good job man!
Epic as hell, suprised the prissy neighbors havent called the hoa lol.
The neighbors run the HOA!! They love it!! Great neighborhood!!
The neighbors run the HOA!! They love it!! Great neighborhood!!
Next up for the pond: wake surf boat. Now you're talkin!
Needs a cable park for sure. Not big enough for a boat ☹️
How fabulous !!!!
Awesome! Love it! 🥰🙌🏽
This is epic. You rock
How long has this lasted /do you think it will hold up? I love the retraining wall idea, but I've seen rain wash sand away within a year even next to small ponds.
It takes a little maintenance but no more than any other water structure. About $400 worth of sand per year
I placed a landscape barrier underneath it and added a retention wall past the water line to stop the sand from sliding into the pond.
Brilliance ant❤
Looks amazing!!!!
awesome
How's this going now mate? Looking at doing this in the lake we live next to in Australia
@@melikoliavu1958 Highly recommend it. One thing I would do different is run the landscape material up and down the slope rather than across. It’s started to push up as material gets underneath it. I have to bring in about 5 yards of mason sand a year in the summer because the rain washes it out bad. Make sure you build in drainage to divert water around the area to minimize it and maybe even a small bulkhead in the bottom to help it pile up.
Or depending on your access you could just bring a dump truck load in and let them drop it let it wash itself in. Either way the kids we treat the pond like a pool with a sand entry. The mud just ruins it for them.
Wow! Just bought a house on lake Darbonne in Farmerville and thinking about doing something like this. Where did you get the sand?
Any dirt and rock shop can get mason sand
Is this in Florida, any worries about Gators or snakes?
Nah. Snakes spend most their time worry about me! Lol. This is a community pond. Very few snakes and no alligators so far. We keep a close eye out.
How to watch sand wash away into the water is what they should be called