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Holding water & water retention |
 From permanent to semi-permanent water features, koi ponds & an alternative to the sandbag for retaining water. The gobi building system units can make the job easy, fast, strong and imaginative.
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Water features
A DIY Gobi water garden or pond can be made in several different ways, each simple to construct some more simple than others. You can easily build a raised water feature by using the blocks as the walls of the water container using the base units as part of your foundation (you may want a single course of blocks sunken into the ground as a foundation) a liner is placed inside the built area, filled with water and carefully folded into the empty cavity of the gobi's. The top layer of gobi's used to make your water feature can be planted if filled with soil, maybe use boulders for landscaping, allowing plants to soften the edges, or capped by wood, large tiles etc to allow a solid edging or even a seating area to enjoy the calmness of the water.
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Sand bag alternative
Designed as a flat unit and prefabricated with a system of slots to be delivered to site flat packed, for ease of transportation, storage and construction. There are many advantages that the gobi building system has to offer over the traditional sand bag, and best of all its sustainable!
On the right there is a short video to show the gobi building system holding back water, as sand bags would do. BUT, sand bags would need to be built in a trapezoid configuration meaning many sand bags would be needed, considerably more then you would need to do the equivalent job with gobi's, and an even bigger plus is that gobi's can be simply be washed and re-used, unlike disposable sand bags that can only be used once.
Here is a 5 minute video showing the Gobi Building System holding back water, just as a sand bag would do, but unlike a sand bag the gobi building system is re-useable!
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The gobi building system holding back water. |
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