What you need for the garden fountain with a waterfall
There are many different ways to build an ornamental fountain with a waterfall: For example, the water can fall from a wall made of stainless steel, bricked natural stone or concrete into a basin below, from a hill made of polygonal plates or larger natural stone chunks into a tub or from one Artificial rocks fall down into the garden pond. There are countless ideas that you can implement yourself with the right materials, the right tools, a little manual skill and sweat. To do this, you definitely need the following components:
- Water catchment basin: This can be a disused bathtub, a mason's bucket, a large planting tub, a rain barrel or another sufficiently large basin.
- Basic materials for waterfall: depending on the project, polygonal slabs, concrete slabs, natural stone chunks, artificial rocks or just concrete and pond liner for modeling
- Cement / mortar, gravel, sand
- a pump with a pumping capacity corresponding to the amount of water, including hoses
also read
- Artificial waterfall: You will need these materials to build yourself
- Build a waterfall wall yourself - what options are there?
- Build a stream with a waterfall yourself - a brief introduction to simple options
Choose the right pump
For an ornamental fountain with a waterfall, you definitely need a submersible pump that is installed at the lowest point of the system. The different types of pumps have different capacities, which determine how much water is transported and how strong the waterfall will flow or even rustle. Of course, you don't need a powerful pump for a small, bubbling waterfall. However, you need a lot of power - especially not only in terms of delivery rate, but also delivery head - for a large waterfall with a powerful jet.
This work needs to be done
To install the garden fountain with a waterfall, basically perform the following works:
- Creating a foundation, compacting with sand and gravel
- Burying the water basin, placing the pump in the water basin
- Construction of the waterfall on the edge of the water basin
- Laying and hiding the hoses and cables
- Attaching the outlet nozzle
- Decoration of the pool, pool edge and waterfall
Tips
Another interesting idea are fountains that are combined with one another, in which the water falls in stages from one ceramic container into a second and from there into a third.
