Make a small trench for the tubing to sit in under the rocks, so that the rocks don't weigh it down. You'll essentially be building four mini-rock walls around the pot, to box it in. This housing won't show when you're finished: It will lie hidden at the center of your rock work. The idea is to have some sort of housing to hold the tubing in place while you lay up the rocks all around it. A crate made of rigid plastic would also work. For instance, a terracotta pot would be even better, since it provides more stability. You could easily substitute something else that might work better a plastic flower pot works simply because this is an item gardeners always have in abundance (and are dying to find a use for!). The flower pot simply functions as the housing for the tubing (within the cascading structure for the waterfall). In addition to seeking out relatively flat rocks with sharp edges, see if you can find rocks that are slightly cupped. How you lay the spillway rocks is also important to this end, as we'll see later. In sum, the idea behind the selection of spillway rocks for a cascade design is to choose rocks that are most likely to channel the falling water in the precise direction in which you want it to go. Not only is the cascading effect in the latter case less spectacular, but you'll also lose a lot of your water because it won't fall cleanly into the pond. When rocks have blunt, gently curving edges, some of the water tends to follow that curve and trickle back under the rocks. Water will cascade more cleanly over such edges. They should also have sharp, squarish edges. The spillway rocks should be relatively flat (as opposed to rocks that are more rounded in shape). This gives your cascade design two levels (separate waterfalls, if you will), for greater visual impact. You can consider using two such rocks, one above the other. The most important rocks are what might be termed the spillway rocks: the rocks directly over which the water will cascade. And that means taking another look at the rocks you'll be using.
Now it's time to turn your attention to a more exciting structure: the cascade design itself. With the pond complete, that means one of your two structures is out of the way. Since this water feature is intended only for decoration and for relaxation (it's not a fish pool or koi pond), there's no reason to keep it running if you're not there to enjoy it. Of course, if you're frugal, you'll unplug the pump when you're not around anyhow, to save money on electricity. Should the pond go dry due to water loss, you'll burn out the pump.Ĭonsequently, you must turn off the pump overnight or when leaving your property. But regardless of how well you do at minimizing water loss, it is prudent to check the level of your waterfall pond water periodically. Not even enough to suit you? Then extract the liner and scrape the sand at the bottom this way and that to even the liner until you're satisfied it is level.īefore moving on to the waterfall structure itself, a word of caution: Be sure to consider strategies for minimizing water loss from the start. Determine whether it's even by placing a carpenter's level on top of it (front to back, as well as left to right). Put the preformed liner into the hole for the waterfall pond. This slight elevation will minimize the problem of soil spilling into the waterfall pond. Apply approximately one inch of sand at the bottom, so that the rim of the liner stands an inch or so above the ground. Indeed, plan on shoveling sand into the bottom of the hole, as sand gives you a base that is malleable (allowing you to play with the height of the preformed liner). But if the hole ends up being too big, you can correct your mistake afterward by applying sand.
The depth and diameter of your waterfall pond's hole should roughly match the corresponding dimensions for your preformed liner. Besides, the overhang of the waterfall structure will just be in your way while digging. If you were to build the cascading waterfall structure first and then dig the waterfall pond, you might undermine those rocks. This entails placing some of the bottom rocks very close to the waterfall pond. Take care of the waterfall pond structure first, simply because you'll be laying your rocks for the cascading waterfall structure in such a way that the front of it overhangs the waterfall pond. There is an easy way to guide your shovel as you dig: turn the liner over on the ground, upside-down, where you want the pond to be, and trace out your circle. The Spruce Home Improvement Review BoardĮxcavate the hole into which your liner will be inserted.
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