Looking for plans

Started by P.C., May 04 06 01:41

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P.C.

Looking for plans to build a water feature.  This is as close to the look I want that I can find.  Mostly I want to know what equipment and materials I would need.  

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Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

kingy

hmm...this wasnt easy but try these sites. you may not get exactly what you want but you will get a pretty good idea...

  [A href="vny!://bellaonline.com/Article.asp?id=1033"]vny!://bellaonline.com/Article.asp?id=1033[/A]

[A href="vny!://www.taoherbfarm.com/herbs/resources/maketablefount.htm"]vny!://www.taoherbfarm.com/herbs/resources/maketablefount.htm[/A]  
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P.C.

Those are excellent kingy....thank you.  That's a really good start.  I know nadda about this, so need all the help I can get.  When you ask at Home Depot, they just want to sell you 'a water feature'.  I want the kind that makes a sheet or wall of water over a piece of glass and I want to make it myself (for under $200...lol).  They have a 7 foot one there, for $1500, and that's what they try to sell me.  Arrrrgh.

  I think those links you posted have at least given me the 'language' to ask for what I'm looking for.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

kingy

all fountains are just tubing and water pump. you can basically do any design you want once you get the right tubes and pump. if you break down that picture, it actually looks simple (of course it is probably alot harder than i think it is). i guess the hard part is getting the water to flow out the way you want it to.

  a large sheet of glass, a metal frame, rocks, and the bottom holder. you can probably put the pump on the bottom below the rocks so it is hidden, and run the tube up in the metal frame so nobody will see it.
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P.C.

You're probably right kingy.  I'm trying to avoid the 'frame'.  I just want it to look like a wall of water....a sheet of water without the framework....or at least a less visible frame.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Trollio

 P.C. wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]....I'm trying to avoid the 'frame'.  I just want it to look like a wall of water....a sheet of water without the framework....or at least a less visible frame.[/div]
 
 Very nice. I've seen that kind of thing in certain places, but have no idea how to do it.
 
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