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filtration is not necessarily the hard part - a good pump with a biofilter setup (especially if you want koi's) and uvc will take care of it. if you do it right, you'll never even have to clean it except for flushing out the settlement chamber. the harder part is where to hide the filter so that it does not look out of place.
good luck and with a little planning and determination i believe what your trying to achieve is doable :)
julie
hiya - I did one about 8 years ago in clay ground on a slope (read very reactive site). about 2m by 1 metre with 2 m wall behind with a mirror on it - the concrete was average 150mm thick with f72 in it. After pouring, i rendered with a mix with a bit of bondcrete in it, and it never leaked. You will however need to clean it regularly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fr_303
Now, you dont want fish, but if its under a tree you will need to clean it out every few weeks - i simply siphoned mine to clean. make sure that wind doesnt naturally blow stuiff into the water (ie needs an edge so blowing leaves hit the edge (mine was flush with the ground - buggar!)
stacked stone can be stuck to villaboard on a timber frame or brickwork. The top of a water feature like that is going to be the tough part. Go to nurseries that sell these things and have a look at how they do it - some of them sell ss water walls, which are designed to cascade water over walls - they are $200 through to $600 each depending on width, then add pump and piping.
Unless you are really interested in designing it and building it for your self, consider buying one. Go to the ebay page listed above, show the missus, and see what she thinks. I bought one of crave designs ss water features with a swirl in the ss, have 2 lights shining on it, and no-one has in it yet! If you want bang for your buck, consider building a villaboard frame stick stacked stones to it about 2m wide, 2m tall, and put a crave designs 600w water feature in front of it, maybe some mondo in a planter surrounding. couple of hebel renedered benches with cushions, nice paving, and voila you have a backyard bliss, and your missus owes you a years worth ;)
We are currently building a pool and the wife wants one
of theese I dont know if it helps
http://www.hurlcon.com.au/water/falls.html
mate i built a very simple water feature for the outlaws they alreay had an existing blue board wall they painted with exterior swade effect (rough finish) i built a pelmet over the top of it got a 1200mm (4ft) length of 20mm light duty conduit and drilled a series of holes in a straight line with a drill about 3mm plugged and glued a plug in one end fastened underneath the pelmat painted it the same colour as the wall then had a stainless trough made up at work dropped the pump into it ran the piping up the back of the blueboard to hide it and connected it to the other end of the conduit mounted some low voltage downlights under the pelmet to throw light onto the feature very simple cost the inlaws abot $250 bucks did not pay me and they love it and everyone comments on it i will post some pics
Thanks would love to see the pics of itQuote:
Originally Posted by patty