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Post by madonplants on Apr 10, 2007 12:29:53 GMT 1
Can anyone give me tips on making waterfalls from stratch? As you know, I have the rocks! I would rather do it myself, than use a preformed one. After a brief search for 'making waterfalls' I get links to Amazon for various pop groups!!
Keith
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Post by sweetleaf on Apr 10, 2007 12:43:42 GMT 1
Didnt Mr Titchmarsh make one using pond liner? It was a few years ago now, though same principals as pond making, using liner and a barrier of some kind to prevent puncture Ill see if I can track it down..
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Post by sweetleaf on Apr 10, 2007 12:53:18 GMT 1
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Post by madonplants on Apr 10, 2007 13:15:20 GMT 1
Thanks SL.
Keith
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Post by The witch on Apr 10, 2007 17:54:00 GMT 1
Sean would know I'm sure.  |
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Post by seanmckinney on Apr 11, 2007 17:49:53 GMT 1
What sort of waterfall do you want? If you browse the bottom of s8.photobucket.com/albums/a9/seanmckinney/?start=all you shoud see photos of mine but mine are probably overly complicated as I had quite tight space boundaries and neatness requirements. The 'backing' of the top water fall is the old style Juwel structured background for aquarium, it looks like oak bark, the lower fall is cement. |
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Post by madonplants on Apr 16, 2007 0:13:01 GMT 1
I liked what you did in 2441 Waterfallthinnedoveral. I don't have that much of a slope to work with, so that would be a problem. I absolutely adore your stream and the way in meanders down!! Got to have a few periods of heavy thinking to do, Ime thinks!!  Oh I wish I had your talent or even half of it!! Thanks. Keith |
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Post by seanmckinney on May 3, 2007 8:53:02 GMT 1
I dont think I have skill or talent, just a stubborn streak that wouldnt let me quit until I thought it looked right. The rest is just down to having the tools, a 2kW angle grinder and a 9" diamond tipped stone blade/disc, btw such blades/disc are now only aboyt £14 in the likes of B&Q and WELL worth the money.
Where my water fall are is actually all built up land, I used the pond's digging spoil to create it, plus I built a block wall to retain it. I think the trick there is to have the plants or other garden features that dont make the raised land look out of place and to my eye I have succeeded there. I think planting and rocking the wall top helped greatly as rock wall are quite common here and dont look out of place.
If you try anything like this let me know and we can discuss it. The biggest mistake I have made so far is in not protecting joints well enough from plant roots. I have a major problem were the plastic basin forming the "splashdown pool" for the water fall (of 2441) is joined to the pond liner (at the 'far' end of that green channel, under the nearest rocks). Some roots have grown through the liner seaming tape joint and are the source of a fairly major leak. I dont know if I can repair it with out dismantling what is probably a weeks work around that basin.
Quite honestly my waterfalls and stream are over built in that most people would just did a channel in the soil and line it. But I wanted to fit quite a lot into a small space and have vertical load baring walls that wouldnt collapse over time, hence all the 'building'.
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Oh I wish I had your talent or even half of it!!