Choosing the Location of Your Custom Water Feature and Installing It

At Bedrock Landscape & Boulder Supply, we’ve been building attractive, functional, customized water features for years. Due to our experience, we’ve developed a series of tips to aid in choosing the best location for your water feature and installing it. The location of your water feature is very important and there are several things to keep in mind when considering the placement.

• Water over-splash is inevitable with any type of water feature. While keeping this in mind, be sure to choose a location that is able to handle an occasional over-splash. Most of the time over-splashing is the result of wind. Again, take into consideration the direction of the prevailing winds around your home or company’s building.
• The taller the feature, the more it will splash out and be affected by the wind. Keep this in mind too when thinking of the perfect feature in your desired location.
• Be sure that the area you choose will be able to allow you to create a pond large enough for your water feature. On our main website, you can get a reference to the height of the water feature you’re interested in which also determines the diameter of your pond. Our pond kits come complete with all the parts needed to complete your water feature. Kit includes: Pond underlayment, liner, valve box, pump (3 year warranty), and plumbing supplies.

The following pictures will give you step by step instructions on how to easily install your own pond and water feature. Important Note: We strongly advise you to call 811 before you dig to locate any underground utility lines. Simply call 811 on your phone at least two days before you plan to dig so that local authorities have time to come out and check the area.

- After you have determined the desired location for your main fountain piece, you need to select where you want to put your valve box that houses the water pump. Dig the hole for your valve box and then build a berm around the outside edge of your fountain area. The berm is designed to retain the water for your pond. Make sure your berm stays within the size of your pond liner.

- Lay out the pond underlayment and liner across the hole for your valve box and berm. Push the pond underlayment, liner and valve box into your hole. Do not cut your liner yet; let it hang over the berm.

- Now that your valve box is in place, lift the lid to the valve box and set the pump into the valve box. Hook-up the plumbing from the pump to your water feature and close the lid.

- Fill-up your pond with water, plug in the pump, and check to see that water is running out of your feature. Now that the water is running, you can estimate the splash area and determine the final shape of your pond and how you want it to look. Make sure your liner covers the entire diameter of your pond or water will leak out. After you are sure of the size and depth of your pond, you can trim any excess liner that hangs past the berm of your pond.

- Now that you have determined the final shape of your feature, you can begin decorating your pond with your favorite stone. We always recommend thoroughly rinsing the decorative rock before installing into your feature. Your water feature is now complete. We also stock a variety of driftwood and boulders that would make excellent additions to any pond or water feature.

- The finished product! This is a great example of a simple, easy to install, beautiful Bedrock water feature.

Here are a couple more examples of finished fountains:

We hope that these tips and directions will be helpful to you when you get ready to start the exciting and rewarding task of installing a beautiful water feature at your home or business. We also have a short video tutorial that covers many of these steps as well which may be viewed on the home page of our website or here in the blog. Please feel free to email us, stop by our office or call us if you need further assistance.

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