Mounting a water feature

Mounting a water feature such as  a drilled rock, boulder or "bird bath" and you want to make it into a water feature / fountain but you are not sure how, well here is the answer.

Your sump can be made of almost anything suitable since it will not have to support any weight (the ground takes the weight)

You will also notice the grille that is surrounding the feature (rock in this case) it too takes no direct weight, but the supports  (bricks) do take weight. We suggest bricks for support as they are strong and should not deteriorate as breeze blocks may.

This is the most common way of mounting a feature, probably because it is also the easiest. Some commercial water features may have a separate pump / filtration chamber nearby this is usually so that the feature can be secured, but it will still require a sump, which in turn will require more pipework, bigger pump to over come pipe restrictions. You can of course mount lights in the chamber to shine through the grille, or even cover the grille with decorative material of your choice.

Your ornament can be any shape / size it could also be  "T" shape they are all done the same way. We actually used this method with our table fountain

When choosing a pump  it must have a head height of more than the height of of the ornament or rock (measured from the water level) so in this case if the ornament (2) is 2 m high you would opt for the EFN 110 as this can pump to 2m head, however as this is the maximum the EFN 150 can pump to you should opt for the next size up, which is the EFN 150. But, if you want a "really good flow" it would be best to go for the next pump after the the EFN 150 which is the EFN 200, this is because  a bigger pump can over come any pipe restrictions and you can turn a big pump down but you cant turn a small pump up.

We are sorry, the smallest pump we supply is the EFN 200, available form our components website.

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The only other thing you must consider is the JW rule

1 water

2 Ornament / rock etc

3 Grille

4 Supports

5 Sump

6 Water feed pipe

7 Pump

8 Supply cable