How to Build a Low Maintenance Water Feature (DIY)

Adding a water feature in your backyard is one of the compelling ways through which you can make your backyard attractive. It could be in the form of a DIY pond, water feature, fountain, or something else. No doubt, adding a water feature requires investment; however, you can add a low maintenance water feature in your outdoors and save money.

Ways of building a low maintenance water feature (DIY)

“How to build a DIY low maintenance water feature?” Check out the below given DIY water feature project with complete instructions for your garden or backyard. Before starting this process, you need to arrange all necessary tools and materials to use when required.

Step 1: First, you have to prepare a construction plan for a DIY water feature.

Step 2: Start research on fountain stones online; you need to search for the best local stone suppliers.

Step 3: It would be best if you bring drilled stones, but if you cannot find drilled stones, you can drill them yourself.

Step 4: Now you have to mark the location where you want to build a fountain; you can mark the edges with spray paint.

Step 5: Start digging out the marked space for the fountain, and make sure that the fountain ends six inches deep overall.

Step 6: Insert the carpet and linear pad in the bottom of the hole.

Step 7: Place the liner in the hole and push it to fit against the sides of the hole.

Step 8: Now, take a bucket, drill four columns of ½ in holes around the buckets, and set them in the hole.

Step 9: Use a spade bit to cut the rim off the bucket.

Step 10: Set all the buckets in the hole and spread gravel around the buckets one to two inches.

Step 11: Connect the water line to the pump and run it to the stone fountain, avoiding any spots where heavy stones would lay.

Step 12: Now, pour in the whole pea gravel and spread it till the edges. To even out of the surface, you can use a steel rake.

Step 13: Roughly adjust the water builder with a garden hose and test the water’s path.

Step 14: Connect the adapter to the waterline with a hose clamp for fountain fitting; after that, screw the elbow to the adapter.

Step 15: Now, cut the waterline to connect to the fountain fitting to the waterline.

Step 16: It’s time to test the water flow. So, run the pump and fill the basin. Fill the water around the stones to lock them with the pond foam.

Step 17: It’s time to decorate, you can set potted pond plants in it, and for top dressing, you can use perimeter edging stones.

Step 18: You can set water flow on your own by selecting the water pump. If you would like a small gurgling flow, then you can buy a 200 gph pump. But this style of water feature 300 gph water pump is best. We would recommend you to buy a low voltage water pump because it is easy to install and safer in wiring. It would be best if you bury the wire as much as deeper, also you can install a GFCI protected outlet. So, be careful while setting the wiring connection.

Conclusion

If you follow all of the above-listed steps, you can easily set up a simple and low-maintenance DIY water feature in your garden. Building a DIY water feature in the garden is an excellent way of giving your garden an attractive look at less investment.

However, if you want to add a more stylish water feature in your backyard, you need to look for a more stylish water feature in El Paso, TX. You can contact BomaniteAritistic Concrete & Pools, water feature construction in El Paso, they will recommend various water features with low maintenance.