The COOLEST Water Feature to DIY
The COOLEST Water Feature to DIY
Made this for my Wife 🙂
I made a followup Q&A Video! Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifVnUNPQeV8
Links:
Liner –
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Pump –
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Light –
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Timer –
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Hello my name is Travis Jantzer! I’m a vlogger from Oregon in the PNW. Online I go by TJantzer. My wife’s name is Cassie and our daughter born in spring of 2019 is named Hazel. If you watch our videos you’ll learn we love rock climbing (particularly bouldering), ultimate frisbee, road trips, diy projects, and drones. We converted a van to a camper for vanlife and take road trips when we have time. We play ultimate in the fall. Climb in the gym from fall to spring. Play Frisbee again in the spring. And play sand volleyball with our friends through the summer. I wrote a book and love writing poetry. Cassie loves watercolor painting and pencil sketching. We both enjoy cooking though she is way better at it. I started on Youtube in 2011 but did not take it seriously until 2018 and even then I was inconsistent. In 2020 my resolution is to make one video every weekend and post it by Tuesday of that week. My passion is video editing. I started doing wedding videos last year and this year got a job shooting real estate photos and video. I still consider myself an amateur, but I’m learning something new with every video.
My goals for 2020:
1 video every week
500 subscribers on Youtube
$10,000 earned from local video and photo gigs ($1000 earned but, Covid..)
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Very clever just found your channel, glad I did cheers.
just call it a FOUNTAIN…….am I the only one that dislikes the word "water feature"?
Looks awesome what concrete did you use?
Covid killed off some projects summer 2020 as I could not always get the parts. I like this for a 2021 project and have been thinking it might be cool to incorporate some very colorful tiles on the exposed surfaces. It makes the project more complicated but gives you a chance to play with color. (I studied Gaudi when I was in college)
What kid of board is used for the base. How heavy is this water feature
Thanks for this easy to make novel, modern art, water fountain. It’s the best design I’ve seen for a DIY fountain. I plan to make a small one – 15" tall with a container underneath covered with rocks for water storage and pump, to put on the raised platform of my wood stove as a work of art that provides soothing water sounds. Concrete is perfect in an area close to a woodstove.
Nice but what happens when that wood rots over time
Why not just place a couple of the round rocks/or some unique rock on the bottom instead of the board? I love it though. Solid fountain.
Build a lip around the sides and put some smaller or med size river rocks on the horizontal flat part
You’re awesome! so glad you made this, we were going to do a rain curtain with more steps involved and you came in at the right time for ours. We do want to go 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide, hopefully we can move it ? So I guess I ill need a 800 plus for pump momentum
This is fantastic!! Great idea, thanks for sharing
Nice work bud landscaping my yard currently from Melbourne Australia
Great video – thanks for the tips
love those kinds of water feature installation so relaxing to have. I just have mine done by https://purelyponds.com/water-feature-installation/ it has become our favorite hangout now.
Not trying to be negative but I see a couple things in your build that will be problems in the future. First the plywood you the the concrete sitting on will rot very quickly and the concrete will likely fall over. Secondly without a plastic basin underneath it will make it difficult to drain in the winter. To fix these you could use a plastic tote for a basin. Then use a material called egg crate to support the cement block. Its plastic won’t rot and holds a lot of weight.
Just found Travis! ! Wow! Loved his straight to the point no nonsense diy video’s and loved his fountains! I’ll watch him again..hope to start making fountains for our new home! Thanks Travis!
Great job! I would like a taller one like 6 ft tall. Do you think I would have to angle the concrete for less noise?
love this. i have been looking around for tub sizes for the water, or how to set it straight, like on posts. but you just used pond liner and concrete blocks i think. sounds much simpler.
Now I’m wanting to start making one of these of my own. Maybe even tweak the design?
How about a Video at NIGHT so we can see the Fountain Lights
You could add a piece of steel angle in place of that wood. Every steel yard has a cutoff section where you can pick smaller pieces to avoid paying for a whole stick. They’ll even cut it to the exact length you would need. It would rust to a natural patina that would look great there.
Very cool
Hey guys so I’ve put a 400 GPH pump on the water feature and it runs pretty nice, a little quieter with the less water. When you’re picking a pump size anything between 400 and 800 gallons per hour should work!
I spray my concrete molds with Pam before I pour the concrete. Mold comes off easy.
Love it
Beautiful! Could this be done with hypertufa? Any chance a solar pump would work?
OPINION– the sound of falling water hitting concrete or rocks is the magic ingredient that makes the serene, calming emotional response, which is certainly what I would desire. Unless it’s SO loud it’s a disturbance to you or your neughbors. You touch on that at the end. A timer is a good solution for at night.
Just amazing.. That is cool.
My ponds are natural looking but I love what you did.
Does your wife know how lucky she is? A man that can DIY is a keeper. Ok, stupid question, but what is the water source? I’m really confused.
If Your Neighbor would complain of a running waterfall they have some serious problems, If it was a noisy Rooster I could understand but running water is really relaxing
Lov it…I want mine 6 feet tall…oh yeah
Very clear
is the water all constantly recycled?
Love love love thank you for your talent
Woow amazing garden..
My thought on dampening the waterfall impact noise would be
to just set larger creek or river rocks on the concrete sill.
Something sized to be large enough to hold their position
and not be knocked off by the flow?
What about using a cement backer board, doubled, for the base, instead of plywood?
For the 20" one for you mom, what size wood did you use for the mold? 1×4?
Nice looking, but the timber it is standing on will rot and collapse. (Yes, not strait away, but it will, better to use bricks)
Very nice project and interesting video.
I might avoid placing any wood / plywood under a wet concrete
yard fountain if I did this one.
Looks great!!!
How long will the wooden base you attached to the bottom last?
KOHL !!!!!
Very nicely done!
My question is is did you cover or wrap the flat plywood the cement structure sits on above the lined hole under the working water feature to preserve the flat board?
Travis Dear,
I loved your water feature …❤️❤️❤️
However I have three issues that need a solution.
1) In our country fungus develops on and around wet rocks and even in pipes . How to keep fungus at bay ?
2. How to clean , empty and refill the water . I would really appreciate if the water had two systems … One for drainage alongside simultaneous filling of fresh water. The underflow could water plants near and around. While the other is to circulate the water for the fall.
3. How does the water fall almost evenly along the bar, giving an effect of curtain water fall? Is there a slant on both sides from the center, for water to flow along before falling ?
Plz guide me.
Thanks for this beautiful video & Regards
Rashmi Talwar
India
14 Oct 2020
That looks awesome great idea. Also the wood you use to dampen the sound gives it a nice touch.
those water features are amazing, would love to copy some of it to add to my backyard. We have a pond made by PurelyPonds.com and with those added my backyard will look amazing.
Man, great video! Simple, once you showed it, and very elegant too. I like the louder water sound of this one so it will drown out street noise when in use.
How big is the square inside?
Nice I like the concept very cool man