Enjoy the soothing sounds of falling water with your own backyard waterfall, simply constructed in your open yard, garden or pond area. Waterfalls come in all sizes and varieties. Fiberglass kits can be used for very minimal construction of a waterfall, but most people appreciate the natural beauty of stones and landscaping from a custom waterfall. If you have a low garden or pond area, keep your waterfall a low, gentle slope for the best consistency of form and style for your relaxing waterfall garden. Step 1 Plan before you dig. Consider how high a slope you want for your waterfall and how big a pool you want. For a shallow pool that is 12 feet by 14 feet, think of a maximum fall distance of only 18 to 24 inches. Dig out the space for the lower pool. Cover the base of the pool with sand, pack it down and then place small landscaping rocks over the sand to achieve an ocean floor look. Or install rubber pond liner to keep the water cleaner and prevent erosion. Step 2 Mound the dirt from the pool into a straight slope or sloping steps at the side of your pool. Shape this into a small hill, sloping down toward the pool at the angle you wish to have for your waterfall. Step 3 Set up y more...

Outdoor waterfalls are artificial decorative pieces that have a system of continual flowing water as in a real waterfall. They can have many patterns, shapes and sizes according to personal preference. Their most important components are a basin in which water is made to fall, a submersible pump which allows the water to rise up again, and a cascading slope which channels the falling water.   The common materials used for outdoor waterfalls are copper, slate and stone. All these materials are non-rusting and are not affected by water or humid air. Their heights can vary from a few inches to a towering ten feet or more. They can be designed in any perceivable color, but the common colors are brown, gray, green, beige and black. The pump, and hence the whole waterfall, is driven by electric supply and can be turned off when not required.   People place outdoor waterfalls in their gardens or backyards. These serve mostly as a curio and an attraction, beside which parties and conversations are held. Outdoor waterfalls are also designed to cascade into swimming pools to create a continuous water effect.   The sound of water splashing in the basin creates a soothing effect, which can more...

Backyard Waterfall Benefits:   • Backyard waterfall contributes motion and sound of splashing water to your backyard. • The design of backyard waterfall determines it elicits, exciting or calming, energizing or restful. • A waterfall, regardless of it size, adds extraordinary and mysterious view to any backyard. • A force of the flowing water will help to minimize external and unnecessary noises. • Whatever backyard waterfall you choose, it will bring wonders and excitement and also, will set your backyard apart from the ordinary. • Because water is a part of the nature, it easily harmonizes with any house and backyard. • In dry climate, a backyard waterfall is a welcomed oasis. • In cold regions, it brings year-round enjoyment.   Some Keys Consideration:   Backyard waterfall becomes a place to gather around, sit, watch and relax. Any backyard can make you feel more enjoyable with water. Water adds a soothing, calming element to a hectic life.   Active water is different in the way it moves, such as a “cascading”, “rocky waterfall” or a “falling brook”. Active water features open up a new sensory perception – the sound. more...

Artificial backyard waterfalls can be in the different shapes and sizes, but usually combined with pond or pool, hanging over and bringing down water to them. Besides external appearance, water falling from height has the greatest decorative value; therefore, you have to determine a layer thickness of falling water, especially appreciated in backyard waterfalls. On borders and rocky ledges the mountain plants that are not required great volumes of the soil for the root system and resistant enough to winter can be planted. The backyard waterfall – bright element of a house, also can be equipped by a special place for a meditation, also can be added such composition as the Alpine pavilion, the Japanese arbor or a verandah in the Chinese style. The composition can focuses specially on a waterfall, making it as central element of the backyard. The technical aspect of building a backyard waterfall relate to other constructions, but as well cardinal difference. First, it is careful calculation of all complexes, especially the foundation that constantly falling water influences to a bottom, “beating out”, deepening in a falling place, and influence all design, causing more...

Before designing a backyard waterfall you should inspect some natural basin at the top of the fall, area around, sides, and bottom of a fall. Observe how the water spills over and around the rocks, and how far it falls. Visit public or private places that have waterfalls, fountains, ponds, streams. Look at pictures and photos. Ask designers to show you waterfalls that they have completed.   Style When you have collected designs and ideas, join it into your plan, note others. The design of your waterfall should be visible now. A formal design can have geometric forms, such as a straight canal, stepped falls, or a wall that water drip over. The best building materials for formal design include cut stones, slabs, tile, glass, metal, and acrylic. The backyard can include ground grass, trees and shrubs.   An informal or realistic design usually includes a single fall way, surrounded by a rocks and plants. Or you can choose for multiple-cataract waterfall, where more than one stream flows over the fall way. The plumbing for this design utilized a manifold behind the falls that divides the pipeline from the pump into two or more lines. Each line has its own valve to adjust how much wate more...

If you wish to plunge into magic of water, to feel its divine beauty, to be filled with its force, you could create on your own backyard the decorative waterfall – magic water feature that will bring calmness to your soul and coziness to your house.   Professional companies are able to help you with it, to build an artificial backyard waterfall with decorative pond or artificial stream in any forms and the sizes using proper waterproof technology.   The experts will able to create according to your desire the cascade decorative waterfall, install the basic equipment for artificial pond (pumps, piping, filters, lighting systems, etc.), and add to your waterfall colorful illumination and remote control system.   “Liquid plastic liner “, applied for pond waterproof is strong multicomponent material. It is product of the newest technologies and successfully applied in northern regions of USA. It used in the hydraulic engineering and other constructions having contact to aquatic environment (dikes, canals, bridges etc.).   The basic advantage of such material in comparison with PVC liner or rubber liner, most often applied to waterproof finish of waterfalls, is laying more...

Backyard waterfalls are often coupled with a pond for a beautifully varied and multidimensional scheme in which the waterfall is the focal point. However, they can also exist without one, as a pondless waterfall and stream that can run as much as six feet in length. Naturally, the first design is more involved than the second, which was created for homeowners who, for safety or cost reasons, don’t wish to have a pond on their property.   Waterfalls in themselves consist of a synthetic-and-stone lined basin filled with water, a pump that circulates the water from the basin to the top of the waterfall via a Centipede module, and the bacteria-filled filter which receives the basin water via a PVC pipe. This filter– camouflaged by rocks, plants or flowers – is located at the very top of the waterfall structure, from which it releases the freshly cleaned water as the actual waterfall.   About Backyard Waterfall Backyard waterfalls come in special, user-friendly kits that cost about the same amount to purchase and install as a hot tub. These kits are designed to be as easy to use as possible for the handy homeowner. However, homeowners who don’t wish to assemble more...