Building Artificial Backyard Waterfall


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...




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August 24, 2009 at 12:06 am


Filters for Backyard Waterfall


Filters help to keep clean, healthy water by stopping dirt and algae. To work properly, all the water in the waterfall should go through the filter every 2 hours. The 3 main types of water filters are biological, chemical, and mechanical.   Biological filters At their nature, biological filters are alike to mechanical filters in those, forced water flows through a filtering agent. The difference is that the filter basis have a colony of live bacteria that consume ammonia and harmful elements, converting them into nitrites and then into nitrates for use again by fish and plants. The system needs on the constant motion of water, and thus oxygen, through the filter to keep bacteria alive.   Usually biological filters are installed outside the basin and can be covered behind plants or stones. A pump must be reliable.   Chemical filters Chemical filtration means using water cleaning agents to attack particular impurities. This method is often used in small waterfall or pond without plants or fish.   Mechanical filters Mechanical filters use a straining mechanism to catch dirt in the water. It circulates water through a box containing granules of fuel ash or activated carbon, brushes more...


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June 20, 2009 at 3:47 am

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