Garden & Pond Top Tips

Delay cutting back perennials until the spring. The seed heads that remain provide valuable food for birds and other animals through the winter, while the stems and foliage provide valuable shelter for hibernating insects.

Eight metre high 7 piece fountain configuration

We were called in to establish why an existing fountain display had started to under perform. The fountain had been installed some ten years ago and hadn’t been physically touched in the last five. Ordinarily the fountain would achieve a height of approximately eight metres; it was now producing half of this.

Not being familiar with this installation, we set about understanding the fountains construction. This was impeded somewhat by its position in the middle of an incredibly large pond, which was approximately three feet deep.

The whole configuration weighed in excess of 150kgs and was based around two enormous submersible pumps, six medium shaumsprudler (foaming) jets and one centrally positioned large shaumsprudler (foaming) jet. This was all bolted to a supporting galvanized tubular frame work.

Further to four of us wrestling the beast out of the water, we recognised the frame work was rotten, one pump had expired and the plumbing to three of the fountains heads needed repair.

The whole configurations needed to be fully refurbished, so that’s what we did!

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