My husband has a vivid imagination and is very handy. We wanted a water feature similar to one we saw at the Technical Museum, and here it is: Water feature done ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) We wanted it to look like the tap's just hanging there, with water coming out of the spout, and I think we've come very close. Here's a close-up of the tap. My husband salvaged it from my father-in-law's to-be-thrown-away-crate several years ago. The handle on the top is newer. He can't remember where he got it from, so I guess that's a salvage too. ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) What do you think? Do you like it?
Chuckle....I like it! You know, I have seen this on one of those garden shows a few years ago on the BBC. That man of yours is quite clever to get it operational...but the part I like best is that it was salvaged. He's a real clever-cloggs,isn't he.
I've seen these in magazines... and of course I love it... and I may be the only that can't figure out the "secret" to get it to look/work like that! Can somebody enlighten me? Please?
Thanks all for liking our mid-air tap. I kind of hope they won't since our cats like to snack on birds. Not even magpies or seagulls are safe here. Thanks Cheryl. There's a plastic tube running from the tub to the tap, and the tap sort of rests on the tube. When positioned right, the water covers the plastic tube and makes it look like magic.
That must be a pretty strong plastic tube to hold up the tap. How is the bottom mounted? About what size is it? And then you run the tube from your fountain pump inside of this tube? Are you getting the idea that I may just want to build one of these too?
I have checked with the constructor. And it's a plastic pipe, not tube. Pardon my word confusion, I'm Norwegian. He says there's nothing special about the plastic pipe, it's store bought. It's mounted directly on the fountain pump that's sitting at the bottom of the tub. The tub holds approx. 40 liters of water. Husband cut a circular piece from a plexiglass pane, drilled a hole in the middle and put the tube through in order to stabilize it. There are several other holes drilled here and there in the plexiglass to allow the water to rotate freely. The bottom brass whatchamacallit is a new piece screwed on to the original tap. He had to find a piece that fit the pipe. The top of the plastic pipe, hidden by the sprout, has five or six U-shapes filed into it in order to make the water run evenly down the pipe's side. Husband says that if we get very strong winds, we might have to straighten the pipe afterwards. It's not storm proof, sorry to say. Am I coherent? Did you understand that?
Oh, I forgot to say that the plexiglass is submerged, only by three-four cm, so as not to show above the water. Anything else I forgot to say, I've forgotten.
Droopy I love how you describe things. Sound like me. I often say things like thingamagig or whatchamacallit to my hubby also. I am still laughing. I do love the look of that water feature though. Way to go hubby!
