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Indoor Fountain Design Suggestions
Indoor Fountains have one major drawback - there's water in them! Building an indoor fountain that works well is even more satisfying than the design of an outdoor fountain, simply because water in the garden seems more commonplace than water in the living room. When you first construct a water feature indoors, you won't be able to keep your eyes off it for weeks, because it seems so strange to hear and see flowing water in the otherwise controlled environment of your living quarters. It also makes for great conversations, so if you really want to impress your friends, you don't need a Picasso on the wall, you don't need designer furniture, you need an indoor fountain
Water Management
Probably the most important to learn is - don't have standing water exposed to direct sunlight. It basically means that designs which features a pond, or any other collector of water which will not drain, is not advisable. The sunlight and warmth promotes rapid growth of algae, and a good looking pond will be reduced to a puddle of slime in a matter of weeks. So unless you intend to thoroughly clean your fountain every 2 weeks, don't even think about it. The simple rule to prudent water management is simply - use as much or as little water as you like, as long as all water will eventually collect back inside a covered reservoir that is out of direct and indirect sunlight, and even strong artificial light.
Design of Water Features
Anything goes, as long as it's waterproof and does not corrode. The pump gives you a head of water, so you want to use this potential energy to make the water flow over edges or shapes, through little viaducts, cascade from one bowl into other, or just free-fall into a collecting vessel. The main thing to bear in mind when designing water features is the splash factor - unless your fountain base area is huge and waterproof, you must control the impact of flowing water on solid objects, or even in small pools. Not only is splashing a nuisance, it also looses water from the reservoir at an alarming rate, so that you need to top it up much more frequently. The obvious rule is - if a jet of water impinges on a solid object, try to make the angle of impact 45 degrees, or more, shallow.
Materials
For mechanical fountains, Aluminium is hard to beat. It's easy to cut, easy to bend, and off course it doesn't rust. Tinplated steel plate has the advantage that it can be, but it will eventually corrode at the edges, and no amount of paint will hide it. Aluminium can be bonded with Chemical Metal, as long as the connecting faces have been roughed up previously with sandpaper. For more Design information of Indoor Fountain visit us at IndoorWaterFalls.net.
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