Fountain Furniture: Make sure the fountain furniture head will create the right effect for the water feature. BELL: a fountain furniture that produces a sculptural, almost semi-circular sphere of water which falls in a bell shape from a central pipe.
BUBBLE: this head makes a natural-looking, low fountain furniture of water which bubbles up gently as though issuing from a spring.
COLUMN: two or three columns of white water shoot up in a neat and stylized manner. This works well for a modern design.
GEYSER: the geyser fountain furniture forces water up into the air, sometimes to a great height, to give a natural-looking rush of foaming white water and a gushing sound.
ANOTHER ATTRACTIVE water feature is a fountain furniture which, like a waterfall, is operated by a submersible pump sitting on the floor of the pool, or on a platform of bricks or blocks if the pool is deep. Indeed, some pumps combine a fountain furniture with a flexible hose outlet that can feed a waterfall as well.
The important thing is to choose a fountain furniture that will not overpower the effect of your pool. It should not shoot its jets so high that wind-blown spray falls outside the pool, nor should it be over-elaborate if the pool is small. fountain furnitures are ideal for formal pools but should not be included in those that are supposed to look natural—the two just don't go together.
In most cases the fountain furniture outlet simply projects above the pump and it can usually be fitted with a range of fountain furniture heads that vary the pattern of the water jets. The pump should be positioned so that the head just projects above the level of the water in the pool, if necessary raised on a piece of paving. |
