and today's exciting episode I'm gonna show you how we built this
water feature okay so I'm not going to show you how we built it because
we built it many years ago and to be honest I can't remember how we built it
so first off that stainless steel trough was custom made and I never I never really worked
it sort of would just fill up and only flow out of one side of the water feature and in this side
here we just just wouldn't work I don't think it was level and the threshold here had only
just got over so it was never like a good solid water trickle so we put this copper pipe of the
back here and then the pipe fed into it and to a hose that's in the back of the trough and then the
idea is that once you have the water on the trough fills up and just keeps overflowing creating the
water feature on the back it's just sort of like a you know cement board on the back this is some
building paper here I remember putting that on and then at the bottom is just like a box okay
please continue destroying so on the back here is the middle flashing I remember doing this now I
put building rap on this frame that we've built and the cavity burdens are on all the studs and
then we've got like a six mil fiber light kind of material and that's just been painted gray
okay now you can see the actual wall in its entirety I can see we use some
h4 8 by 2 here 200 by 50 as our framing and then we put this building rap on the front
followed by a twin emo cement board and then this is like a tin mold sort of pebble stone
meshed tile you can see the mesh there and the glue so that was just a tile that was
applied to the cement board yeah yes how we built it and then from memory this 8
by 2 goes all the way down it attaches to to a war but let's take it apart and see
alright guys say what we built that thing to last that was a mission this here is the last upright
that I put on and it's sort of just it's a 200 by 50 from the top right down and it's cut like
this so you got the top there like that and then the back goes all the way down and it goes like
that and then this is the little retaining wall here and there's another wall there so it's been
nailed like heck all the way through there and then that way it's not sort of just a wall framed
on top of a dick it's can - leave it because of that you can't just wobble the wall over and so
I've just been cutting it along there and snapping it and then prying off this bottom part and now
this part of the structure it's pretty much two retaining walls these two here rubbery butanol
and that's where the water ran to and then it was pumped back up but it was never really
successfully pumped back up and that was half of the problem all right let's finish cleaning it out
well there you have it that's what's left of the wall what's left of my old man's water
feature it was a good idea but just didn't in reality it just didn't come together so
if you want to build a water feature that's how you do it just do a better
job of the trough at the top and water supply and you should be fine 27 kilos
well the scrap metal for that stainless steel trough was a
whopping $30 whoa sorry dad I took I took the stainless steel trough
to the scrapyard $27 that's er they gave me $30 they rounded up but um