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A DIY terra cotta pot fountain from a video tutorial. It looked easy enough but I was in for an education! So to make it easier for everyone else I made some modifications and I have even more in mind.
I saw this fun DIY terra cotta mint fountain tutorial on YouTube . It look easy and I ran out to buy all the necessary point to make it .
allow me just say I started this calendar month ago and every sentence I went to work on it there was some snafu or other . What to me should ’ve been a simple afternoon project turned into something much more .
I admit , it may just be me so if anyone tries to make the original and arrest it , please do share . I will link to the archetype at the final stage of the post .
This stake is not really a full tutorial but a retread of what I did and the changes I made to the pilot to make the whole process a bit less tedious .
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It does n’t look too defective , does it ? When you see the original you will find where this one is lacking but I am done with it for now .
If I feel industrious I will spurt on to make the allowance to make it better but in the meantime , this will have to do .
First off , I could not get the exact size pots that the instruction called for so that was dingdong # 1 . But we got stuffy enough to do the job .
The sizes for the original will be in the link at the bottom but you may do what we did and go with sizes that are airless if your garden center does not have the exact single .
The pump is one I had on hand but this is a link to one similar . I sprayed the large bottom dish with a few layers of Thompson ’s Water Seal clear multi - surface waterproofer .
I get each layer dry between re - spray . This stuff and nonsense reek so do this step alfresco .
I rob in water for a few hours the pieces that need to be drilled and/or filed so they would contain the dust and help , supposedly , prevent breakage .
I drill the top plate as recommended for the hosiery to go through . This step was fairly dim-witted and easy to accomplish .
But then come the filing of the notches in several composition . This is where you really find it tedious .
After file FOREVER , you feel you made very little onward motion and the rasping on the deal or knockout was like fingernails on a blackboard . I had a champion helping me and we both got really tired of it cursorily .
We even got a much more aggressive guts data file and turned it over to my husband to try and he found it just as annoyingly backbreaking .
I know there must be a major power tool that can get this done better and faster . Maybe a drum sander ? ? I even took my Dremel to it but I do n’t cerebrate I had the right closing piece of music .
Modification 1
In the orgininal architectural plan the largest pot has notches for the water to get under the lip to the ticker and for the cord to total out . Instead of filing notch for hours upon hours I just lifted the flowerpot with some older canning jar lid rings . you’re able to practice anything that will give it enough height for the water to get under and board for the electric cord . I covered them with rock ‘n’ roll but unless you are look directly down on it you really do n’t see the rings .
Modification 2
you’re able to see the water pours over the side of the terra cotta dishes rather than just through the spout and that is because my spouts are way too little . I generate the peach sit down atop the pots a bit of tilt with 2 pennies stack under one side , I used 3 pennies for the depleted dish .
It does a good caper of directing the flow of pee . The trickling strait is still marvellous despite it not being unadulterated .
Modification 3
The hosiery I had to get to feed from the pump terminate up being a much larger Doctor of Optometry than I had anticipate so it really puts out the water . I hide it with the rocks as it is n’t the pretty affair in the world but I was not pass to try and file big enough divets in another terra cotta dishful to set a potted plant on for something pretty .
I could find another method of ready a leaven field for a potted plant life and I may do that when I make out back and show you what I devised but for now , just rock-and-roll to hide the hose .
At least it is clear and not atrocious black tubing . The Stone do a good job of disguise it .
Here it is in action , despite it not being just right it does make a lovely , soothing audio .
UPDATE : After even some change I just was not thrilled with this fountain so I dismantled it and am using the constituent for other labor .
Here is the original jet tutorial that I based my version on . Menards Terra Cotta fount
Link to Pump
I bid you a successful natural spring edifice !
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