adding a home made weir to our water feature.

[kirk]

Hi all some years ago I built a small water feature using some concete blocks and some old natural slate tiles removed from a floor. It been running for some years now and the weekend finally got round to sorting the weir that was in my mind. How it looked before....>

 

[kirk]

slate cut ready.

cut with a diamond blade on a 4 1/2" grinder.

I used silicone to assemble it.

had to cut the top out a bit with the grinder to lower it a bit.

 

[kirk]

Not happy with with hight so I'll put another pic up a bit later when I've set it in a bit further and got it running again.

cheers kirk

 

[kirk]

Just finished lowering the weir( may stop me wanting a wee so often in the night when the windows are open.) grid cut to fit around the weir.

I used a bit of vasaline on a cloth to liven up the tyles too.

 

[kirk]

Closer shot, I've also cut a few slithers of tyle so I can create eddies, and hold the water back. My two boys will be playing micro poo stick later

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[Edvet]

Won't the lillies mind the flow?

 

[kirk]

Hi, good point but it's only trickling off the end. They seemed ok with current from the filter before I made the weir so fingers crossed all will be ok.

 

[foxfish]

Great job you did too!

 

[电我PDA]

不错的

 

[James O]

不错的 is Chinese for 'good' according to google translate

Kind of a teeny tiny rill you've made there. If the edge is perfect and the flow totally steady you can create a curtain of near laminar flow that is totally silent - no more midnight toilet runs

 

[kirk]

It's not a perfect edge, most things I do/ make have the rustic look,....... Look good through one eye or from a distance. I will be having a fiddle now you say that. First I must make the kids bog frog pool quite it's making a racquet.

 

[Edvet]

most things I do/ make have the rustic look