I’ve been noodling over building some kind of water feature in the backyard for a lot of years now. Since I had a couple weeks off before starting a new job, I figured now was about as good a time as any to finally tackle this project.
It started off with a lot of design research and figuring out where I wanted to put the thing. A backyard water feature can quickly start taking up a lot of real estate. It was when I stumbled across a YouTube video of this square concrete bubbler design when I really became motivated.
I was ready to spend many hundreds of dollars to make a fairly rudimentary outside water feature. My total damage was $109.88, and that included everything. I used nothing that was lying around the house or the garage.
I admittedly got a little eager and tried transporting the fountain before it was fully cured. I tried transporting it from the garage to the backyard on a kids scooter. It fell at cracked at two corners. I was able to set it upright and it’s functional, but I don’t think it’s long for this world as I’ll have to move it for any cleaning and maintenance.
