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Constructing your own Water Wall

The idea of creating an Indoor Waterfall is amazing, and it’s something that you can bring to fruition. If you are passionate about this stuff, you can really take things to the next level and create a cool, amazing Water Wall. The process can take a little bit depending on your experience levels, but it can be a lot of fun and you will certainly enjoy it. This plan we are outlining here is simple, but it will give you a good idea of what you can expect when you create a WaterWall on your own.

Start planning

You can’t create a great DIY Indoor Waterfall without a plan. You need to see where the Water Wall will fit, how high you want it to be and so on. Make the right measurements, experiment with multiple locations and then find the perfect spot for it. This will take a bit, but it will be worth it.

Building the pump station in the basement

Your pump station needs to be at the bottom of the Water Wall This is where you build the...

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In this video i will shortly show you how to make a glass wall water fountain, because i just came right out of the workshop where we did a test setup for a glass water wall as you can see here, because we always test the water wall before we deliver.

And in this short video i'm going to show you the basic principle, which is actually pretty easy, if you know how to do it and if you have the correct dimensions. But the most important thing is the overflow channel which we build in stainless steel. As you can see here in the video, we go from above with a hose, then inside this overflow channel we have a sub-distribution, which i will not explain in this video. You can find more detailed explanation on the sub-distribution in another video in my channel or you go to our water wall school at wawazen.net as described below and linked, where you can buy the glass water wall mastery course and also we have there a free course, where you...

Please have a look at this video of a water wall, that was made with my plans by one of my customers.

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Here you can see a very big water wall. It is around about 6m high and more than 3m wide in a very excusive, expensive 5 star hotel and guess what: it was a big desaster. Well, i didn't build this one, actually the customer called me to help him fix it.
Let me show you the biggest problems: Here you can see, what it is now looking like, actually they just turned it on to show me how it looks like. And as you can see, the water is running behind those dirty glasses. And, it doesn't look really good. The problem was thoses natural stone tiles, they made the water splash and drop away and here they try to fix it with silicone and the problem is that silicone is making the water loosing contact to the surface and then it dropped away.
So, actually the whole project was from the beginning, well, a real big problem and then they tried to fix it and each fix led to another problem. So, this is a wall which is covered with natural stone...

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Hello guys, this I just want to share pretty shortly, because it happens every year a couple of times that people contact me because they really are suffering from not-working water features or water walls. I just will read this in short.
This is an email: "Dear Sir or Madam, we (my boss and I) are facing a medium to very large problem. We had a water wall installed in our supermarket. Unfortunately, the company is either unavailable or not in the country or simply no longer feels responsible for its property. By asking and begging several times nobody comes to help us. (Water leaks out, poorly laid pipes) Every external person who took a look at this has cursed that thing. We therefore need a company that can get us out of the bad, look at the existing properties, suggest an alternative and, of course, be available if there are problems. So we came across your company by chance. What would a visit and a consultation cost ? Where...

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In this video, I want to show you the overflow channel or you can also call it spillway or gutter, I use to produce water walls. Actually this system I have used probably more than 150 times, and from my opinion, it's the best one because you can make a very good water distribution so that your surface, where you run the water over, is going to be floated completely. Because this is actually the biggest challenge to get a water film which will cover the whole plate. You can use a glass plate or you can use a stone plate or a stainless steel plate but it's always the most important thing is to get the water harmonically distributed on that surface. For that reason, I'm using this so called overflow channel and I'm going to show you also a couple of videos about this overflow channel in real life. But let's start with this construction drawing so that I can explain you the main elements of it.

So first of all, it was until today,...

Markus: Hello, my name is Markus. I'm the founder of Wawazen and I'm pleased to welcome Robert Fechtmann from Florida here who is a business partner of Wawazen and who has invented and created a really unique water feature which we will take a look at in a few minutes. But maybe first Robert, would you please tell us who are you and what are you doing?

Robert: Okay. Hi everyone. My name is Robert. I'm a product designer. I went to school for product design and I just always saw water walls are really cool. So I wanted to make my own but I wanted to do it a bit differently than having just a square wall. So I kind of came up with a new way to disperse the water with a sheet. So I have this kind of uniquely shaped water wall and Markus is helping me with building a business around it.

Markus: Wow, you know what Robert, I think everybody who's just started watching this video. He just sees two guys and he sees you like a designer you know what you're talking about. The people don't...