Water features

Finnish slate and granite are wonderful for water features. Here are two I did for my family members. Not a lot of carpentry involved, but plenty of creativity. The whole structure is built on large blocks of carved expanded polystyrene. The stones are fixed with, well I won't tell all my secrets!

The first one was massive, several tonnes of slate and a 2m drop, so the next one was an excercise in miniature, a trickling stream rather than a mountain torrent.  I found the beautiful 'strutsin muna' (ostrich egg) on a beach. I had hunted for a nice round stone for days, and finally found a beauty. Thank you to the ice-age! I drilled it and fitted the pump underneath. The pump has two pipes, the other one to the head of the little stream.