The Benefits of Solar Powered Garden Fountains

In addition to its visible charm, interior wall fountains can also serve to keep your house at a cool temperature. An alternative to air conditioners and swamp coolers, they cool down your home by employing the same principles. You can lower your power bill since they use less electricity.

One way to produce a cooling effect is to fan clean, dry air across them. To improve air flow, turn on your ceiling fan or use the air from some corner of the area. It is essential that the top of the water have air continually blowing across it. It is normal for fountains and waterfalls to produce cool, crisp air. A big public fountain or a water fall will generate a sudden chilliness in the air. Be sure to position your fountain cooling system where it will not be exposed to extra heat. Direct sunlight, for example, diminishes the ability of your fountain to produce cool air.

The Origins Of Outdoor Fountains

The primary purpose of a fountain was originally strictly functional. Water fountains were linked to a spring or aqueduct to provide potable water as well as bathing water for cities, townships and villages. Up until the nineteenth, fountains had to be higher and closer to a water source, such as aqueducts and reservoirs, in order to benefit from gravity which fed the fountains. Fountains were not only utilized as a water source for drinking water, but also to adorn homes and celebrate the designer who created it. Animals or heroes made of bronze or stone masks were often utilized by Romans to decorate their fountains. Muslims and Moorish garden designers of the Middle Ages included fountains to re-create smaller models of the gardens of paradise. To demonstrate his dominance over nature, French King Louis XIV included fountains in the Garden of Versailles. Seventeen and 18 century Popes sought to laud their positions by including beautiful baroque-style fountains at the point where restored Roman aqueducts arrived into the city.

Indoor plumbing became the key source of water by the end of the 19th century thereby restricting urban fountains to mere decorative elements. The creation of special water effects and the recycling of water were two things made possible by replacing gravity with mechanical pumps.

These days, fountains adorn public spaces and are used to recognize individuals or events and fill recreational and entertainment needs.

The Many Types of Wall Fountains

Also knownas a floor fountain, a stand-alone wall fountain is normally rather big, and its basin is located on the ground.

It is possible to integrate a wall-mounted fountain onto an already existent wall or built into a new wall. Integrating this kind of water feature into your landscape adds a cohesiveness to the look you want to attain rather than making it seem as if the fountain was merely added later.

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