If you’re here watching this video today, I’d instead recommend you check out a new video I did on a fountain install that better demonstrates this process with video here: Installing a Henri Classic Finial Fountain (With Auto Refill) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SyRqz1lv10U.html
I know this video is a couple of years old, but i can't find a threaded to barb elbow fitting for the hudson valve like the one that you have on yours. Would you be willing to share where you got yours?
I have a small 3 tier ceramic fountain. I ran a quarter inch drip line with an emitter up through the base and into the lowest basin. Water is added to the fountain every time I run the drip to that zone so I don't have to manually top up the fountain.
I initially did this to my front fountain, but the amount can't be controlled because of the changes in weather for me. I don't water by drip everyday. It may work better with some fountain designs than others. Mine loses a lot of water everyday during the hottest part of the year. The drip method wasn't consistent enough for me.
I will soon be buying a large concrete fountain for a new house I'm buying and I too want an easy fill method. I will probably go with one that has a water level gauge like the last option so I don't manually have to remember to fill it but I am just trying to understand. In the second example you are saying the PVC has to go in horizontally so there was no way to keep it above the water line, is that correct? Is that why you had to create a "cap"/plug to the PVC using a coupler so it could be sealed around the coupler (and the power cable hole and drip hole also sealed) and remain underwater yet no water would escape back thru the PVC pipe? If so, and since you had to use plumbers putty anyway, couldn't you have just attached a 90º elbow to make the horizontal PVC turn upward vertically so it still sticks out above the water line in the basin, and then use the same method you used in the first example, or am I missing something as to why you didn't?
I found the location of the water and electrical lines a tad confusing with the first case. Did you remove still use the plug that came with the fountain but somehow being the water line in through it? Because you said “mallet it in” and I was like, in where into what? Other comments say it was all so clear so I must be a little dense.
No. The PVC is inserted into the same hole the plug would normally be. Just like in the 2nd method, in the first method the water and power lines run through the open PVC pipe, but because the water level sits lower than the pipe in the fountain it can remain open. Like in the following photo: share.icloud.com/photos/036SEVQuc6h4hPATU34cSJu4A
It's called the Henri Studio Large Regal Tier Outdoor Fountain. Your local garden center that carries Henri Fountains or containers can likely order it for you. I got mine from a local store that sells only fountains and containers.
