The water fountain arrived, all eight hundred pounds of it. All cement, every piece the size of a pyramid cube. The directions say it takes two men to put together. Really? I would like to meet these two brawny dudes required to put this behemoth together. We huffed and puffed with a wheelbarrow, got each part close to where we will set it up and called friends to come over this weekend to help put this steeple of spouting water together.
Get this.
The pump they sent, if it was dick, would be pitied. We tried to figure out how it was to fit on the hose that came with fountain and there is no way it is going to work. We got some heavy pumping to do with a big daddy hose that runs up the inside of the fountain. To do this with the tiny squirt gun that it came with, ain't goin' to satisfy a massive structure of solid cement bowls, one inside the other. I called and of course whoever is in charge of putting the right pump in the right box wasn't there, but they will call tomorrow. Yeah, right.
In the meantime, I've got people wanting to get into water sports, booze and grilled burgers scheduled this weekend. I gotta get a manly man pump by Saturday or my Water Sports party will be a drip.
Hopefully the fountain people will be open early in the morning! If not, does Home Depot have pumps like that for ponds and such?
ReplyDeleteIt turns out that the extra pieces that came with the pump, and no instruction in what they were for, were pieces to use to fit what ever size you needed. I found out when I called back the next day and Becky explained it to me after she found out. The fountain is gurgling and with the help of several pieces of odd bits here and there is equal around the sides so that the water spills like it is suppose to. As it turned out, leveling the area before was a precursor. Each bowl needed to be leveled as well. We now have bliss.
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