Building the lower waterfall
The transition between the mezzanine levels 1 and 2 consists of a curved granite set wall, a waterfall built from granite kerb stones and a slate rock fall. The granite wall was a my small time attempt to emulate the magnificent granite walls seen at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo!
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This was the transition before work started!
The foundations do not need to be too deep.
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The concrete foundation to the granite sett wall
The wall nears completion and didn't take too long to build - only a couple of hours at most.
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The wall starts to take shape!
The waterfall was constructed from reclaimed granite kerbstones which were quite heavy to lift into place!
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The rough placing of the water fall stones with the wooden guide I used to build the curved wall
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Another view of the near completed wall
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The completed waterfall - boy the kerbs were heavy!
The waterfall looks a lot better when aligned and concreted in place.
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The transition was finished off with a slate rock fall
built from from various sizes of slate and scree
I really love this scree though you will see in the completed garden I have removed the stones directly underneath the waterfall as there was too much splashing.
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The completed waterfall with boulders added to the left-hand side.
The does look and sound really great if I don't say so myself!