How to Install a Pump in a Tiered Fountain: Order of Operations August 24, 2026JamesTheodore Most fountain pumps are not hard to install. They are easy to install in an order that makes the first start fail, and the usual response is to conclude the...
How to Size a Fountain Pump: GPH, Head Height and the Number That Misleads August 23, 2026JamesTheodore The number printed on a fountain pump box is measured with the outlet at the same height as the water. Your fountain is not built that way, and every inch...
Cats and Bird Baths: What the Numbers Say and What You Can Do August 23, 2026JamesTheodore A bird bath works by concentrating birds in one predictable spot, which from a cat point of view is a schedule. The national number, the two published placement distances and...
Tap, Softened, Rain or Well: Which Water Belongs in a Bird Bath August 22, 2026JamesTheodore Every guide says change the water. None of them say what to change it to. Softened water clears the only published avian sodium guideline in most homes that own a...
How to Keep Outdoor Fountain Water Clean When Birds Drink From It August 22, 2026JamesTheodore A fountain outdoors is a bird bath whether you meant it to be one or not. We checked what the bird safety claim on fountain algaecide actually rests on, what...
Why Your Outdoor Fountain Keeps Losing Water August 21, 2026JamesTheodore Water leaves a fountain by four routes and only one of them is a leak. Running the pump can nearly double how fast it goes, a bucket settles whether anything...