California Gardening: Suggestions for a slope ?, 1 by imapigeon

imapigeon wrote:
rob, my birthday's on Monday---we virgo/libra cusp children have to stick together!
Here's a photo of the way we used the copper flashing in the lips of this commercial concrete fountain, which was manufactured by these folks:
http://www.alsgardenart.com/Support.aspx
and bought at SummerWinds for less than I could get it anywhere else.
It's a 3-part unit with the basin (I tiled the inside bottom) and a middle, and a top unit. Believe me, it's not manufactured completely straight or level, but it's workable.
This photo shows the copper lips we added to the top layer. This was one of those things DH didn't think would work (HAHAHAHA) but it worked perfectly to keep the fountain from dribbling all down the side (much more noisy without it, and also messier because it forms algae down the sides, etc.). We added these little copper insets to the lips on both of the layers where the water falls, and now it plunges very neatly into its basins.