Okay, I posted not so long ago for ideas for my pond. I was looking mostly for waterfall ideas. Then I thought maybe stacking cinder block 3-4 feet high, like a wall would give the best noise, splash and aeration. Hubby sprung a thought on me and I am really thinking about it!
He thought it would be neat to do the wall as I said, cover the front with cement board then tile the name of my plant business on the front with green and white tile. We've not yet decided if the water would run right down the tile or spill over in front of it and look like it was running down it. I would also add some type of lighting so it showed up at night.
I'm wondering about things like the tile coming off, algae growing on the tiles, best tile and grout for outdoors, etc. Have any of you done anything like this?
Tiling an outdoor wall of water?
Yep. Use good thinset tile mortar for outdoor and aquatic use - ask the people at your local store, Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, etc. Or use a swimming pool adhesive for tile. The grout ditto. Ardex makes one, google for Ardex swimming pool adhesive and grout. Regardless of what you use, there will be algae - probably not on the tiles, but in the grout - unless you use an algicide in the water, or turn the pump off and spray the grout down with bleach every so often. If you have plants and fish involved, don't use bleach - use hydrogen peroxide (food grade if you can get it, standard wound care otherwise) and try very hard not to get too much in the water with fish. Plants can take more.
Thank you very much for your answer. Hubby will be happy to hear that he had a good idea. :)