Thinking of building your own fountain ... no need to.
It is no longer a matter of how to build a fountain or how to make a garden fountains. Yard fountains, pond fountains, a patio fountain are quite simply made for you already in lightweight modern materials of construction.
Outdoor water garden fountains come in a great variety of colours shapes and sizes. The rock structure appearance of top selling outdoor garden fountains allow literally for an infinite variety of products to be made. The only limit is nature herself.
How to make a water fountain the easy way
Let the manufacturer concentrate on how build a fountain and you buy one from the very many natural looking or formal water fountains available. The trend no doubt is to the natural rock lightweight weather resistant type you can move around without fear of breaking..
How to build a fountain from rocks if you really want to
An outdoor rock-like garden fountain is first made by a manufacturer by moulding a natural rock or group of rocks. The rock is sometimes enhanced by expert sculpting to improve the appearance with respect to water flow before making the final moulds for the outdoor garden fountain. This is by far the easiest way for you to know how to build a fountain. It is highly unlikely unless you are very skilled that you could do a good job yourself and it would probably take far more effort, time and money.
I know a manufacturer who visited the UK and returned with a drilled rock which weighed 63 kg. The rock was slate grey with a white quartz "avalanche" effect down one side. It really was an impressive real rock outdoor garden fountain. It was later expertly moulded and now forms the basis of a range of outdoor garden fountains based upon this design in different sizes and colours. How to build a fountain like this would mean finding the rock, and drilling it all the way through. This is what some companies actually do for a living but of course each one is a "one-off" and the price reflects the considerable amount of labour and time involved on how to make a fountain like this. You would also need access to a drill then put a 1 inch hole through the rock itself.
The exact equivalent outdoor garden fountains now made by moulding in fibreglass looks identical to the real thing but weigh only 4 kgs (only 6% of the original's weight) and can be made in almost any natural colour. This series of outdoor garden fountains is appropriately called The Alpine outdoor garden fountains collection. Now that is how to build a fountain!
