Take Care of Your Outdoor Water Feature Before Autumn Comes

You realize that autumn has arrived the moment you see cool, crisp covering the edges of the grass at early morning. Soon your eyes will catch the glimpse of surrounding greenery that slowly changes into other colors like orange, yellow and so on. Steadily the temperature also starts to feel that let the cool breeze swiping your face the moment you step outside. While opening your windows you must have noticed that the water fountain that is installed in the backyard of your house is asking for attention. According to many experts, it is at this moment when these water features require serious attention and proper care just to retain its quality. Particularly if the temperature of your present location falls below freezing temperature, its high time you pay particular attention to this feature.  

If the water fountain has movable feature, try to place it at inside the region like garage area or in a storage shed within your house so that frosts don’t get accumulated over its surface. However, it is not always possible either because of its huge size or the absence of movable feature in it. Then what you will do to save it? Winterizing the fountain is the only best alternative you can conceive of. Though it may sound like a daunting task, but doing it can help in retaining the fountain for the next few years. 

How you are going to do it? For that, you need to drain out the entire stored water of the fountain. Once the entire water gets drained out, remove the pump as well. This is because, during winter the frost might get accumulated over it making it unsuitable to use in the next spring. After these jobs are done, cover the fountain with a ‘fountain cover’. Many e-stores selling outdoor water feature do sell such fountain covers as well. Buy one of them to cover up your garden feature. Or else you can use any old blanket or any water absorbent material to serve the purpose. Once you have wrapped the fountain with this material fully, use a tarp material to cover up the entire fountain. Make sure it is tied up properly so that it doesn’t comr off with the air that blows during winter. If possible you can lift its base and place wooden shims so that the base of the fountain doesn’t get freeze to the ground. 

Thus, your water fountain gets fully protected before the cold winter tries to cause any damage to it.