There are a lot of different kinds of water features. They can be made out of real stone or artificial. You can have a slide, a cave and a waterfall, or just one of them, or all.
If you want a slide you probably want it to be as high as possible, most communities doesn’t allow the water feature to go above the wall and has to be built 5 feet from the wall, this can differ between cities and communities. If you have a slide the pool has to be 14 feet wide where the slide ends, for safety reason.
A cave can be wider to allow more people to sit in it or smaller for just two. The biggest caves are often shaped like a half circle, these caves are really deep and make the water feature big, make sure you have room for it and still keeping the required distance. If you are unsure if you got room for the type of water feature you want, call the water feature company you are going to use, they can send you drawing with measurement on, or you can ask them to come out and have a look on your yard before the excavation company starts digging.
Maybe you only want a waterfall. A waterfall can be small or big, wide or narrow, just remember the longer the water falls the higher is the sound the water is making. The waterfall can be built to look like rocks or the water can come out from some kind of vase.
Other things that can be built around your pool are planters and boulders. To have plants by the pool make it look really exotic but remember, even a palm tree sometimes lose leaves in the pool, and even a small plant will eventually have a lot of roots. Many companies built boulders by the pool, to sit on or maybe jump from. The boulders are usually artificial but can be real stone.
To hide your pool equipment you can built a wall. It can look like your wall around the yard or it can be an extension to the grotto water feature. Decide which way you are going to get to the equipment and what angle the wall should have so it hides the equipment for you, but still make it easy to get behind it.
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