How to Build a Creek Water Feature
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Tearing out the old Creek
0:40 - Digging
1:32 - The Layout
1:45 - More Digging and Prep
2:05 - Liner Layout and Overlaps
3:42 - Setting Rock
4:00 - Foam
5:15 - Pipe and more foam
6:00 - Test Run
6:40 - Setting more Rock
6:58 - Plants, Weed Cloth, Mulch
7:40 - Fine Tuning, Pathways
7:52 - Bridge
8:30 - Finished Product
9:52 - Outro
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So happy with how this turned out🤩💕
That ''I like that'' when you crossed the bridge... priceless!
Rather than letting your foam harden then cutting the excess, throw smaller gravel on it while the foam is half set. This allows you to flatten out the bulges of foam (eliminating the hassle and risk of cutting) and the pebbles/gravel stick and won't wash away with the water flow. That is what I did on my creek water feature anyway.
I did the same...perfect concealed seal!
Ooh good tip as I'm just attempting 🤞🏼same but smaller scale .
The fact that you are doing this with your family speaks volumes. Love this.
Hehehe! I love how your little princess is helping dig! So cute how she loves to help out!
A labor of love. I had to rewind and start because I was enchanted watching your daughter putting stones in the plastic bin and digging. Love seeing it from above. Kudos and wishing you all the best
I use expanding can spray foam for all my outdoor projects. Works great to fill gaps and holds things in place very well. Your able to sculpt/mold it and I’ve used it to (make rocks or imposters) when I can’t find one I need. Bonus, it holds paint/stains very well so if it’s the wrong color and visible you can paint/stain it. I do use a clear waterproof deck sealer of flex seal clear spray to prolong the life.
OMG that is awesome 👏 !!!!I absolutely love it love!! It took my breath away! Very talented man.God bless you for sharing this !! I love it!!!! I’m going to do this in my house I exactly what I want. I can’t thank you enough. Bravo 🙌👏👍
Beautiful. Water features turn a yard into beauty.
I enjoy watching you work and figuring things out and engineering it for your family and the common guy . You remind me a lot of myself when i was a young man. Keep up the good work and take care of your family
I will for sure, thanks. I’m glad you’re here.
I give you credit for going all in on this.....please keep us updated on the maintenance and maybe do a quarterly or monthly update on the pros and cons......such as the different algaes that are showing up, pump problems, fish problem, bugs/mosquitoes, etc. I wish I could do this in my yard, best of luck!
If you just put some pond plants in the water to use up the nutrients in the water it should be fine even without a filter. Raccoons could be problem though. They've come and knocked a bunch of the surrounding plants into my water feature at night lately, and all the soil getting in the water has caused a lot of algae. But that's on me for having all that soil right near the water.
I'll keep this in mind! I'm seeing a lot of algae by all my plants are looking Really healthy. I'll get back to you.
@@travisjantzer I've heard that if your water is clear and you're getting just hair algae that's a sign of a healthy water feature, and everything is in balance !
@@travisjantzer you could always run your water through a bog filter and that would really keep your water nice and clear!
Beautiful! Now all you need is beautiful flowers and garden( if you are into it) and some trees will look like a PARADISE!
Beautiful job, even the birds in the background were singing and gossiping about it. They love water features like this.
I'm so glad I found this video! It gave me so many simplified ideas, I was way overthinking my project!
Very awesome that you just overlap multiple narrow liners over each other and it works out just fine as long as it is on a slope. Very cost effective, because if you buy one large liner it's going to be really expensive and have a ton of excess liner on the sides that you don't need. You don't need a big, splashing, multi-level waterfall to have a good water feature, the creek looks great. I love watching the aquascape videos, but like watching do it yourself water features on a budget because it's far more interesting and relatable, because that's what I did myself, and this is probably the best one I've seen.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
I love making these, and I try to make my video a good balance of both Helpful and Entertaining. I keep my builds simple to show how attainable they are for the average person.
Love love love it. Man your ideas are soo much more cooler than all the other expensive make overs from the more popular and big named pond people. Like most people with very little money to spare and small gardens or yard space who are sick of watching something that's way more than under £100 to start with . You can add more little by little as you can afford it. Realistically is the beauty of your show mate. Well done.
He spent way more than 100...
Great ideas! I'm going to incorporate this into a acquaponics system! Pumps up from the pond into a multi tear 2 row split tube system . Might even put crawdads in the river area.
I love it. How do u get the water pumping back to the top if u have another video that shows me how to do it I would appreciate it so much. My son passed away 2 yrs ago at 38 from a massive heart attack. I am making a memory garden. I want to add a small water creek to sit out and hear the water and think of him and hopefully it will help me to heal a little even thought a piece of my heart has died with him. Thank you. U and ur wife are hard workers and I commend u both on a job well done.
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. You're so strong to live through that. Good luck on your memory garden.
I'm planning a video about hooking up pumps that should be fairly comprehensive.
Rest In Peace to your son sorry for your loss 🥺❤️
the pump hook up video is online if that is still something you need info about.
@@travisjantzer I was hoping you followed through with her request. I'm subscribing now brother. Thanks for being a good human.
@@travisjantzer which video is that?
Projects like this are always a lot easier when you have a good little helper.
Its true.
This is incredible stuff man, I’m thankful that you’re sharing what you know on RUclips and I’d definitely try this out if I didn’t live in such a snowy area. Keep up the great work
Thanks! glad you like my content :)
Get a water heater. A creek would look sick in the winter
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Steam coming up. :-)
Beautiful!!
AMAZING work! I love watching your videos and dreaming about what we might do in our yard. Thank you for the great videos!
Sure thing!
Depending on the type of liner you use, you can heat seal them to prevent the water from backing up. We build waterfeatures in Texas. :D
I like that idea I’ll have to look into it!
Can't you also just use silicone to seal the overlap?
@@accessiblecruisetravel-dre3383 I came here to ask this as well.
What type of liner do you use because I just built one and I have a leak and it’s a bona fide bitch
What kind do you use and how do you seal it? It does it self seal in 107° Temp? Texas wants to know.
Great to see you back. You should definitely post to r/diy.
One thing that worries me about this is the top pond being close to the cement, thinking about the little one's you have. And how wobbly they are ...
Maybe next project a planter box with some tall grass.
And maybe a comfy bench/ sofa out of wood (recycled?) to match better with the landscape .
Yea my toddler isn’t allowed out front without supervision. She’s got the back yard full of stuff to do. And yea I definitely plan on building a bench out front and my wife wants to plant vegetables in those grassy areas. So we’re gonna till and plant there :)
I’m glad I found this video. That’s what I had in mind. Two ponds separated by a creek as you call it. But my creek won’t be as long as yours. It will as well have a small bridge
Nice job and a good video 👍👍
Simple and beautiful.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video thank you for sharing you provided a lot of great ideas for my own projects
What a awesome water feature brother. Blessings to you and your family.
Oh my goodness 😳 I just realized I have been obsessing over and way over thinking my current pond set up!!!
You guys did a beautiful job and like someone else said, you made it look easy enough to do that I think I'll go outside and work on mine!!!!
Thank you both for sharing this. 👍🏻
Thank you! I'm sure yours will look amazing :)
Good job Travis! Looks amazing
That is SUPER COOL!!! I think I'm going to give it a try! Thanks for this AWESOME idea!
Go for it! good luck!
Great family activity, so many positive things learned from that, also inspired me
I like the way it turned out!
Bravo! 👏
I just came across your channel and your water features are awesome!
You just inspired me to redo my 🐢 pond.
Hey Travis, greetings from down under. Great stuff mate, I've been wanting to create something similar in our backyard and I'm really glad I came across your video, appreciate the tips and useful info. Enjoy your beautiful garden, cheers :-)
Thanks! Greetings from Oregon! Good luck on yours :)
This turned out amazingly!!!!!!
Love it. Definitely steeling some ideas for ours!!! Well done Travis!
Absolutely beautiful
I love these videos, and you have a real talent for it... The only issues are that liner will cause you problems later... it will not last long and is easy to tear... your best bet is an EPDM liner with a 25+ year warrantee and will last forever when covered from the sun... You should also look into creating filters so your pond stays clean... the top part of the waterfall could be turned into a bog filter pretty easily and getting or building a skimmer at the bottom will help catch debris and keep the pond cleaner... Keep up the awesome videos!!!
Yea I need to look into filters and such. I'm still learning. Glad you like my videos!
Love it!!!
You got quite a little helper there.Someday she'll be putting in a water feature while her kid/s help, all because of your efforts. Enjoy life,stay save, and God bless.
Yea my little family is incredible, I love them. God bless you too!
Nice job! Beautiful family ❤
You did a great job my friend! My dad and his friend built one at my dads new house and it’s very nice! I love how you made yours a family DIY project though. The little bridges are definitely the best touch on yours! My dads friend builds them for a living and you make it so that almost anyone can do it by following your tutorial! That’s so cool and again well done!
Thanks! I'm glad you like my project and video :) I try to be both helpful and entertaining.
Very beautiful despite its simplicity, but very close to nature. Thank you for this wonderful video and I have learned to do likewise for a larger space.
I recently made a bigger one too! Let me know how it goes.
Omg!!! You did an awesome job!!! The reason I even looked this up is because I live in apartments that have a beautiful water brook in it. I want one now!!! I decided to research so that when I get my home I can see how it's done. Even tho tour getting positive critiques on here you still did an amazing job. God bless!!!
Awesome!
Beautiful!
Thank you.
I have made small stream at my garden last month.
Your process of making a stream give me a big idea and It's been a lot of help.
Here is Seoul Korea.
That’s awesome! Are you non Instagram? I’d like to see photos of your stream. @travis.jantzer
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I have got a idea from Travis Jantzer,, thanks a lot.
(From Seoul Korea)
Great video. Thanks for sharing your ideas. What would send this over the top is ASMR
you are the best my friend . we love to see yours videos :)
you and your wife have made a awesome creek with waterfall, well done it lools amazing,
wow thanks!
There are alot of videos online that show making stuff but whenever I watch one of yours, you seem to be on the same level as the average person that doesn't really know how to do everything but you explain it so everyone could think they could do it......whether they ever do make one of your projects is something else, but I bet they feel like they could as you try to simplify it, thanks!
Thanks! I try to keep my projects relatable, and attainable. My biggest pet peeve with DIY videos is when someone claims the viewer can do it too.. right before they enter their $100k shop with a machine that 99.99% of us don't have. Thats why I do all my digging with a shovel. Excavators are handy, but who has one of those?!
Looking great guys!
Thanks so much. You make it look easy and I know it wont be but I am going for it.
Thank you for making such a straightforward and easy-to-follow video! I've been researching natural stream building for a few years and yours is one of the best I've seen!
Great to hear!
Hi Travis, Its nice to see the update you made on your stream. I remember watching your first video of the stream with the wheel barrel and saving it so we could make this in our future house one day. Well, im happy to say we finally bought the house and im going to finally get to build our stream !! Thanks for the cool videos. One quick question, how does the water get back to the top of the water fall? not sure how the pump works. Thanks in advance.
Very cool water feature, thanks.
I really enjoy your videos. You inspire me to try this. Thank you.
Excellent creek
That looks great. Good job, Sir.
Thanks for the info!!! I am not a big of the pre-made hard plastic liners, plus they are super expensive. This video gave me enough confidence to go for my own thing:-))
Ps- the best part was seeing the little one out there exploring.
You and your wife could do wonders with a bit more land 🌱
AMAZING!!
thank you and much love and peace from New Hampshire 🌸
My wife is a great gardener too. We would love to own land. some day.
:) I'm from Oregon.
So soothing
Damn, it looks amazing.
The sound must be great too.
If I were to do this in my front yard where I live, I'd have the plastic sheets, the rocks, and maybe even the water stolen xD, not to mention if I had the wheelbarrow there like in the previous version of the creek, lol.
Cheers for that great work!
thats unfortunate! Glad you like my project :)
this is soo sick, I'm hyped to see what you do with the rest of the yard/house upgrades
Thanks! I've done all kinds of upgrades already and filmed them for my channel, and I have many more to come :)
@@travisjantzer Honestly I love these videos, keep making them dude you got my subscription
Man you outdid yourself again! That is a work of art.
thanks! pretty sure its 5300 gph capacity.
That is way too much relaxing. Good work :D!
Wow man that's awesome. I've been thinking about doing a small pond in my back yard...you gave me some good ideas. thank you!
Do it and let me know how it goes!
Amazing stuff mate, keep it up
Beautiful 👏🏻 I will copy it 🥰
Beautiful
thanks
Man you make it look to easy I’m way to lazy to do all this work lol
i try XD
Hi , i think this is great , it looks amazing , i have just started to build one in my garden (early stages yet) but i wondered what pump you have for yours , im in the U.K so will try and find similar one , thanks 😎
Looks AMAZING.. I'm about to do a dry creek bed in our front yard and was looking for ideas on RUclips;. Thank you.
let me know how it goes!
looks great
thanks!
Outstanding!
Glad you like it!
Looks great!!
after these are up and running. what kind of work do you have to do to keep them running?
That’s a really innovative setup and design, looks awesome and great job!
thanks!
Thanks Travis... You're awesome with your work.
I appreciate that!
Blessings!
Thanks
Thanks you too!
Its really awesome work , your little angel daughter gave her big helping hand💪 so it became more magnificent😇.
Just found this in my list, awesome job, looks great!!
thanks!
How do you circulate the water from the bottom pond back up to the top ?
This is amazing I am intrested in how you would winterize this sort of river pond for the winter? I live in the north east and would love to try this in my back yard
Nicely done!
Thanks!
This was absolutely a brilliant job done....it looked real...
That was the plan! glad I could make it happen
Wow!!! That is really nice. Love it!
Glad you like it!
This just reminded me of the time I was like 7 or so and would dig around our tree to make a waterway for my little toy boats (:
Thank you it is so nice …,enjoy every day🛎❣️🌺🇨🇦
Awesome and easy to do love it
Subscribed man, nice work. /Watched the last one and this one comes up a week later, nice
Awesome, thank you!
Wonderful endeavor!
thats amazing. i am going to try to recreate something similar to this in my front yard
let me know how it goes :)
Wow! Beutiful👍🏼
Well done !!!!!
thanks!!!!!
Great build & video 💪🏽very inspiring
Looks beautiful
thanks!
Hello you guys i from Thailand great your garden wish you family happiness.
Thank you! You too!
Looks like the edges are already leaking and I would not use regular home insulation foam- the color is not the only difference. Otherwise, a very cool project!
How did you connect the water pump and get it to pump the water please