About Atlantis 3 Urns Water Feature
You choose the three vessels yourself, from our Atlantis and high-fired earthenware ranges, and that choice decides what the finished feature sounds like. Three matched urns speak with one voice. Three different heights and textures give you a graduated composition with separate water notes. Whichever way you go, every urn passes through our Malaga workshop first, where the interior clay walls are coated with a commercial two-pack sealant. Untreated terracotta wicks moisture straight through itself, and under constant water contact that is what eventually undoes a vessel.
There are two ways to plumb the trio. As self-contained bubblers, water recirculates inside each urn and never leaves the vessel. Set over an underground basin instead, and it runs down the textured outer walls into a shared reservoir, which is the louder, wetter version and the one that reads from further off. Power comes either from a 240 V mains pump with a 10 m lead, or a 12 V low-voltage pump with waterproof adapters, which is the one to take if you want the feature sharing a circuit with garden lighting. Start with the vessels in our Outdoor Urns collection, then contact us about a product or project so we can size the pump and basin to the urns you have settled on. Each trio is assembled, tested and commissioned in the Malaga workshop before it goes out.
Does the base need concrete, or will compacted road base do?
Either works, provided it is properly prepared: a reinforced concrete slab, a compacted road-base foundation, or a rigid structural reservoir grid will all carry the combined weight of three water-filled ceramic urns. Level matters as much as strength. If one pedestal or base contact point sits low, the water finds that side and runs down it alone.
Why does the terracotta need sealing at all?
Natural earthenware and Atlantis terracotta are porous by nature, so water moves through the clay rather than sitting in it. Our commercial two-pack sealant cures to a watertight barrier across the interior walls, which stops that seepage and keeps salt efflorescence from working its way out and damaging the exterior finish.
Can the flow to each urn be adjusted separately?
Yes. We fit multi-valve manifold pipework in the Malaga workshop, so each urn has its own valve. That lets you set the tallest to a gentle bubble while the mid and lower urns hold a steady, even sheet of water across the rim, or wind the whole trio back if the sound carries too far indoors.
How often will the reservoir need topping up?
Three open rims give evaporation plenty of surface to work with, and through a Perth summer you will notice it. Check the level every two to three days and add fresh water so the pump intake stays fully submerged.
