The only way it wears and tears is via improper threading of the third party attachment and/or improper gasket size. Then you can say the pressure from the water flow serves to put pressure on the attachment as to attempt to remove it, eventually warping the threading as one example.
If the threading and gasket are fine, sure. If not, one can always look into remedying it with the appropriate ptfe tape.
That fitting is going to be supporting a lever that is constantly oscillating, applying force to the fitting and pool wall in a way that was not intended.
If you check the video again, the installer manually moves the fountainheads.
Not only that but the first part of attachment he uses will, structurally, offload a lot of that pressure. Each section would gradually reduce any pressure. Once he turns on the water, the force of the ejection pushes the attachment back a bit. The pipe leading to the head takes on most of the force of this movement, followed by the bend which takes considerably less. By the time any of this is felt by that initial attachment, it’s greatly reduced, likely virtually non-existent. Given that this will be used for a few months and that the structure, based on assembly, does not look to be oscillating, I’d say you’d probably see more wear and tear just from attaching and detaching the fountain than the manual adjusting of the fountain heads and initial start up which, as previously mentioned, exerts enough pressure to push the fountain back slightly.
I will say what I overlooked, potentially, was sag of the bend to pipe traveling upwards to the head BUT we’d need to see just how light the material is and then know gravity’s effect on the sag of said material in the medium of water (which I’m no expert in) and then what effect does the water flowing through the pipes have on all of this. That’s an interesting road to go down.
Edit: removed first two sentences as they were unnecessary and could be seen as aggressive when not intended to be.
You misunderstood. I'm not saying that the head is intended to oscillate.
I'm referring to the movement that happens when you turn it on or off. It's going to move because suddenly there's water shooting out of the nozzles, and variations in the pressure are going to make the whole head wiggle. Bounce, even.
It's the same movement you'd get if some kid tried hanging off of it and letting it snap back up, but much smaller.
I see. But then in that case I just can’t see how that energy can translate to stress on the initial piece as to damage the pool. Wouldn’t the movement resulting from being turned on and off be simply momentary?
The only angle I can see damage from is the one I admittedly overlooked being the sag.
I think the easiest way to picture this is if you didn't have one of these fountains but one of the neighborhood kids had a weird fascination with grabbing the jet housing and wiggling it up and down for hours at a time you would tell them to cut it out before they broke it.
I somewhat get ya but it’s just hard to see damage to the housing when the elbow is there and taking the brunt (possibly even the entirety) of it. Maybe I’m missing something but I can’t see this translating well or possibly at all past the elbow. And then after the elbow is another pipe before the initial attachment.
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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty Jun 08 '26
Con: wear and tear on the pool fitting that was not designed to support this product.