First of all, the pictures in the description is not what the product actually looks like. It floats using this strange, blue, flower-looking thing (see the first attached picture). I thought it would just be a white pad, as shown in Amazon's picture. It works pretty well, although I have better luck controlling the height by partially turning down the valve for the return it's connected to rather than adjusting the hose position as the directions say. Once you get it together, it makes sense, but if you've never used one of these before, the instructions are absolutely terrible. For me, it didn't seem to come with all the washers I needed either and had to cut down one of the bigger ones by almost half in order to fit. The thing that really annoyed me was it told you to remove and disassemble one of the eyeball inlet fittings in your pool. You remove the adjustable ball to insert the pipe that connects to the fountain's hose. First of all, I might not always want the fountain connected, so I'd like to retain the option of just having a regular inlet with an adjustable ball, and not having to take the entire fitting apart again. But, problem solved since mine wouldn't come apart anyway. So, I had to go buy an entirely new fitting just for the ring they don't include with the fountain. Not including a stupid little threaded ring with the fountain, which probably costs about 5 cents to make, increased my cost of making this fountain by about 30%. Like I said, it works fine and I'm satisfied with the way it looks. But, getting it assembled and having to modify and buy additional parts was annoying since everything about my pool should have been 100% compatible right out of the box. It's just a bad design.EDIT: I'm changing my review to one star. I've been using this fountain for about four months now. First of all, I purchased a Hayward SPX7400V diverter valve and rigged it to work with this fountain. The small output on that valve is too small to use with the hose that comes with this fountain. But, since it's a standard 1.5" threaded connection, a cheap PVC part from a home improvement store adapted the Hayward diverter to work perfectly. So, now I can turn the fountain on and off at the return with a simple turn of a lever and retain use of that return just as a return (see picture #3 below).But, then after using the fountain for a few months, the float part broke. The float that came with mine was very thin blue plastic (the flower thing in picture #1). I don't leave the fountain in the pool all the time (you shouldn't leave it in the water when you are shocking), so sometimes it just sits on the pool deck. I guess leaving it out in the sun weakened the plastic. One last time throwing it to the middle of the pool shattered the bottom of the float, sending sharp shards of blue plastic to the bottom, shortly followed by a flooded, sinking fountain head. Rather than buying an entirely new fountain, I made a new float out of PVC pipe and a 4" PVC toilet flange, using the original fountain head (see picture #2). It would have been cheaper to buy an entirely new fountain. But, I won't buy something that isn't going to last.So, after about half a season of use I've replaced parts of the inlet fitting to make it work initially (because it didn't include what I needed), eventually replacing the entire inlet fitting to adapt to a diverter valve (for my own convienience), and replaced the float. I'm left with a fountain that will probably last for years now, but I'm actually using very few parts that came with the fountain originally. Really all I've salvaged from the original package is the fountain head and the plastic line (although I foresee having to replace that next year too).I've attached pictures showing what came with my order (the blue float, not the white square one as pictured on Amazon) and my DIY modifications. Note: The last three pics show parts that do not come with the fountain.