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A Jewel in the Woods

Working with a property owner who insists on an unconventional approach to a project can be a challenge. But it definitely helps, reports William Drakeley, when that client is also open-minded, imagi...

#10: Acrylic Pool Wall

Those clear acrylic panels that are being included in more and more pool projects these day are great, says Mike Farley -- but there's lots to consider in putting them to use.

A Pond in Distress

When it comes to preparing his staff for real-world pondcraft, Eric Triplett believes in sharing cautionary tales -- including the one found in this video series about a beloved pond that went disastr...

From Tank to Pond

Pitching in to move four large turtles out of a plain concrete tank and into a beautiful pond was soul satisfying, notes Ed Beaulieu. But making the project a gift to a pioneering turtle researcher? ...

Community in Action

The hope-challenged hamlet of Wyandanch, N.Y., needed something special to set it on a new path, writes Joseph Serpe, and that's what he and his working partners offered in the form of a wilderness-th...

Steely Resolution

This downtown Indianapolis apartment complex wanted a rooftop pool to help build a sense of community. Stainless steel was the answer here, writes Gary Novitski -- a shell that allowed for a stylish,...

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Seeking Wellness

Riding the waves of fitness and wellness. Book Notes includes reviews of a wide variety of publications hand-selected by a professional watershaper/landscape designer who sees their relevance in his ...

LED Tape for Damp Locations from Lightcraft

Product information from Lightcraft Outdoor Environments on its LED tape lights for damp locations

A Sinking Feeling

He generally sees travel as an exciting experience, writes Jim McCloskey. But in this case, it was also a sobering reminder of the extent to which our beloved coastlines are at risk -- a reality easi...

A Walk in the Park

I first visited Balboa Park when I was eight or nine years old, writes Jim McCloskey. It was part of a family outing to see the famous San Diego Zoo. After a long, hot day among the animals, we unwo...

FAFCO Offers Solar Power/Pool Heating System

Product information from FAFCO on CoolPV, a combined solar-power-generating/water-heating system powers a home and heats a pool simultaneously

Straight Talk

In working on projects across a range of sizes, styles and price tags as his career developed, wrote Bruce Zaretsky back in 2007, he came to recognize key truths about the nature of the business.

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Graceful Cascades

Taking great pride in crafting watershapes that are as natural in appearance as possible, pond/stream specialist Steve Sandalis has developed a systematic approach that always guides him in the right directions. A case in point is the project discussed here, in which a thousand tons of stone, hundreds of feet of liner and countless plants came together to create a setting so amazingly romantic that its owner changed his mind about how to put it to use.

Bad Benchmarks

For years, says structural engineer Ron Lacher, pool builders have experienced failures of steps and benches in their concrete watershapes much too frequently. What’s been puzzling is that the majority of these failures have occurred in spa steps and benches – a mystery to which he has responded with a detailed investigation of the problem’s possible causes – and a simple, workmanship-based solution he offers here.

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