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Most pool heaters don't fail because they're old. They fail because small problems are ignored until they become expensive ones. Here, Rocco Russo, senior trainer for Fluidra Pro Academy, takes a deep dive into how heater care saves money, protects homeowner investments and builds trust. Keeping a few technical detail and procedures in mind can offer a range of benefits.
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as California reinvented itself as a land of health, leisure, and spectacle, a new aquatic building type emerged along its coastlines and growing inland cities: the plunge. In a time before the emergence of the backyard pool industry, the plunges were grand civic destinations, often enclosed, frequently ornate, and almost always tied to broader visions of social life and economic development.
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Automatic Pool Covers, Inc. has introduced Invis-A-Rope, designed to blend seamlessly into the pool track for a nearly invisible finish. Its dark gray color is intentionally engineered to match the pool coping and be virtually invisible within the track, unlike more visible alternatives. As a key component of the THREE·SIXTY·FIVE automatic pool cover system, Invis-A-Rope enhances overall pool aesthetics while maintaining functionality, delivering a discreet design that remains virtually unseen by swimmers and end users.
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As both a medical professional dedicated to helping patients find a path to healing, and a member of the watershaping industry focused on providing systems that generate current in pools and lazy rivers, Denise Canchola de Tournillon has built a unique career, over the past 25 years, in which water is a unifying element.
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The northern-California pool and surrounding landscape designed by legendary landscape architect Thomas Church on a property known as Donnell Ranch stands as one the most influential pools of the 20th Century. For builder Chuck Baumann, an unlikely set of circumstances led him to the property and the inspiration that can come from studying a masterpiece.
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Far below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the reach of wind and waves, a vast and patient machinery is at work. It does not roar or churn in ways we can easily see, yet it moves heat, salt, carbon, and life itself across the southern and northern hemispheres. Known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, it is one of Earth’s most consequential natural systems. It is also one of its most vulnerable.
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Control technology for swimming pools has come a long way since the days of the mechanical timeclock. From the simple on/off function of yesteryear, to the sophisticated multi-faceted automated control of today, manufacturers continue to push the envelope of functionality and integration.
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Although they’ve been around for decades, waterparks remain a dynamic and innovative industry focused on delivering a spectrum of aquatic experiences to consumers of all ages. After more than 25 years in the business, Craig Nielsen has had a front-row seat to the evolution, and he’s says with confidence, waterparks are only at the beginning.
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There is no place quite the like the sewers of Paris. Beginning with the very notion that a sewer could be the subject of wonder and fascination is counterintuitive, but when you take the trip below the streets, what watershaping mastery is both surprising and inspiring.
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The Expanding World of Pool Inspections