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Poolsafe LLC, offers its new mesh, removable safety fencing with four color options. Built to provide an extra layer of protection around swimming pools, this fencing comes with patented heat-welded borders and poles in brown, beige, gray, and black colors to match the latest in backyard décor. The fence’s patented ClearGuard Mesh comes in a black color offering superior visibility and a low-profile look. The Triton Gate is lockable and self-closing, with a curved top bar to deter climbing and a tri-pod truss system that maintains alignment under heavy daily use. Available in both 4ft and 5ft heights.
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RENOLIT offers its ‘Natural Pool’ collection of reinforced membranes specifically developed to be used on ‘natural’ or ‘bio’ swimming pools and ponds. Manufactured without biocides or fungicides, this product is completely compatible and safe to use with plants and aquatic life. The ‘Natural Pool’ product is a non-toxic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pool membrane created to help builders and landscape designers easily offer this trending ‘natural swimming pool’ to environmentally conscious consumers.
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Achieving superior water quality is a consuming professional passion for David Rockwell. While there are numerous ways to reach that goal, he has landed on an approach that uses ozone as the primary oxidizing/sanitizing agent, with dramatically reduced chlorine demand.
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Installation discipline Is redefining pool renovation, says commercial pool specialist, Zack Tanner. Here he pulls back the curtain on his approach to renovating large watershape environments using discipline, innovation and common sense.
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Watershape design should respond to the setting and the clients, rather than preconceived ideas, explains Alison Felschow. In this project, that belief system led to a design that was a far departure from the simple rectangles other builders had offered.
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California has always been on the leading edge of change and innovation. The changes made today will make a difference in how things like pool and spa heating is designed, installed and serviced tomorrow, says Huntington Beach service veteran Robert H. Foutz Jr..
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Texture is the quiet force that gives space its depth, legibility, and emotional charge, says Jason Brownlee. Describing it as the “teeth” of design, he explains why texture often does more work than color ever could in creating visual interest and a sense of design intent, especially when working with water.
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Curt Straub is passionate about aquatic safety. Having spent five decades working in the pool industry, his focus on keeping swimmers, and particularly kids, safe when they’re in and around the water is all about making swimming instruction part of their lives, first at school, then everywhere else.
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Bamboo, a member of the grass family Poaceae, is one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth. Its rapid growth, diverse varieties, remarkable carbon dioxide absorption, and oxygen release capabilities make it an environmental and landscape design champion. And it just looks cool.
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