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Bad Benchmarks

August 1, 2006
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.