Inter-Fab (Tucson, AZ) makes Pool Lifestyle Tables designed for use on tanning ledges in swimming…
Aqua Sun Ozone International (Palm Springs, CA) has added the SwimKleen Pool Unit to its…
Millstones.com (Atlanta, GA) combines cast iron, stone and water to craete millstone fountains. The self-contained,…
Hearth Products Controls has introduced the Copper Cyprus Bowl, a system for fire-on-water features. The…
Bobé Water & Fire Features (Phoenix, AZ) offers Pure Flow, a scupper engineered for a…
Quikspray (Port Clinton, OH) has introduced the Model 200 Hydraulic Grout Plant. Designed for portability,…
Sometimes, things come together in just the right way. I'd been called in to a multimillion-dollar property with a large, three-year-old house on it, right next to the Chattahoochee River on the northwestern fringe of Atlanta. There was an existing pool, but the homeowners wanted something new - a composition that befitted the home's elegance and said more about
As a general contractor, I am steadily bombarded by information about new products that claim they will forever change the way I look at whatever category the novel gizmo occupies. This sort of marketing has turned me into a skeptic whenever I see something new come along, basically because experience and communication with other contractors have showed me that few of these novelties ever fully live up to the hype. Some contractors respond to this slippery situation by sticking solely with what they know, which, in my view, is
'When I teach seminars on watershape design,' wrote Brian Van Bower in opening his Aqua Culture column ten years ago, 'I always emphasize the importance of having a list of questions to ask prospective clients during initial conversations. It's a point that always seems to ignite discussion - and it usually ends up with someone in the audience asking me to provide such a document for general use. 'I always refuse to do so, not because I
