Trust in Balance
No matter where you turn these days, you'll find watershaping experts preaching the gospel of balanced hydraulics.  In class after class, text after text, they all say that if you do exactly the same thing on one side of a tee as you do on the other, you will get the same flow on both side of that tee. If, for example, two main drains are connected to a single tee with pipes of the same length and diameter and the same fittings, those drains will both draw equal amounts of
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2015/4.1, April 8 — Cascade Mastery, Hydraulic Balance, Digital Pioneering and more
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Grand Effects Manufactures Aura Fire Tables
Grand Effects (Irvine, CA) produces Aura Fire Table, complete with matching seats. Available in ten…
Hardscape Lighting from Atlantic Water Gardens
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Zodiac Unveils Jandy Pro Series VS PlusHP Pump
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Jewels for Pools from Universal White Cement
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Hayward Offers Single-Element Cartridge Filters
Hayward Pool Products (Elizabeth, NJ) has added single-element SwimClear cartridge filters to its line of…
S.R. Smith Introduces the Rogue2 Pool Slide
S.R. Smith (Canby, OR) now offers the Rogue2, an enhanced version of the company’s classic…
A Seaside Gem
With hillside projects, it's generally true that lines of sight mean everything.  No matter whether the views are up close or in the far distance, no matter if the space looks out over water, trees, rugged terrain or other structures, a design wins huge style points (and a client's gratitude) if you are conscious of the way your watershapes fit into their environments. The project covered in this article had almost every advantage in the view department.  Set on a slope overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Dana Point, Calif., the home sits