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Aquamasters USA Makes Deck Drains

Aquamasters USA (Cockeysville, Md.) offers the Flowmaster 3-inch Commercial Drain System, a removable-top, deck drain…

Slot Drain Offers Deck-Drainage System

Slot Drain Systems (Manitoba, Canada) manufactures the 6000 Series of one-piece, built-in, sloped, open floor/surface…

Controlling Elements

‘Throughout recorded history,’ wrote David Tisherman in the July/August 2002 edition of WaterShapes, ‘people have tried to control the elements in every which way they can. We plant trees to block the wind, build levees to hold back rising river water and dikes to hold back the seas. We build skyscrapers that defy gravity, winds and earthquakes. ‘For all of this ingenuity, however, we sometimes don’t do a very good job. When our efforts to control the elements fail

It was a Mid-Century Modern home that needed the right poolscape: That task was well within Kurt Kraisinger's design sweet spot, and he responded with a dramatic, low-slung vision complete with a fire feature, broad decks and a pizza oven -- not to mention a big, blue duck.

Managed Elevations

It definitely helps to have a good reputation within the local design community. In this case, an architect I've known for years and have worked with on numerous occasions - someone with whom I've gotten so familiar with on the job site that we've become good friends - called me in to meet clients who needed help beyond the work he was doing on their house. He thought we'd be a good fit, and he was right: From our first meeting, the clients and I

Planning for a Rainy Day

In most backyard swimming pool projects, we install the drainage systems for decks after the swimming pool's plumbing, basically because the pool plumbers use big trenchers that will likely destroy the small drainage plumbing if