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Poolsafe LLC, offers new mesh, removable safety fencing designed to be installed around pools of any shape or size. The system uses patented, transparent, large-hole ClearGuard Mesh for better visibility into the pool area, while also blending the fence into backyard. Lockable, self-closing Triton gate features a curved top bar to help prevent climbing. A unique Tri-Pod Truss system keeps gate aligned with daily usage. Available in 4' and 5' heights, in black, brown, beige, or gray colors.
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RENOLIT has announced it is now offering a new, more robust 15-year warranty on its TOUCH and VOGUE Collections of 80-mil reinforced PVC membranes--offering Class C slip-resistant properties, a variety of colors, designs and textures--for new pool construction and renovating leaking or deteriorated pools. The new warranty offers pool professionals and their customers long-lasting protection backed by a waterproofing guarantee.
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The need to manage and control water is one of the defining challenges of human civilization. One visionary landscape architect believes the key to sustained success is to use natural processes to create “sponge cities” that ingeniously integrate manmade infrastructure with the widespread use of wetlands, rain gardens and green belts.
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Did you know bears love hot tub covers, specifically the smell and taste of vinyl? For hot tub owners in rural settings, it’s true that bears will sometimes steal covers and take a dip in the war water while they’re at it.
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Water is so commonplace in our daily lives, it’s easy to take for granted, even for professionals whose industry depends directly upon it. As Eric Herman points out, there’s never a bad time for increasing our knowledge and appreciation of the hydrological cycle—and all that it encompasses.
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Cast-in-place coping can be used to create a wonderful, clean-looking edge treatments, but like all construction details on pools and other structures that hold water, what you don’t know can lead to problems. In this case, it might come as a surprise to some that “doing it right” means leaving out the steel.
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Automatic Pool Covers Inc., is now offering a new and improved, slip-resistant pool coping option for its automatic pool-cover systems. This innovative coping uses sand-infused paint to create a texture that makes the surface slip-resistant and safer for users walking around the pool. This sand-infused paint is used not only on the coping and lid, but also on the lead-edge bar.
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Magic Plastics is pleased to offer its patented Vibeproof Locking Union Technology created to prevent and avoid costly plumbing service calls. This technology incorporates the use of a series of strategically placed scallops on the pump union nut and tailpiece so that hand-tightening of the nut will engage the lock, preventing the union from loosening or backing out during vibration to eliminate unnecessary service calls.
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There are times that a fresh plaster job and new tile can make a worn-out pool look new again, much to the pool owner’s delight. But if the cosmetic work was done to hide more serious issues ahead of a real estate transaction, an all-too common practice, Scott Cohen warns, contractor and buyer beware.
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