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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.
Learn more here.
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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The Wolfpack is proud to announce that Eric Knight, vice president of education and training at HASA, Inc. and Orenda Technologies, has accepted a new role as executive director of Watershape University (WU).
Knight has been with Orenda for the past nine years (including two years since the HASA acquisition of Orenda in March 2023). Since joining Orenda in 2016, the company has grown from a small specialty chemical manufacturer into one of the world’s leading brands for both water chemistry and swimming pool education. Eric was instrumental in the creation of the Orenda Calculator, blog, videos, Orenda Academy, and the Rule Your Pool Podcast. He has traveled extensively, teaching pool professionals new and innovative ways to think about pool chemistry.
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Chuck Baumann believes that the process of designing and installing custom swimming pools and their surroundings is best served with a personal touch, not unlike the experience of enjoying a great meal in the comforting warmth of his favorite Italian restaurant.
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The water gardens at Giverny have inspired visitors since the turn of the 20th Century. Home to Impressionist master, Claude Monet, the legendary landscape has been the subject of countless paintings and photographs, not only by Monet, but numerous artists famous and obscure—and it features what is arguably the world’s most famous pond.
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The Rhythm of Design