We began by excavating the hole to size and depth and completing the cinderblock wall they started. We added a versa-lock wall…
Contractor's Corner
Utilizing Your Experience and Confidence for Resolving Water Feature Problems
Our confidence, ability, and experience provided us the tools and capabilities to go in and tackle this project knowing that we may have run…
Contractor’s Corner | It’s Fun to Build at the YMCA
Giving it Away: Marketing & Advertising Strategies
I learned a long time ago that sometimes in life, the best way to grow something is to give part of it away.
Contractor’s Corner | Mask the Mechanics to Create a Seamless View of Your Waterscape
The Art of Hide and Chic with Waterscapes
For this project, I was able to hide the pump vault by arranging the layout so that the vault itself was placed off to the side and using additional Aqua Blocks to extend…
Contractor’s Corner | Three-Urn Set Completes Hardscape Install
Smaller features offer customers no-brainer, budget-friendly choices
Three days into the hardscape install, the clients, after spending a few hours thumbing through a catalog, spotted a similar three-urn set and fell in love with it.
Contractor’s Corner | Such Great Heights
Crafting a larger-than-life feature with multiple waterfalls, ponds and streams
The process of constructing the water features was a little backward to start. Due to the waterfalls being built up against the spruce and pine forest…
Big Pond Transformation for a Small Space
Sometimes a total replacement is in order
After listening to more of her concerns, I began offering some potential solutions and their respective costs. “We’d need to clean it at…
Contractor’s Corner Exclusive | Channeling Co-opetition
Do’s and don’ts in dealing with your competition
Before I get started, I want to congratulate the folks at Pondliner for hosting such an amazing event this year at the Water Garden Expo. Although I was unable to attend the WGE this year, I looked at pictures sharedMore…
Waterfall Design | Cascading Thunder Down Under
A Wedding Retreat Waterfall in the Australian Bush
We were approached by the Mistere Spa and Retreat to transform a dry, seasonal gully into a lush, continuously flowing water course. With an emphasis on creating a grand backdrop for the perfect wedding photo, this had to be somethingMore…
Winter Pond Construction Creates Something from Nothing
Small contractor delivers large surface pond for Christmas
Nine days and frigid conditions made for lots of hard work by our relentless team. But in the end, with some very hard work and a little luck from the pond gods, our finished product was rather…