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Contractor's Corner
Contractor’s Corner | An Uphill Climb
A leaky water feature transforms into a pondless paradise.
I approached the homeowner and asked if fish or plants had ever been a part of the leaking pond, and they said that they did…
Contractor’s Corner | Think Outside the Pond
How an old hot tub and some extra stone transformed a client’s backyard
One of these “outside-the-pond” projects presented itself to us at Full Service Aquatics following a pond-construction and backyard-renovation…
Contractor’s Corner | Mr. Fix It Saves the Day
Pond professionals salvage an amateur ‘pond’ attempt
We began by excavating the hole to size and depth and completing the cinderblock wall they started. We added a versa-lock wall…
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…