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Perk Up Your Pool: Resurfacing in Fiberglass or Plaster
Ah, pools. Whether humble aboveground 15-footers or elaborately designed in-ground beauties, swimming pools are refre...
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10 "Dream-Worthy" Swimming Pools
Swimming anyone? Here are ten of our top picks for "dream-worthy" pools.
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12 Celebrity Pools to Envy
Dream a little with these 12 extraordinary celebrity pools—each one more spectacular than the next.
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Swimming Pools 101
Considering an in-ground swimming pool? Here's everything you need to know about style, type, maintenance, safety and cost.
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Water, Water Everywhere: Installing a Small Backyard Pond
Nothing quite soothes the soul like the sound of burbling water. Even though we have a long and narrow backyard, we a...
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Top Tips for Adding a Garden Fountain
I don’t meditate and I don’t go for weekly massages to unwind. Years ago, I discovered something much more cost-effec...
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Building a Concrete Pool Deck
A concrete pool deck must be safe, slip-resistant, and easy on the feet.
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Save Money with an Irrigation Well
The development where we chose to build our house is about 2 miles from the beach. We can ride our bikes to the state...
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Garden Fountains: 10 Water Features to Beautify Any Yard
Adding a water feature to your patio, garden, or yard is easy, particularly if you consider one of the ten products shown here.
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Swimming Pools: Pump Woes
Living in the northeast and being a "pool-free" homeowner, I rarely think about the luxury enjoyed by countless homeo...
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Pool Fencing for Improved Safety
Pool fencing protects children from the major dangers posed by backyard swimming pools.
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Ways to Save Water in Your Garden
Save money and the environment by lowering your water use, while still growing your dream garden.
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Building a Gunite Cement Swimming Pool
Bob joins Tom McNealy to excavate and pour a gunite cement swimming pool.
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Swimming Pool Filtration, Sanitation, and Lighting
Bob watches as a pool cage is constructed. It is rated to withstand a wind load of 130 miles per hour
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Removable Swimming Pool Safety Fencing
Bill Jasper joins Bob for the installation of a removable Baby Barrier pool fence.
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Swimming Pool Construction
Larry Long (from Anthony & Sylvan Pools) explains the excavation and preliminary work of building a new pool. Reinforcing rods are used to help the concrete hold ...
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Plastering the Swimming Pool
In the final step of the pool's contruction, the basin is washed and vacuumed before plastering begins. Bob discusses the materials and the mixing ratio used in t...
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Discussing Swimming Pool Design
Bob discusses the addition of a swimming pool with the project architect.
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Plans for the Swimming Pool
Bob and Pete, the foreman of the swimming pool construction crew, survey the property and review the installation plans.
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Gunite Cement in Swimming Pool Construction
Bob observes as gunite is poured over rebar to form the bottom and sides of the swimming pool cavity.
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Tiling the Swimming Pool
Bob discusses tile and its process of application with the foreman of the pool installation contracting crew.
 
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