Painting In Water

This article by Steve Kenny was just published in Watershapes Magazine! To read the full article on their website, click HERE. I’ve always been amazed and delighted by how beauty can emerge from the unexpected, or even an accident. My life experiences working with and enjoying water have revealed countless epiphanies, large and small, a …

Pool Equipment – Finding Real Estate Below Ground

Designing and building aquatic environments is a matter of balancing aesthetics and function. Part of the challenge is deciding where to place mechanical equipment. Pool equipment—with all the pipes, valves, conduits, and industrial-looking components—is not pleasing to the eye. Unless you’re fond of the appearance of machinery, equipment sets can be unsightly. It’s like the …

The Mysterious Pleasure of Bathing – It’s All in the Water

I’m one of those people who is always looking for simple and profound truths, which I think is why I’m so obsessed with water. There’s an intriguing yin and yang to it. On one hand, there’s all the technical, left-brain stuff about technology, science, design, chemistry, fluid dynamics, ergonomics and other technical characteristics of building …

A Negative Edge Pool in the Bahamas – Lessons Learned

A version of this post was just published in WaterShapes Magazine! CLICK HERE While it’s always better to prevent problems before they arise, it can be satisfying to fix things after they’ve gone wrong – to come to the rescue, so to speak.  The frustrating irony in our case at SRK Pools is that every …

Equipment Bunkers – Form Follows Function

This might sound strange, but I believe there’s something “sacred” about pool equipment. The reason I use that word is simply because these are machines that take care of our health, as well as our comfort. I feel much the same way about HVAC systems and in the broader sense public water-treatment systems. Fact is, …

The SRK Showroom Pool – Proof is in the Experience

If to see is to believe, then to experience is to understand. Only when you step into the waters of experience do you truly know what it is to be immersed in the perfect pool water experience. Only then can you fully know the complex feelings and presence of temperature, buoyancy, texture, current, clarity and …

Pool Water Design – Creating “Gourmet” Water

I’m always thrilled when one of our prospective clients decides they’d like to experience our SRK HydroZone 3® pool water for themselves. It’s happened quite a few times over the years and literally without exception, when someone takes a test dip in one of our pools, they insist on having the same water quality in …

Cartridge Filters – What People Might Not Know

Making great water, the kind you can’t wait to get into, ultimately comes down to making the best choices among the available pool water treatment options. That can be tough because the pool and spa industry is loaded with various chemical products and devices that claim to be the best thing since canned beer. The …

SRK Water Review – A Professional Swimmer’s Perspective

Lately I’ve been on a mission – a mission to listen, you might say. My belief has long been that far too many of us in the pool and spa design/water quality profession have not done a good job of listening to our customers. I believe that’s especially true when it comes to input from …

SRK Water Review – From a Collegiate Water Polo Player

Last November, I wrote a blog titled “The Unheard Voice,” in which I featured comments from Max Bass, collegiate water polo player, all-around waterman, and my nephew. My point then was that as pool design and water quality professionals, we would do well to listen to the input from people like Max, who spend a …