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 …
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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 …
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Origins of “The Water Geek”
When you love what you do, there’s nothing wrong with being known as a geek for it – to fully “geek-out” as the saying goes. In my case, I am the ultimate geek for water quality. It’s my passion, my guiding light, the reason I get up in the morning and a constant source of …
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 …
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Hybrid and Custom – The Journey to a Perfect Pool
The great philosopher and author, Joseph Campbell, defined what he called the “hero’s journey” as the road taken by those who devote their lives to something greater than themselves. I’ve always been inspired by that idea and believe that having a sense of abiding purpose gives our efforts meaning. We all find our own journeys …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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