3 Reasons Why You Should Use A Professional To Install Your Glass Pool Fence

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Glass Pool Fence

Advice out today from Complete Projects WA is that Swimming pool fences are a legal requirement under Australian law, which means that everyone with a pool that contains (or has the potential to contain) more than 30 cm of water needs one. However, pool fencing has the potential to disrupt your landscape design and the overall appeal of your yard, especially if it’s not done right.

Glass pool fencing is fast becoming one of the most popular pool fence styles in Australia. It offers a stylish, modern look which, when combined with its strength and low maintenance needs, makes it the perfect choice for many people.

DIY glass fences are becoming more and more popular, but this isn’t always the best way to go. Sure, you might save a little bit of money by installing your fence by yourself, but is it really worth it?

Below we will look at 3 compelling reasons why you should always employ a professional to install your glass pool fence:

  1. Professionals Know What They’re Doing

Building a new glass pool fence isn’t as easy as it might appear at first. Everything has to be done just right, otherwise it will look like it was built by an amateur – which will detract from your yard and make you wish you had just employed a pro to start with.

A professional glass pool fencing expert will know exactly what they’re doing. They will be able to put your fence up fast and securely by following industry accepted techniques – techniques that you probably don’t even know exist.

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Bathroom Trends For 2018

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Bathroom Trend

Having the best bathroom in the neighbourhood, or amongst your friends is a homeowner’s dream. While you might be able to do some of the work, you will require a licensed plumber to do all the new pipe work or fix those dripping taps. Bathrooms have become the ‘house spa‘ where an individual can relax in privacy as well as doing the normal bathroom activities there. You can still brush your teeth, take a shower, wash your hands, and go to the loo, but they are becoming a lot more to families these days. Running a steaming hot bath, be it a spa bath or just a plain one, you can relax and wash away the stresses of the day.

The Bath Path

It’s been due to the change in house design that has taken the bathroom on an evolutionary journey from a place for a wash, shower, and toilet, to something far more modern, innovative and useful. Look at homes built in the 50’s and 60’s and you can see that the lack of space was the main problem. You didn’t really have a lot of time to spend in the bathroom, and the kitchen was for food preparation, not lounging about drinking coffee with family and friends. Most houses had just the one bathroom and spending more than a few minutes in there would raise the ire of other family members.

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Outdoor Lighting for Winter

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Outdoor Lighting

Shorter days doesn’t necessarily mean less outdoor enjoyment

Many Australian states offer fabulous outdoor weather through March, April and May as winter approaches. There’s a very pleasant temperature, not a lot of bugs like mozzies, and an evening breeze which is cool and refreshing, but not cold. However, shorter days despite daylight saving, means homeowners don’t have the opportunity to enjoy their patios and gardens before it gets dark. If you want to reclaim those enjoyable hours, then ask your landscape designer to suggest, plan, and add professional lighting to the outdoor areas.

Subtle Use of Outdoor Lighting

Homes no longer operate those landing strip lights lining your driveway and paths. The outdoor lighting today is made to give subtle washes of light to spots such as paths and special plants rather than a blazing spotlight that you got from the old style of outdoor lights. There is a lot of science these days in the design of outdoor lighting and a landscape design expert knows where to buy them and where to best place them. Guests and owners can enjoy the outdoor space and the beauty of specific plants or architectural features which are usually lost in the dark by adding lights that provide depth perception to a previously unlit garden area. By adding light sources that overlap, you can see objects in greater depth and detail. The power of light, properly placed and designed, can transform a flat surface into one that has intricate shapes and features. A professional landscape designer can set up lights that will help you enjoy your yard at night. Coloured lights can be positioned as well to illuminate special features.

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Which Type of Automatic Pool Cleaner is Best

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Pool Cleaner

If you are tired of constantly cleaning your pool, it may be time to invest in one of the automatic pool cleaners available. The trouble is, since there are several types you may not know which one is best.  In fact, all of them do a good job for the kind of cleaning they were designed to do, so to choose the best type for your pool, you first need to look at the type of debris that gets in it.

Large debris

If the pool is close to trees and shrubs that drop leaves, nuts or berries and twigs into the pool, or if grass seems to be a problem in the pool, choose a cleaner that is good for cleaning larger debris. These are called pressure cleaners. Some types connect straight to the pool pump, while others have a booster pump. The cleaner moves around the pool using the water pressure and it has its own bag to hold the debris, which saves you cleaning the pool filter so much.

This kind of cleaner is low maintenance and very durable, but it doesn’t scrub the walls of the pool.

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Best Shade Sail Shapes

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Shade Sail

Shade Sails Perth offer many advantages with their shade sails for business, the main one being that they give customers a cool, shady place to relax in. That means they are still close to your business so there is more chance of getting a sale from them. However, unless you choose the right shape sail it is highly likely that it won’t provide the shade you expected, so the investment will be wasted.

Triangles

We see many triangular shaped sails around these days, but do they offer the kind of shade that is needed? In many cases the answer is no. This is because of the way sails are cut out. When looking up at a sail, you may think the sides were cut straight, and it is the tension that makes them look curved. This is not correct. All sails are cut with curved sides, so many triangular sails lose a good portion of material from all three sides, leaving just a spot in the middle to throw shade. You’ll get next to no shade from a triangle.

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The After-Pool Affair

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Pool Cleaners

Pools are great. Once you get the idea to have one, you move like greased lightning and get one installed. Then comes the maintenance. The chemicals, the water testing, the pump filter cleaning, pump maintenance, raking the leaves, and vacuuming the bottom. In the summertime, some of these are daily chores. Keeping the pool pristine clear and water pH right is an aspect of garden maintenance. Either you had turf to mow, fertilize and weed, or you replaced them with a pool.

Pool to Go

But once the family has grown up and flown the nest, and you are either too old to keep up the pool maintenance or you have other priorities, and nobody is using the pool anymore, it might be an idea to have it removed or have a pool renovation. Obviously, there are experts who will remove it for you and they will even pay you for the pool itself, if it’s fibreglass. Don’t forget the collateral damage on removal as well.

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Creative Garden Pot Ideas for Ordinary Household Items

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Garden Pot Ideas

Lacking garden space in your yard or the budget for expensive garden pots? Turn ordinary household items from your windowsill, tin cans, recycled tires, tubs, to old dresser drawers into designer garden pots. Here are some creative ideas that can help you beautify your outside living area on a budget:

  • Table drawers painted with pastel or bright colors can serve as an attractive vase for your flowers.
  • Lean your old shutters against the wall outside your home, repurposing them by filling the slots with moist plants like aloes and mosses.
  • A cardboard letter can be the best place to put small flowers like baby’s breath and forget me nots. Have its hollow side lined with a plastic bag and filled with soil and its base poked with holes to allow excess water to drain.
  • You can never go wrong with terrariums for your mosses, ferns, or violets. While they may look expensive, terrariums are really easy to create and maintain.
  • An old canvas hung on a wall or fence can also serve to contain plants like thin ferns or creeping vines in its pockets.

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Professional Carpet Cleaning Tips – Always Hire A Qualified Professional

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Carpet Cleaning

A beautiful home should also smell good and clean. To maintain cleanliness in your home, you should do more than just vacuuming your carpets. If you have not cleaned your carpets and rugs for the last one year, it is time to buy a professional carpet cleaning service. A carpet is one of the dirtiest things in your house. Besides being stepped on a daily basis by humans, carpets get soiled by pet urine and fur. As a result, they could host dust mites, soil particles, fleas, fur, and stains. A soiled carpet can stink and have visible stains. If you are thinking of cleaning your own carpets and rugs, let go of this idea.

Without special cleaning equipment and professional skills, you cannot restore your dirty carpeting to its original color and beauty. It would be wiser to employ the services of an expert who understands that floor mats and rugs are made of different materials and they cannot be cleaned in the same way. When a reliable and knowledgeable cleaner arrives at your home, they will first inspect your carpeting. By so doing, they will determine whether your mats are made of a natural fiber like wool or synthetic fibers. Additionally, they will do a patch test with their high-quality cleaning products. The selected patch will not be easily noticeable and the test will reveal how well the carpet fibers respond to the cleaning products.

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Types of Landscapers

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Type of Landscapers

The landscaping industry has many professionals and the best depends on your projects demands. You may yearn for a beautifully looking yard but fail to actualize your dream because of hiring the wrong professional.

At first, hiring a landscaper might be your thought but the person to get your project to fruition may be a landscape designer or a landscape architect.

So which landscaping professional is ideal for you project? Here is a rundown on the types of landscape professionals.

Landscape architect

Landscape Architects are professionals with training in technical and creative skills to design irrigation systems, grading, paths, layouts of drivers, and other planting plans, construction details and hardscape features.

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Your Wrought Iron Fencing Choice

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Wrought Iron Fencing

The advice we got from fencing professionals is if you want to enhance the visual landscape of your yard, then a wrought iron fence might be the best choice for you. It works like any other fence in a practical application sense. You get the element of privacy; it keeps your pets off the street, the kids are safe, and it helps keep intruders out.

There are some additional benefits a wrought iron fence gives your home and yard that other fences do not. A fence made from wrought iron adds some elegance and style to your home. There are some benefits to appreciate when you select wrought iron as a fencing option.

See Through Security

Apart from the security aspect that a wrought iron fence gives you, it still allows passers-by to see landscaping around your home. Considering you can have any design you like made to order, it becomes a beautiful customised enclosure. A design like that provides enough security for your property and also makes your home stand out from the rest.

The fact that it is see-through and transparent does not lessen the security aspect of your fence. The top rail has pointed posts, making it hard and dangerous for intruders to climb into your property.

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