We can design a lighting system for your outdoor living environment that will provide you with an extension of usability, enhancements to the landscape architectural design forms and an expansion of your functional usage of space. Low-voltage deck lighting can involve several styles and types of lighting fixture considerations.

Some backyard foliage illuminated by low-voltage landscape lighting

Path Lighting

Is your backyard hard to navigate at night? Landscape lighting can provide your family with effective and safe navigation around your property.

Never get lost in the dark backyard again!

In selecting low voltage lighting fixtures it is important to keep in mind that the main objective is to provide illuminating contributions to the landscape’s function zones and architecturally relevant features. See some of our swimming pool construction for examples of low-voltage landscape lighting. Here is an example of a great classical home, improved by night with low-voltage landscape lighting.

Low-voltage lighting is a very effective form of backyard illumination.

In selecting landscape lighting fixtures, consider the light’s illuminating pattern and bulb strength intensity before deciding on the aesthetic appeal of the physical characteristics of any single fixture. Although the style of a fixture’s appearance can become an attribute to the appeal of the hardscape characteristics, keep in mind that the objective is to compliment the subtle illusions that proper low-voltage lighting can provide.

Foliage Lighting

An example front yard and trees with low voltage home lighting. Bring your house to life at night!

Direct Illumination

To exaggerate the focus of a yard, low-voltage lighting can be used to bring out and focus on one part of the garden. When this is done, your centerpiece can become a fountain, structure, pool, flora or other hardscape features.

Example of plant illuminated with down lighting.

Anatomy of a spa

We make available a variety of several interchangeable power jet spa nozzles that allow for a distribution of concentrated or dispersed massaging water streams that deliver on a promise to relax your whole body! These features combined with our proprietary internally plumbed manifolds can provide forced air at the touch of a button and or can deliver operationally adjustable volumes of water dedicated to the specific jet returns. These custom features are our standards at providing our clients with a truly manageable relaxation environment.

Anatomy of a Spa

In preparing to build our spas and spa placements, we measure our client’s body contours in order to anatomically configure the seating conformities to the positions of realization that truly define the term “customized”. Our therapeutic Power Jets can be positioned at multiple body pressure point locations (upper back, mid-back, lower back, calf and feet) providing you an “in-body” experience that will melt away the aches and pains of your day to day over exertions.

We make available a variety of several interchangeable power jet spa nozzles that allow for a distribution of concentrated or dispersed massaging water streams that deliver on a promise to relax your whole body! These features combined with our proprietary internally plumbed manifolds can provide forced air at the touch of a button and or can deliver operationally adjustable volumes of water dedicated to the specific jet returns. These custom features are our standards at providing our clients with a truly manageable relaxation environment.

Palm trees lit up by low voltage landscape lighting

Low-Voltage Deck Lighting

We can design a system for your outdoor living environment that will provide you with an extension of usability, enhancements to the architectural design forms and an expansion of your functional usage of space. Low voltage deck lighting can involve several styles and types of lighting fixture considerations.

Path Lighting

Here's a hardscape illuminated through path lighting. Never get lost in the dark backyard again!

In selecting low voltage lighting fixtures it is important to keep in mind that the main objective is to provide illuminating contributions to the landscape’s function zones and architecturally relevant features. See some of our swimming pool construction for examples of low-voltage landscape lighting. Here is a classical home, improved by night with low-voltage landscape lighting:

Low voltage lighting is a very effective form of illumination.

In selecting landscape lighting fixtures, consider the light’s illuminating pattern and bulb strength intensity before deciding on the aesthetic appeal of the physical characteristics of any single fixture. Although the style of a fixture’s appearance can become an attribute to the appeal of the hardscape characteristics, keep in mind that the objective is to compliment the subtle illusions that proper low-voltage lighting can provide.

Foliage Lighting

An example front yard and trees with low voltage home lighting. Bring your house to life at night!

Direct Illumination

To exaggerate the focus of a yard, low-voltage lighting can be used to bring out and focus on one part of the garden. When this is done, your centerpiece can become a fountain, structure, pool, flora or other hardscape features.

Example of plant illuminated with down lighting.

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After installation, we do a sample saturation test to see how successful the installation is.

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Finally, a water conscious backyard that saves money, water and your time for maintenance.

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We have designed and built many swimming pools in Roseville, Rocklin, Granite Bay, Lincoln, Loomis, Newcastle, Penryn, Auburn, Cool, and in Sacramento County, Folsom, Orangevale, Fair Oaks, Citrus Heights, the city of Sacramento and in El Dorado Hills, Latrobe, Shingle Springs, Cameron Park, and many others areas and we have aided many people’s enjoyment while living outdoors “Sacramento Style” almost all year long.

Taking advantage of the wonderful backyard landscaping opportunities including:

• Waterfalls
• Water Features
• Koi Ponds
• Vanishing Edge Swimming Pools
• Infinity Edge Swimming Pools
• Caribbean Shelf Swimming Pools
• Beach Entry Swimming Pools
• Cabo Shelf Swimming Pools
• Built-in Spas
• Portable Spas

These are all part of the many, many possibilities in Designing and Building Swimming Pools that can aid your enjoyment and extend your outdoor family life.

An individual approach generally conflicts with the cookie cutter approach to production sales. Cookie cutters style approaches are designed to streamline sales and production while squeezing your pool into their framework of the least for the most!

Production sales approaches often capture greater market share on the perception of a lower price. The reality is that the price you are getting will include a five to ten percent sales commission for the salesperson plus as much as fifteen percent minimum profit margin required by the production builder. This can consume as much 25% of your pool-building budget before you ever get started!

This scenario often forces the production builder to solicit pricing from an array of sub-contractors competing for pieces of your project. In such an environment, each sub-contractor must be low bidder in order to secure the work. Therefore, he/she certainly can’t make you the beneficiary of a more sophisticated approach when lowest pricing defines the limits of intentions.

It is your choice to benefit from a fully anticipated approach to the construction of your Swimming Pool or hope someone can fulfill an undefined commitment with 75% of your pool budget. It is your obligation to discover where your dollars are being applied and your responsibility to hold your salesperson accountable.

Our clients are required to be involved and therefore, as informed consumers they will take a little more time to become familiar with the choices and consequences of those decisions. We guide you into excellent, informed decisions.

If we are to meet your expectations then those expectations will require identification. A Pool Design starts with a Pool shape and should continue with the other very important layers of Designing Swimming Pools that represent the requirements for delegating the intricacies to our in-house trades-persons that will be involved.

A simple one page swimming pool drawing can’t possible convey a meaningful approach to swimming pool structural reinforcement, swimming pool engineering, swimming pool electrical engineering for the load calculations, Swimming Pool hydraulic engineering for pumping and piping size and capacities, elevation transitions and a written Swimming Pool Construction Specification.

In order to articulate the true meaning for the intended level of commitment necessary in building a quality Swimming Pool and Outdoor Living Environment you will want everyone on the same page.

When offered a Free Plan ask yourself, who benefits from the absence of a define commitment and how much clearer will the hidden picture within the puzzle become when realizing there are missing pieces.

We would like to add, that during your selection process of Swimming Pool Builders and Landscape Contractors we realize that there is a market for both custom and production builders. We wish you to identify us, as a Custom Swimming Pool Builder and a Custom Landscape Contractor focused on delivering a product that is commensurable with our credentialed knowledge.

We desire participation in projects where these attributes have a need for application.

Swimming Pool Engineering solutions involving Soil Composition, Reinforced Concrete, Drainage, irrigation, low-voltage landscape lighting, wet and dry utilities and swimming Pool Infrastructure, doesn’t cost our clients, it pays those willing to measure the differences between hype Vs fact. A summation of this point can be gained through the following statement:

“Experience is what you get, when you didn’t get what you paid for.”

Weather board fencing provides a little more interest in its appearance as it consists of wedge-shaped strips of wood, 1 in ( 2cm) in thickness at one edge, tapering to 0.5 in (1cm) at the other. Each strip overlaps the next by about 1 in(2cm). The advantage of this design is that it is virtually peep proof.

Basic Wooden Fence

Interwoven fencing is very attractive but inclined to open up a little, especially in the cheaper units. Thin strips of wood, approximately 4in (10cm) wide and 0.5 in (1cm) thick, are interwoven one with another. It is a strong fence if it is supported well. Trellis fencing is very cheap and more suited as a support for climbing and trailing plants. It is not a strong design but can be used to good effect for covering unsightly walls or as an additional part of a fence design. Sections 18-24in (45-60cm) deep look most attractive if attached to the top of, say, a close-boarded fence. Used in this manner it helps to lighten an otherwise heavy, solid design.

Trellis fencing usually consists of laths of wood 1 by 3/4in ( 2.5 by 1.5cm) thick, fastened across each other vertically and horizontally to form 6-8in (15-20cm) squares. The laths are attached to a more substantial framing of 1 or 1in (2.5 or 3cm) square timber.

Wattle and Cleft Chestnut

Two other cheap types of fencing are wattle and cleft chestnut. The former is useful where a rural or rustic effect is desired. The woven, basket-like construction produces a very sturdy fencing panel. The panels are usually attached to lengths of oak stakes driven securely into the ground. The latter fence can be purchased with the individual pieces of cleft chestnut spaced out at different intervals. It is possible to purchase rolls of this fencing with the paling nearly touching. The rolls are usually attached to strong oak posts by galvanized wire. In their construction, individual cleft chestnut palings are wired top and bottom to strong horizontal wires.

One of the latest advances in fence production is the sale of kits which are so accurately machined and complete that even an unskilled person can erect panels without any trouble. With these kits have come new ideas in design, and many can be made up into contemporary designs. This is especially useful where bold effects are required in the construction of patios. Many ultra-modern properties are being built and this advance in fence appearance will be welcomed by their owners.

Fencing can also be provided in the form of chain link or mesh netting. The best quality is heavily galvanized to withstand the rigors of the weather. A small fence should consider wire mesh as a popular option. A more recent innovation is the plastic coating of chain link over the galvanized wire. Standard colors of dark green, black, white, yellow and light green can be obtained. Wire netting is another cheaper and useful fencing material. Wire netting is easy and quick to erect as it requires only moderately substantial supporting posts of timber or angle iron spaced approximately every 6-8ft (1.8-2.4m) apart according to the height and length of the fence being erected.

Another type of fencing is known as rustic. This is constructed from larch or pine wood of circular section. The main uprights are usually quite substantial and are cut from 3-4in (7-10cm) diameter timber while the design work between them is of thinner section, usually about 11-2in (3-5cm) diameter. The most popular design consists of a diamond pattern approximately 18in (45cm ) in area. It is sold by the square foot either with the bark on or removed, stained and varnished. The result is a most natural fence or screen which blends in very well with the surroundings.