Training: AWS One Tier Formal

Hello. This is Chuck from Advanced Waterfall Systems, and today we're gonna show you how to install one of our formal AWS systems on our display pool. We are ready to rock and roll to install one of our systems. This is how it comes. When you order one of these systems, they come palletized.

This particular feature is a foot and a half high by six foot wide, and you have two caps which are right here. You have all the plumbing built in, and you have the, sheer descent which goes goes into the plumbing, and you have some anchors that get anchored in. So this essentially gets anchored together, and it gets anchored down. Connect the plumbing, put the sheer descent in, glue it all up, put the caps on, and you're done. So everything you need is here except the work.

Let's show you how this thing gets installed. Alright. So we're starting, and it is 04:15PM. That's how confident we are how fast it is. We're starting at four 04:00 in the afternoon.

Okay. So we're standing on our on our display pool. This is where this one and a half by six foot Formal Water feature is gonna get installed. There's a concrete footing that's poured here, and we are gonna anchor into it. So if you were installing this on a concrete pool, you can anchor this right to the pool shelf or the deck.

And if it it was a fiberglass pool or a vinyl liner, you would pour a concrete footing right in this area. Now the plumbing is already in in place. We ran it there. Okay. So you would either run the plumbing into the footing or cut out the old concrete and run the plumbing.

Now it's located in the proper spot because the aluminum frame is gonna sit here and here, and this runs up right into the middle of it. The guys are getting ready to rock and roll and bring the first piece in. So as you can see, these pieces are pretty light. Two guys can carry one piece no problem. I think this piece weighs, I think, a 150 or a 170 pounds, for the whole thing, so it goes in real easy.

So the guys are installing a industrial grade water stop material on the bottom of this feature, so that it is nice and simple just to place when we put it down. Okay. So we set the first piece. We used an industrial strength EPDM water stop on the bottoms of these features so when they sit in place, they go in quick and it creates a waterproof barrier. Okay.

We had to move the plumbing a little bit from where it was, so that was a slight delay, but make sure you locate your plumbing in the proper spot that it comes up inside the frame. Now the guys are gonna set the second piece to keep moving. All of these frames are all predrilled. Everything lines up. Okay?

So once you put these pieces in, you can see right here, there's a hole right there and it lines up so that you put a bolt through here and a bolt through there, and there's four. Two on the back panel and two on the front panel. Okay? So you put four bolts and it bolts these these two units together. So there's a bonding lug on this panel.

You're gonna now we're gonna connect the bonding wire to the little lug that's on the aluminum frame. The pieces are bolted together and the bonding lug is attached. And now we've got four plates, two in each side that you drill down and you put an anchor in and crank it down. Right? You can see the plates right here.

The predrilled holes, you just drill through that hole, drill into the concrete, put an anchor in, and then then bolt it down. And you do that, and you got four spots. One, two, three, four. And then each piece is anchored down in two places so it's very secure. Alright.

So as you just saw, we drilled the anchors in in four spots, anchored this thing down, and now we're gonna put the pieces on. Right? Now these pieces are all numbered. Right? Four, five, six, everything's numbered.

Right? So everything knows you know exactly where to put it. That goes right there. Everyone's numbered on the front and the back, so it goes in real easy. Put some adhesive on here and just glue them in.

Okay. So now we did the veneer work, the little fill ins. Now we're gonna put the sheer descent. Everything's prebuilt. The sheer descent fixed right in here perfectly.

So we use a chem link m one caulk. It's gonna get a bead of it right here that goes in, and then the sheer descent will get plumbed in and set right in place. The piece is glued in and the plumbing is glued in, and now we're gonna put the caps on. K. So what we're gonna do what we're doing now is we're putting down more of this industrial grade water stop as a perimeter, and then we're gonna cut out a couple little spots, four on each side.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And we're gonna put our m one adhesive down in four spots, and then we're gonna set our caps down so the caps will be adhered in place because of the adhesive, and the water stop will make a nice clean edge all the way around that you can't it creates a uniform barrier all the way around. So there's more than one way to do things. Okay? This is the way we do it.

Okay? But if you're more comfortable, you can use a mortar or a thin set on the bottom and set it and on the top. Either way, there's always more more than one way to skin a cap. Advanced Waterfall Systems and Genesis Waterfalls are all about consistency and product process and profitability. So whatever is easier for you and whatever you're used to working with and makes it go smoother and faster, that's what you can do.

So as you can see, what our guy just did is he marked the center. He marked the center so he knows where to lay the caps. Right? So always measure your center before you set your caps, especially if you're using thin set mortar and things like that. So you see they put down these eight dots of this m one marine adhesive, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Now when they set the caps, the weight of the caps will push down and adhere the adhesives, and then it won't go anywhere. So there you have it. The caps are on. You have a finished waterfall. It is running completely installed.

It is $5.54. I think we started this at 04:15 or something, right around there. So you're less than hour and forty minutes from a pallet to a completed running waterfall. AWS is all about consistency and product process and profitability. Two guys, two hours from a pallet to a finished waterfall.

And look how beautiful it looks.