Training: AWS Template

Hello. This is Chuck from Advanced Waterfall Systems. In this video today, we're gonna show you how to use your AWS Templating Kit to template your pool to accept any AWS system. Okay? With the purchase of any AWS system, when needed, we supply an AWS Templating Kit.

When you receive the AWS Templating Kit, it's gonna come in a box like this, a big box. Right? Like this. Okay? And then inside this box is gonna be a smaller box.

Well, the reason that there's a box inside a box is because this box is gonna get shipped back, but I'll get to that later. Alright? So when you receive it, you open up this box and then you have this in here. Inside this smaller box is everything you need to template the pool. Okay?

It comes with a roll or a partial roll of tar paper. It comes with proper tape. It comes with alignment, an alignment plate. It comes with a razor. It comes with wax markers, and it comes with some bubble wrap.

Okay? So when you receive the kit, you take everything out, and you use these tools to to template the pool. Now we're gonna show you how to use the AWS templating kit to template your pool for any AWS system. So here on a job site of a project that we're building, and we are going to show you the process of templating. Okay?

We're gonna be templating from this corner right here all the way through. This is a large Ultimate Grotto. It's gonna have a big grotto, reinforced walls with a side entrance, all the way down to this area right over here, all the way down to this area. Okay. There's gonna be a slide that comes in, big beautiful steps, and all kinds of fun stuff.

So let's get rolling on showing you guys how to template a pool for an AWS system. So, essentially, the process of templating is not terribly difficult. It's pretty simple. What we do is we use three foot wide tar paper along with some alignment marks, a crayon, a razor, and some weighted material to kinda weight everything down. Alright?

So the first step is we are going to roll out the tar paper on one section of the beam and get that set up. Alright. So the guys are starting to lay the first piece down. Edgar decided to start with the side piece. He's using the straight edge of the tar paper just to kinda run right along here, and you'll see he'll cut it, and then he'll do some other measurements.

We you wanna weight it down. That's the important part. You wanna weigh it down so if you get a breeze, things don't blow around. Now this is all straight and square, so we can use the straight edge of the tar paper. But as you can see on the template, that's where we're gonna have to cut it.

So you can see what Edgar did. We overlapped the pieces. Right? And then he's gonna make a cut right across here, and then these two pieces are gonna butt together. We're gonna fit that side in, make a cut across both, take off the excess, and then everything will butt up smooth.

We'll tape it, align it, and then we'll do a a cut across the front and a cut across the back to get the exact template. Alright. So you can see what Edgar did. Right? He we laid this out.

We taped it, and then he will use this alignment panel, right, where you alignment plate where you lay this in, mark it, and then we're gonna put letters here so you know exactly where it goes. You tape it down, and there'll be letters, and everything will be numbered. You see what Edgar's doing. He's overlapping the tar paper and then picking a common angle where the paper's overlapped and then striking a line so that they will butt together. So Edgar's moving right along.

You see what he did. He cut the angle, butted them together, put the alignment marks, used the alignment plate. So then we're gonna number everything. But one comment he made is, if it's real windy, okay, what he was doing is instead of leaving this loose, if it was real windy, you might wanna cut it as you go. Right?

We're gonna cut it at the end. But if it's super windy and wind can catch underneath things, you might wanna cut it as you go. This little trick doing the, templating. So a little trick here in this act you know, this this is a soft curve, and Edgar could probably get away with making two pieces out of this radius, but we're gonna cut it to three. And the reason is we're gonna make each piece shorter.

Okay? So you have three pieces on this soft curve. Like I said, we're going down to there. And the reason is after it's cut and you roll it up, the pieces are gonna be not as long. If they're if they're, meaning, like, when you roll it up into a tube, they're not gonna be long this way.

Keep your pieces at, like, seven, eight feet. That's so this is more of a the reason we're using three pieces here and the reason you wanna keep under keep your pieces under, like, seven or eight feet on a radius is so when they're rolled up, they're not super bulky in the box you have to ship back to us. So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna number everything. Every panel is gonna have a number. One, two, 3456, 7.

And then every connection to every panel is gonna have a letter. So these boxes were done on purpose, right, like this. So you're gonna have one to seven there, and then these are gonna have a letter so that you know what how it all lines up. So there's gonna be a centerline on this waterfall. Now on your plan, you'll have a centerline that's marked located.

So you wanna pick that centerline from the plan and put it on the paper. Now for this is for demonstration, so we don't have have a waterfall to build for this. It was just to show you guys how we do it. So Edgar did good here, and we're just gonna take that line, and we're gonna mark it like this, and we're gonna put a c right through it. A line with a c is the center point.

Now we're gonna mark the backside and cut the backside. Okay. For the last step before we roll all these template pieces up, what we wanna do is we wanna photograph each one. Okay? We're gonna photograph each one.

We're gonna video the whole thing. And what else I want you to do is I want you to do a video for you. This way, you're send the information back to them. I want you to send us a picture and video of the whole property. As waterfall builders for twenty five years, it always helps give us context of what we're building around.

We build you a beautiful waterfall in our AWS, you know, fabrication facility. So if we have pictures and video of the whole property and what's going on in the yard, it might actually inspire us to to create more unique personalized water feature. Alright. So we finished up the templating. It's one, two, three, four, five.

It's seven pieces. Nothing's more than 10 foot long, so it maxes out around seven or eight foot long per piece, seven pieces. And we cut the front and we cut the back. Okay? So now with this template, we got the alignment marks.

We got everything set up. With this template, we're gonna be able to take this back to our shop and lay it out. We'll know the we'll know the tile line or the waterline, and we'll know the back of the footing. So we'll know exactly what we have to build on. Alright?

So that's important, how all this dead on accurate. So when we work on it at our shop, we can build the perfect waterfall for a AWS. Okay. So we wrapped up the templating for this AWS system. Our project manager rolled up all the templates.

He taped them all up, and in this case, he taped them all together. Alright? So at this stage, you'll have all your templates right here. This is a fairly sizable project, so this has got about eight or nine, I think, seven or eight seven or eight templates, something like that. Okay.

The next step is you're going to ship these back to us. So you're gonna take this box, is a small box. Okay? And this comes with a return label right here. Okay?

So you take some of this bubble wrap that we shipped to you that was in the same box, and you put some of this bubble wrap in the box. Boom. Then the next step is you take these templates and you put them in the box like that. Right? Put them in the box, put a little bit more bubble wrap on top.

Okay? Everything's secured, and then you close the box up, tape it real good on both sides all the way around, makes nice and secure, and then you ship it back to us. Okay? And then once we receive this template, we will take the templates, we will open them up, put them onto our warehouse floor, and then we will build your AWS system on that template just like we're in the backyard. So give us a call if you have any questions.

Thank you.