Training: Genesis Standalone

Thank you for your interest in Advanced Waterfall Systems. Welcome to our training video library. Important note, before you install any AWS system, make sure that you watch all of our safety videos, especially our lifting and rigging safety video to ensure that all your installations are safe. So here we are ready to install one of our Genesis Standalone kits. Right?

We call it Standalone because it's not connected to pool. A lot of these projects are on a pool. This particular one that we're going to install right now, it can be installed in any yard with its own pump and basin that the water will recirculate. So we're gonna show you how easy and simple and convenient it is to install one of these beautiful kits. So right now, it is 11:16AM 11:16AM on August 16.

So we're gonna show you how long this baby takes to install. The guys are ready to rock and roll like we said. Two guys, one day, no equipment. Now, our guys have special skills, but to build this baby, we took all the heavy lifting out of this. We did all the hard work.

We designed this in a way where nothing weighs over like a 170 pounds, so two guys can maneuver any one of these pieces very easily and assemble. So what we're doing here is this is right there. They're kind of dug out a little bit of ground and they're compacting it. That's where the waterfall base and the cap are gonna sit. So we're just taking an extra step and digging that out.

We're gonna put some cinder blocks down just too wide, too deep to kind of create a nice level platform that's somewhat stable so that they could set the base on there. And that stops any kind of settlement because you do have a waterfall cap and you wanna try to keep that level. You could also use compacted soil or some gravel, just a river grab, some sort of like compacted angular gravel to get it nice and level. So now our guys are starting to dig the hole. They're gonna kinda dig out all the ground and level the bottom of the hole so they can set this basin in there that the pump will ultimately sit in there and then get filled with water so it can just simply recirculate.

And then we'll put some gravel on top. So the guys have dug the hole and they leveled out the bottom of the hole and compacted it. Now we're gonna set the base in place. Level it up. Ready to go.

So our guys are unboxing the waterfall in a box kit slash pallet. We're gonna break this baby apart, pull it all apart, and then we're able to take the sides off too. Okay. So the rocks are easy to roll out off the palette. When we build these things, we put the rocks in first, and then we put the walls on second so that the walls can be removed easily.

So every one of our Genesis natural kits comes with a standalone kit, which is this one. It will come with the basin, the pump, the plumbing, and pretty much everything you need. The, pool one will come with the same plumbing. It won't come with a basin or pump because that's part of the pool, but it will come with dye because you're gonna cement this all together. You have to provide the cement and the sand.

The Genesis Standalone does not come with dye because there is no cement work. It's dry laid. It sits in a landscape which sits on a compact a compacted base, but there's no mortar because mortar will crack if you sit it on something without a footing. Every project does come with this, which is a diagram. So when we build these, when our master project managers design and build these, they number them.

So you can see every the way everything's numbered, so your installer will know exactly how to put these rocks back in place. So they're in the same exact layout as on the Rockstar stage. So the basin's going in, it's two piece. It's basically a, like a kind of a square of rock, and we cut it in half so that it was lighter. So those pieces, every nothing weighs more than a 100 and pounds, so two guys can set these in place to towel in the center so that the plumbing can run through the center, and then the next piece will go on the back and kind of hide all the plumbing.

So the guys got the basin, the two piece base, they got the front and the back end, it's all leveled and it's over, it's sitting over top of the basin. The next step is the cap, they'll put the cap on and it is overhanging the basin so when they put the cap on and the water runs, it runs into the basin, it doesn't spill out. Things are moving along. It is 12:13PM, same day. Project is moving along as planned.

Right. Mhmm. So our guys got the base in and the cap set and the plumbing in, and, now they're starting to break apart the side rocks, for the kit. They're gonna put them onto the, hand truck and bring them over, and now they're just gonna set them. There's six this particular kit has six rocks, three on each side, and they're gonna set them basically on the ground.

Right? They're dry laid, so they could just sit on the ground. And the cool part about this this idea of it is a kit, but it also customizable is that these rocks can sit. They can go straight. They could be concave where they come in, or they can go back.

You have complete flexibility in the way you set these. You can bring them different ways depending on what you like or what the site kind of lends itself to. So you don't get no easier than this. You know, two goes to two, four goes to four. One of our project managers had an idea.

This is not sequential. So, you know, Harvey was saying, why don't we have number one is the first piece you put in. Number two is the second piece you put in. That's not a bad idea. We may do that in the future.

But right now, it's just about putting the numbers together. Right? There's the diagram with the numbers and there's the numbers. Match up the numbers on the whole thing and you can't go wrong. Like I said, we did all the heavy lifting.

What time is it? Where do we start? Is it eleven? 12:30? We started this at, eleven or 11:15 or something.

I have it in the video. So we're moving right along. So here we are. We're all done. Hit it, Manuelo.

Finished. Done. Waterfall completed. A 100% gravel mulch plants took us we had that stuff ready to go, a little bit of time, but you have a completed water feature, and it is 01:07PM. What time do we start?

11:16, nine minutes shy of two hours from beginning to end, and that looks just like the diagram and the kit that the customer picked.