Learn how any landscape or pool contractor can successfully install AWS systems.
Chuck Rienzi directly addresses the most common contractor objection — that their crews cannot build waterfalls — by explaining how Advanced Waterfall Systems has divided every large project into three independently manageable components. The waterfall and rockwork component is custom designed, pre-plumbed, tested at the factory, and shipped ready to install; pricing, sales, and profit models are all systemized. The slide component is covered by dedicated training videos. The landscape component — setting boulders, rocks, steps, and crushed stone — draws on widely available skills that contractors can handle in-house or subcontract to a landscape company. The result is the ability to take on large custom showpiece projects and earn above-average profit without prior waterfall-building experience.
What You'll Learn
- AWS is described as the first natural stone custom-designed real rock waterfall building system ever created
- Large AWS projects break into three parts: the waterfall/rockwork component, the slide, and the landscape component
- The waterfall component is factory custom designed, pre-plumbed, and tested — fully systemized including pricing, sales model, and shipping
- Slide installation is covered by dedicated training videos; AWS offers nearly 50 training and project installation videos in total
- The landscape component uses standard skills (setting boulders, rocks, steps, crushed stone) that are widely available in-house or via landscape subcontractors
- Contractors do not need waterfall-building experience; the three-part system allows them to manage complexity and deliver above-average profit
Frequently Asked Questions
Do my crews need waterfall building experience to install an AWS system?
No. AWS has systemized the installation process so any competent contractor can complete an AWS project successfully and profitably. Factory pre-plumbing, detailed training videos, and a proven profit model handle the complexity that would otherwise require specialized experience.
How does AWS break down a large waterfall or grotto project for contractors?
AWS divides every project into three parts: (1) the waterfall and rockwork component, which is custom designed, pre-plumbed, and systemized at the factory; (2) the slide, which has dedicated installation training videos; and (3) the landscape component — setting boulders, rocks, and steps — which draws on standard landscaping skills.
What training resources does AWS provide for contractors installing their systems?
AWS offers nearly 50 training and project installation videos covering all aspects of AWS installations, including specialized guidance for slide installation. The video library serves as an extensive education platform.
Can I hire a landscape subcontractor to handle part of an AWS installation?
Yes. The landscape component — setting loose boulders, rocks, steps, and crushed stone — uses standard landscaping skills. Contractors can handle this in-house if they have the capability, or subcontract it to a landscape company they already work with.
Is the stone in AWS systems real natural stone?
Yes. AWS uses real natural stone throughout. Chuck notes that AWS is the first-ever natural stone custom-designed real rock waterfall building system, distinguishing it from imitation or artificial stone products.
Video transcript
Hello. This is Chuck from Advanced Waterfall Systems. And today, we're gonna explain to you why any contractor with half a brain and a little bit of common sense can install any AWS system successfully and profitably without end up in a courtroom of problems. Right? So it's funny.
We developed AWS, and first of all, people don't the things that we that people say to us when we explain what we do and the product company we built, the first thing I say is, is it real rock? Because there's never been a natural stone custom designed real rock waterfall building system ever. It's first of its kind. So even when you tell them 14 times it's real, they still say, is it real? It's real.
Number one, it's real. Then number two, they say, yo. My guys can't do that. My guys can't build waterfalls. And I tell them they don't need to know how to build waterfalls.
I wanna explain to you why any half decent contractor can install an AWS system. It's like any problem. When you take a problem that might look monumental and you break it down into bite sized pieces, manageable pieces. So we have done in Advanced Waterfall systems. We have broken down these projects into three parts.
Okay. The first part is the waterfall component. In this case, that grotto, that rockwork, and that grotto. Plumbing's built in, natural stone, custom design, engineered, preplumb, test it, the whole bit. We have systemized the waterfall component.
Pricing, sales, profit model, testing, shipping, all of it. It's systemized, okay, for success without having waterfall building experience. Okay? The second part, the slide. Slides can be a little tricky to install.
We've systemized that process. We have training videos on that, on how to install these slides. Systemized installation with exact efficient fast results. So we systemized that. We have, I think almost, almost 50 training and and project install videos on our website.
So we have a pretty extensive education platform to educate you on how to do this. Okay? Number three, the landscape component. Right? The third part.
The third component is the landscape component. Well, from a landscape perspective, you're talking about loose boulders, setting rocks, setting steps, using crushed stone, well known skills. These are pretty regularly available skills. So that skill is available. It may be available in house through your company, or it might be available through a third party vendor relationship that you have.
But landscape skills, which is the third component of the AWS system, is readily available. So when you take these big projects, and it could be one twice as large as this, you break it into those three parts. You systemize the waterfall, you systemize the slide, and you work with a landscape contractor to install the landscape component. It allows you to tackle large waterfall projects by managing the pieces, bringing it together, and making above average profit with no headache. That's the AWS model.