At
Kentucky Water Gardens
we have a passion for pond,
waterfall, and stream
construction, and the quality shows in our
craftsmanship. Our low maintenance water gardens
are natural replicas of what mother nature intended.
Prices start at $1,200 installed. Everyday we
turn the ordinary landscape into the extraordinary.
For 10 years and over 300 water gardens installed,
we pride ourselves at being master pond builders
with strict attention to detail, quality, and
function. At Aquatic Passions ponds, waterfalls,
and streams is all we do. Unlike your local
landscaper, so you know you are going to get
the quality you expect and deserve.
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Aquatic Passions charges
a consultation fee. Why no free estimates?
We will give you a lot of insightful and artistic
options to consider. Also, we spend a lot of
time with you on your consultations. Usually
1½-2 hours, and our time is valuable. This is
a professional, no
pressure consultation. If you are quite
sure you want a pond or water garden built this
season it is in your best interest to request
a consultation as every year Aquatic Passions
is booked full by the end of the summer. Our
consultation fee is only $30.00 If we do your
installation you will get this fee back off
the purchase price.
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Our Design Consultantswill
be your direct contac t from
day 1 until your project is completed. Their
extensive knowledge of aquatic plants, fish,
and
pond construction, will leave you with a
breathtaking water garden. Your friends and
neighbors jaws will drop when they see your
finished project. Your new setting will be the
ideal place to entertain your friends, and relax
from the hectic work day. They will give you
alot of creative ideas to ponder over. No matter
what your budget, or the size space we have
to work with in your yard or buisness, we have
a Water Feature for you.
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Aquatic Passions also offers
consulting.
We offer consulting for landscape contractors.
We send a consultant to your jobsite learn the
same pond building secrets that have made us
Kentucky’s #1 water garden installer. Our
fee for this service is $100 per hour with a
five hour minimum. We also do this for home
owners who want to install their own pond, without
making costly mistakes.
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Our construction schedule
for the year is almost full by the middle of
the summer. If the weather is good, we
can build up into the last week of November.
Don't miss out on this seasons building calendar.
New project spaces are limited!
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Choosing
The Right KY-Water Garden Installer |
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If you’re
serious about having a water garden
at your home or business, the best thing
you can do if you want the highest quality
is to have your water garden professionally
installed. The trick is who do you trust.
The truth of the matter is everybody
and their brother is a water garden
installer these day’s from landscapers,
to the local guy down the street that
cuts grass. The company you want, is
a company that only specializes in building
water gardens.
Don’t go
to your local landscaper, or the local
kid down the street, and here is why.
If you had to have brain surgery you
would not go to a foot surgeon. Why?
simple. The foot surgeon cannot do brain
surgery to the quality and standards
that a brain surgeon can. We are not
brain surgeons, but the same holds true
for building water gardens.
In fact 40% of our work last year was
replacing good intentioned contractors
work. Good intentions do nothing for
you the customer if the quality and
experience is not there. If you want
the best for your hard earned dollar
you have come to the right place. Every
day at Aquatic Passions we turn the
ordinary landscape into the extrodinary.
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Pond Installation
Of The Month: July |
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The Howard Residence in Athens KY. |
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This Water Garden is 25x30 Pond 3ft.
Deep |
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This Stream is 4to6ft.Wide 100ft. Long
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This is the Waterfall Coming Out of The
Aquafalls Filter
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Pond Installation
of the Month: May
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The
York Residence in Rineyville KY.
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This
Water Garden is a 11x16 Pond 3ft Deep. |
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The
Stream is 25ft long and 2-3ft wide with
three Drops. |
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This
is The Center Drop on the Stream. |
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Every
month during the season we will feature
one of our new water garden installations.
Everyday we turn the ordinary
Kentucky
landscape into the extraordinary. Imagine
what we could do to your home.
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What You
Need to Know About Certified Pond Installers |
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It seems that in today’s fast paced
service industry quality workmanship
and great customer service seems to
have fallen to the wayside. Mostbusinesses
are now more powerfully driven by how
much production or money they can make
in a given season, often times losing
tract of why they got into business
to begin with. The obvious goal of any
business is to make money but not at
the expense of poor quality or unhappy
customers.
In the water garden industry this is
becoming more of a problem every year.
The more popular this industry becomes
the more landscapers, lawn care companies,
and new business try to cash in on this
ever growing industry. The problem is
most of these guys do not specialize
in just building ponds. A lot of them
are landscapers and they do just about
anything under the sun to make a buck,
unfortunately for this industry and
trusting homeowners this can be a problem.
What a lot of these guys do because
they want to make money in this industry
is seek out a way to become creditable.
After all most of them have very limited
experience building ponds and waterfalls
and if they have no credibility they
can’t sell ponds. Unfortunately for
the consumer contractors can now buy
creditability, instead of earning it
in the field through experience and
hard work. How you ask? Simple, there
are a lot of pond product manufacturers
out there that need to move the products
they sell in order to be profitable.
What better way to do this than contractors
that are easy to brain wash.
Now pay attention because this is economics
at it’s finest. What these manufactures
do is offer a pond certification program
to any contractor who is willing to
pay for it. The criteria to become certified
is very easy as long is the contractor
is willing to pay to sit and learn the
basics of pond construction, and learnhow
to install that manufactures products,
and attend seminars. The catch is to
remain certified you can only use that
manufactures products, even if they
are not the best in the industry. If
you get caught using someone else’s
product you loose your certification.
These manufactures also make sure these
contractors have all the marketing and
sales brochures they need to close sales
hence move more products. The problem
is when they come to a customer’s house
for a consultation the pictures and
video they show the customer are not
pictures of their work but pictures
of waterfalls and ponds put together
by their manufacturer. To the customers
surprise when the job is finished the
pond they have looks nothing like what
they saw in the pictures the contractor
showed them at the consultation.
Not only is this bad it gets better,
because most of these contractors do
not just build ponds for a living and
they probably have a brick paver patio
to install or something else to do the
following day. They really never take
the time to learn or be able to teach
their customer about the basics of pond
biology, so that customer has the knowledge
they need to keep their pond from turning
into a green mess. Hence hurting our
industry and eventually hurting that
contractor’s reputation.
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Below
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This is a large biofalls filter
installed by a local aquascapes
certified installer. As you can
see this does not look very natural
with all of the plastic and liner
showing. If you look closely you
can see a four inch ledge that runs
around the whole top inside edge
of the filter this ledge is designed
for rock to be set into place to
hide all of the plastic. You can
then bring your soil up to grade
around the filter hiding everything
from view. The contractors who installed
this were either to lazy to do this
right, or they were not paying much
attention during the certification
class.
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Here
is another example of poor workmanship. |
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This is an Aquascapes skimmer installed
by a local certified landscaper.
A pond skimmer for everybody out
their reading this, houses your
pump keeping it hidden and protected
from clogging. A skimmer also acts
as a pre-filter to your main biological
filter, and skims debris from the
surface of your pond just like a
swimming pool skimmer. Notice how
high this unit sits out of the ground.
The two plumbing lines you see coming
out of the back of the unit are
the overflow line, and the pump
outlet line that feeds your filter.
Because this unit was set to high
the overflow system never had a
chance to work properly. Every time
it would rain the water would run
instead over the side of this customer’s
pond causing a whole bunch of erosion
issues, not to mention the fish
that would be flopping out in the
yard every time it would rain.
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This
is what most contractors ponds look
like in Kentucky. |
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This is typical of the type of quality
we see installed by contractors
here in this state, and throughout
the country. To most homeowners
out there who don't know any better,
this waterfall probably looks nice
compared to the plastic tubs they
see at Home Depot. But to the experienced
professional, this is amateur hour
at best. This waterfall has no filtration
system like the biofall pictures
you saw above. Instead this contractor
decided to just dig a hole where
the filter would normally go line
it with liner, and fill the hole
in with gravel. Because of this,
the gravel plugged with fish waste
very quickly, causing water flow
issues and horrible water quality
for the poor fish living in the
pond.
The pump that ran this waterfall
was just sitting in the bottom of
the pond in a bucket, where it was
an eye sore to look at. Because
this pump was not protected in a
skimmer, it clogged about every
three days. Whats funny is the contractor
that installed this waterfall was
featured in better homes and gardens
magazine. It just goes to show you
most peaple have no clue whats good
and what is not good when it comes
to ponds.
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As you can see being certified does
not make up for experience. At Aquatic
Passions we have earned our reputation
the hard way by experimenting with different
products and getting our hands dirty
learning what works best in the field.
After being in business 10 years and
building just over 300 ponds and water
gardens we have the experience and education
to give our customers the highest quality
and attention to detail they expect
and deserve. Let us put our experience
to work for you.
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Other
Great Water Garden Websites
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www.gardencom.com
Garden Community: Directory over 100
categories to choose from.Garden
Zone finder, Giant Garden Directory
100's of categories to find gardens,
specialty nurseries and garden supplies
for wholesale and retail trade.
Free garden pictures. Copyright
free and royalty free pictures. Books,
Links to Free Magazines, Articles and
more.
Richdeer3 Pond Supplies-
Stop Fishing around for Koi Pond and
Water Garden Supplies. Questions? We
have the answers.
Backyard
Pond Kits & Pondless Waterfall Kits
Eco Pond Supply has the discount pond
kits, pondless waterfall kit, or patio
pond you need to create the water garden
you’ve always dreamed of. We also offer
great prices on earth friendly water
garden supplies.
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Aquatic Passions
Quote:
In todays
corporate world most companies are geared towards
production, at Aquatic Passions we gear everthing
towards quality. We just figure if you do quality
work the production will always be there.
Wes Mccartney:
Owner
Aquatic Passions
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Pond-less
WaterFalls: Great for Everyone!
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No Fences
Needed! "Click on Picture"
Aquatic Passions
Bubbling Fountains.
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Disappearing
fountains, statues, vases, and rocks are
becoming very popular. For those who desire
water but do not have the space to construct
a pond or a Pond-Less waterfall system,
these small fountains are the perfect answer.
We have many
different
style rocks, statues, and vases to suit
everyone's taste. "Click
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Examples
Of Our Work "Click on Pictures"
KY- Water Garden Installation
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Let our
pond expertsshow
you how to bring a little piece of nature to
you and your family. A water garden is not only
peaceful and relaxing, but eliminates yard maintenance
by replacing that time consuming lawn, and cost
little more to run per month, than a night out
at the movies with your family. A pond requires
only minutes of upkeep each week, but creates
relaxation and enjoyment for hours. Don’t you
want to have this chance to escape?
Contact
us today;
you will be amazed at the possibilities.
Call Us
Today
(859) 940-1865
Lexington
- KY - Water Garden Installer
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