When faced with the prospect of selecting a channel drain for your swimming pool deck, your task can seem overwhelming. The selection process is a balancing act between deck design, functionality, aesthetics, safety and cost. It is important that the pool owner weigh the relative value that each of these features have to his project […]
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Catch Basins, Decorative Grating, Frequently Asked Questions, General, Home Improvement, Lawncare, Low Profile Adapter, NDS Products, Profile Drains, Uncategorized, Urban Drainage
Patio and Driveway Drainage (Part 1) – Low Profile Drain
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Mar
Mar
Just about any place in need of a drainage point can use catch basins (or one of their many variations) to evacuate water. Homeowners can use catch basins for driveway drainage, pools, patio point drains and landscape area drains. And, the installation techniques employed will be as diverse as the application. An interesting variation of […]
Driveways, General, Home Improvement, Lawncare, NDS Products, Patios, Pool Deck Drains, Profile Drains, Uncategorized
NDS 8″ Pro Series Channel Drain
03
Aug
Aug
Recently, a number of people contacted us regarding the NDS 8 inch Pro Series Channel Drain. In a previous article, the 8” Pro Series was mentioned, though not in any great detail. In this article, I’ll elaborate on the channel and grating features this popular channel drain system. The Pro Series by NDS The Pro […]
Frequently Asked Questions, General, Home Improvement, Lawncare, NDS Products, Patios, Pool Deck Drains, Profile Drains, Stegmeier, Style, Uncategorized
Extruded Channel Drains (Part 2)
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Jun
Jun
Last entry discussed differences and commonality between extruded channel drains manufactured by NDS and Stegmeier. I wanted to continue along this path and discuss two other very similar extruded products — NDS’ Spee-D Channel and Stegmeier’s Flowmaster. The Flowmaster is marketed as a professional-grade channel drain for swimming pool decks. The Spee-D Channel is sold […]
Frequently Asked Questions, General, Home Improvement, NDS Products, Patios, Pool Deck Drains, Profile Drains, Stegmeier, Style, Uncategorized
Extruded Channel Drains (Part 1)
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Apr
Apr
Last month, I wrote an article about a plastic channel drain product marketed by NDS under the “Pro Series” brand. This neutral channel product line is manufactured by injection molding. While injection molding is great for making intricate shapes, manufacturing costs associated with injection molding drive product costs up. There are design and mold costs […]
General, Home Improvement, Lawncare, NDS Products, Pool Deck Drains, Profile Drains, Uncategorized
NDS Pro Series Channel Drains
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Mar
Mar
NDS offers a line of channel drain systems called the “Pro Series”. These channels are injected, molded from polyvinyl chloride, and have a neutral slope (no slope). They come in a variety of widths (3”, 5”, 8” and 12”). According to NDS literature asterisk notes, this product is technology licensed from the Italian trench drain […]
Frequently Asked Questions, General, Home Improvement, Style, Uncategorized
Common Plastic Terminology for Trench Drains
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Mar
Mar
It’s time to discuss some plastic terminology! Disclaimer: I am not an organic chemist or a plastics engineer. I’m gathering this information from other sources and I may not be explaining it as accurately as I need to. Polyolefin — is a polymer produced from a simple olefin or alkene as a monomer. For example, […]
Frequently Asked Questions, General, Home Improvement, Lawncare, NDS Products, Patios, Pool Deck Drains, Style, Uncategorized
Plastic Trench Drain vs. Residential Trench Drain
27
Feb
Feb
Are most residential drainage projects solved by plastic trench drain? It’s starting to look that way. As society’s attention to stormwater runoff issues grows, so does our need to learn about water control products such as trench drains. Concrete and fiberglass trench drains dominated the commercial market for years. Polymer concrete or fiberglass-based drainage systems […]
Decorative Grating, Frequently Asked Questions, General, Home Improvement, Lawncare, NDS Products, Patios, Pool Deck Drains, Style, Uncategorized
Pro’s and Con’s of Plastic Trench Drain
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Feb
Feb
When I started my career with trench drain, I didn’t know the critical questions that determine whether a plastic trench drain is appropriate in a drainage project. At the time, I handled a polymer concrete product line. Polymer concrete is a mixture of an inert material (such as silica sand) and a two-part polyester resin […]