Roofs take quite a beating. Fully faced toward the sky, they catch the brunt of weather's worst. They have to be able to take a licking and keep from leaking-for a long time. They must be weathertight, secure, durable, attractive and elastic enough to withstand severe temperature shifts without cracking.

You're now in the process of actually constructing your water garden. Here are some helpful tips about building water gardens that will keep everyone satisfied for many years to come.

A permanent darkroom should ideally have a size of approximately 75 to 100 square feet or more. One side of the darkroom should be your sink or "wet" area. This is where you will do all of your processing, both for film and prints. The "wet" area should include adequate space to arrange your processing trays.

Certainly you have sat or stood at someone's basement or family room bar and wondered about having one for yourself. As you might imagine, I have built many bars over the years for customers. In fact I remodeled real bars in drinking establishments! Finally, I have one of my own!

Every waterfront property has some degree of surface and groundwater flow. Although you will never be able to control these water flows entirely, you can do your best to manage them so they are not contributing to accelerated erosion and landsliding along your waterfront.

To protect water quality during construction, you will need a two fold strategy. First, keep clean water clean (ie. by stopping it from running through your construction site) and second, keep any water that does become dirty from entering clean water (for example, flowing downhill straight towards the nearest waterbody).

Sometimes when we buy waterfront property with a natural shoreline, we think that we need to put in a retaining wall or bulkhead to reinforce and protect the shoreline from eroding in the future. Unfortunately, this usually helps create the very problem that we fear!

Clearing not only could damage water quality – you could lose topsoil to the water. When bare ground is covered with plants, including the shoreline buffer zone, it helps reduce damage and erosion caused by surface runoff.

If you have been water skiing then you have no doubt been entertained by or been the source of entertainment for others while you struggled. It doesn’t matter whether you are learning to get up on combo ski, a slalom ski, wakeboard, kneeboard, kid’s skis, or even barefooting. The bottom line is what you knew had to be true in your gut.

There are currently two types of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) tools: those which facilitate design but do not automate it and those which partially or fully automate the design process.