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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When you need wisdom and advice.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Seek out a guru.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
When you need wisdom and advice about remodeling and design.
Lock on and listen right now to Nick the Construction Guru.
Here is award winning remodeling expert Nick Kerzner.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
If you just talk eleven thirty, Nick the Construction Guru.
I have a returning guest and a dear friend of mine,
mister Dean Papto, the pond Father from Aquatica Ponds. Most
of you have probably heard Dean and I on the radio.
I'm always excited because I love water features, man, I
really do.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And as you know, I'm working on my third one now.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's kind of addicting, right Nick.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, you know what it is, Dean. It's it's a
piece of the land. It's kind of like.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
If you were a purveyor of the trees.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Okay, you get a lot, You look at the lot
and you say, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What does it need?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
All say, well, trees and burms and things like that.
But once you have a water feature, you realize that
something's missing if you didn't have it right.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, I mean, it's like exactly, you know. And by
the way, thanks for having me today on this Sunday
morning and it's you know, we have a good time.
But well, yeah, water features, ponds, waterfalls, backyard living, all
that stuff. You know, that's what we do at Aquatica
and yeah, do it. Well, we try. It's our twenty
fifty year in business. And you're on your third water feature.
(01:32):
You know, once you have a water feature of waterscape,
you start thinking about what else can I do and
what's best, you know, and what's next and how can
I make it even better and better and better? And
that's part of the journey of owning one of these.
It's just so the sound, the movement, the fun, the
enjoyment of coming home at night and seeing that water feature,
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that pond, feeding the fish, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, Dean, I think, what's happened at least what
excuse me for a minute. What's been happening with me?
Is I set it up in you know, you find
a focal point and yeah, the Dean's giving me the
thumbs up that the microphones are actually thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're like, you're you're really you're getting good at this.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, So now that you've disrupted my chain of thought here, No,
but what I was going to say, is you know
you put a water feature. My first water feature was
put in in an area in my yard that was
kind of lost between the house and the garage. It
was just kind of a, you know, a weird area,
and that changed that area to a really cool area.
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But then when you're sitting somewhere else, you're thinking, Okay,
I can't see my water feature from here, So what's
happening to me is exactly what you said was going
to happen when we talked about the Hof.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
One of your good customers.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You start in one area and now you're sitting on
a part of the deck and you can't see it,
so you either want to expand that water feature or
add another one, right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You know, it's just such a cool evolution over the years.
We have customers from twenty five years ago, twenty years ago,
ten years ago, and it's it's just an ongoing relationship
of you know, ponds and water gardens and water features,
and you just you really do get, you know, such
inspiration from them that they become fun and kind of
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a really neat hobby for people to get into and
just an enjoyable, enjoyable part of your outdoor living. Experience,
of course.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And you know, it brings with it a lot of
additional things. Like my wife loves dragonflies. She has a
tattoo of a dragonflyer. That's how much she loves dragon flies.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't I can't tell you where it is. Deane's an.
It's on her ankle.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But anyways, going to ask.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know, that's one of the things that's really cool
is you'll have the dragonflies flying around there. Oh yeah,
I do get I do get some birds up north.
They love to fool around in the water.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh yeah, it's definitely for bird attraction. Songbird attraction. Dragonflies
are a great, you know, addition to a landscape. They
take care of a lot of the mosquitoes and bugs
and things like that. They're they're a predator to to
the bad bugs. I guess you could say these water features.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
There are no bad bugs. Then they're just misunderstood.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That's true, that's very true. But water features don't breed mosquitoes,
or they're not something where you're gonna have mosquitos. Some
people have the misconception that you know you're gonna have
if you bring water into the backyard. Oh my gosh,
I'm gonna have all these mosquitos. These type of features
can't do that with the filtration and the way they're designed,
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the way the fish, you know, the fish eat the
mosquito larvae. The dragonflies eat the mosquitoes. The skimmer system
that we have on these ponds, you know, destroys mosquito larvae.
So they're they're not gonna be a mosquito, you know,
stag can that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's very true. That is probably the one area where
I don't have a lot of mosquitoes up north. And
you know, I don't know what. I think part of
the movement of the water disturbs them too. I don't
know if it does or not.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
And even this this year, I've noticed that the mosquitoes
are kind of not an issue yet really well, even
in mid mid junior. Usually we have mosquitos and things
like that. But I don't know something's going on us here.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I got a blood transfusion up north last weekend.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Did you really? Oh yeah, yeah, oh man, But no,
they're just they're great. And you know, we at Aquatica,
we do service, We do maintenance, we do installations, we
do renovations and remodels of ponds and waterfalls, and we
have our store.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So no, I was gonna just I was gonna tell
you this. And I know you don't know this, but
my cabinet guy is right within walking distance of your
your showroom.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So when we go there with a client to start
doing the selection on their cabinets, I always mention Aquatic
and I say, hey, folks, because it's usually like four
thirty five, Brian gets done, We get done with everything.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know, Brian over at br great guy. He is
a good guy.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And I have sent two or three and you're closed
during these times. But I send these people over there,
and it's funny because like three of them have said,
you know what, we really enjoyed it. I think we're
going to call that guy. So I got a guy
in Fort Atkinson. Yes, you got a guy in Caledonia
that we just talked to. Yes, that was referred and
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and you know, so it's funny because I've been sending
a lot of people over to your store. But here's
the thing. They call me the next day, and you know,
normally people will come over and look at it. They
don't say anything about stuff. They always say, oh that
was really cool, thanks for sending us over there and
your features are on flat parking lot. Yeah, so I
mean it's you got to stop by in Wales and
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take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's really really cool.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, we have a cool little showroom there and you
can see different bubbling features Koi ponds, waterfalls, pollus waterfalls
come into the store and you know, we have idea
books and things like that for you to look at
and once you see them, even at the home shows.
That's why we do the home shows is because when
you see these water features and water gardens, it's like,
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oh my gosh, I could have this in my own yard,
on my own landscape. I never realized that, And it's
kind of that cheery on the Sunday and a landscape.
You know, that water element is such a cool part
of a landscape and it really kind of makes it
come alive.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
One of the reasons, and I say this a lot
on the show, that we are always close to each
other at the shows is because you bring a crowd
to your displays and that's you know, me being the
marketing genius that I am, I want to be around
the crowds with my display.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
We're a good team, so we actually feed off of you. Well,
thank you, and we and we appreciate your you as
a neighbor at the shows. That's not we have too
much fun.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We do.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But but the thing is, I watch people walk around
and look and then walk around two or three times,
you know, and then they're they're taking pictures and they're
talking about and then of course you always have it
well staffed, so you know, Sean and all the guys
are always out there talking to everybody.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We have a great team.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, but I you know, the average the average person
that comes by my booth will stay probably maybe fifteen minutes. Okay,
they have some questions they want to get answered. But
I have seen people literally walk around your display two
or three times, sit on the wall, oh yeah, and
take pictures with their family.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
A lot of people are taking pictures, you know, with
their cameras now with the pond and the background and
things like that. It's really kind of a neat scene
that they're creating for their for their own memories and
things like that. And these water features and water scapes,
you know, people do them as memorials to a lot.
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They do them, you know, to to kind of attract
the grand kids to their home, so the grandkids want
to come over and catch the frogs or feed the fish.
And there's so many different reasons and and ways to
enjoy a waterscape and a waterfall pond in your backyard.
And that's that's what people are attracted to. That just
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photographs and songbirds and you just you name it. It's it's
going to be something that really enhances your life.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
One of the one of the jobs that I know
you guys are working on right now is I have
a customer in Brookfield. Matt.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm sure he's listening. He always listens, but.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
He has taken it's a it's a really cool house
in Brookfield on a really cool lot. It's a smaller house,
it's it's split field stone, it's it's set in a
mid century modern genre, if you will. He's very particular
about keeping that. And we started talking about because he
comes to the shows, and we started talking about he's
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got a terrain, a lot of hills in Brookfield. It's
not your typical Brookfield lots.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He's got a canopy.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
We do a lot in Brookfield, Yeah, I know you do.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But this is this is one of those This is
like being up north on his lot. I don't know
if you've been there yet. Austin's been there, but he's
got all these maple trees and he's got this canopy
over his yard, so the grass doesn't really grow very well. Sure,
and they're planning out a really cool double lake waterfall
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at Matt's house and he's really excited about it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And you know, I think part of.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That enthusiasm is and you know this like with me,
I look at a fountain at Steins or something.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, they're cool, but whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
But when you get a professionally done water feature where
it looks like it's been there, like you you're a
lot one of the things I was going to say too,
and I'm kind of rambling here, but the thoughts are
coming so fast. When you walk into a Quatica showroom
from the front door looking out the back patio door
that we replaced for you, the back patio.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Door, Yeah, yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
By the way, that is one of the coolest things
because if you have an area, and this is what
I think people should think about, if you have an
area that's difficult to mow, if you have an area
that is that part of the yard where like I
can't really use it for anything. It's just that's a
perfect place for a water feature, because that's if the
water feature was natural, that would be a place you
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couldn't use.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It'd be just a focal point right right.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You know, next to next to a stairway down a
hillside apps you know, hugging a patio or a deck
where you're let's say you're in the kitchen or in
the living room looking out into the backyard. It's just
something that you want to be able to view, you know,
from really anywhere in your in your backyard. So if
you're if you're sitting on the couch, maybe you can
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see the koy pond, or if you're at the kitchen
table and you have the window open, you can hear
the waterfall running. Things like that, you know, and we
really try to pay attention to that, and a lot
of people they they really they don't realize the value
of putting one of these waterscapes in Dean.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We're gonna take a short break when we come back.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I gotta I gotta tell you a story about one
of your water features that I don't think you know.
And you're gonna laugh. No, it's it's a great story.
But we will talk about that when we come back
from break.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Okay, never know what's going on with the guru here,
You never do.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You never know what medication he's on a Sunday. But
we will return after these messages on news Talk eleven
thirty WISN Talk eleven thirty w I s N. Returning
from break, Nick the construction grew.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
If you're thinking about a project, I always say you
should get few opinions. Make one of those hours. We'd
love to come out and talk to you about a
new rec room, a new outdoor, doing a lot of
outdoor kitchen areas right too, and that and that. Yeah,
that's been going great. People outside, yeah they do, and
you know more people are staying home.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, so I.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Have a gentleman out in uh Fred. If you're listening,
waving to you doing an outdoor, a beautiful house out
and eagle.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well you do beautiful work.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Nick, Thank you. You guys do great work. And we
enjoy our work.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah, you know, like you do.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But give us a call at two six two. You
can catch us on the web on talk up on
news Talk late. Here we are he's losing it again.
On at kurznerink dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You know, Dean, I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Excited to tell a story before break that you don't know.
But up at my cabin up North, I wanted water features.
It's just a natural thing. And you set me up,
which is interesting because I will say this, Dean set
me up at the store, explain to me how to
do this, and my installation went flawless.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
There's a lot of information at that store for even
do it yourselfers or people who want to renovate their ponds. Yeah,
a lot of great equipment. You had everything there. Everything
I needed.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, everything we have there is custom We order it,
you know, specifically for the customer. It's it's one of
a kind.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And you know, I know we're on a radio. I
know you're my buddy and all that. But the prices
are really good, they really are. You know, you're fairly
priced on stuff. So I put this in up North.
I had this ugly area right next to the cabin
where the septic tanks were.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
There's two septic lids. Okay, that's where my bubbling rock is.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And so when the septic I comes to empty, I
literally have to move some drift wood and some stone
and stuff. But that area was ugly and even my
wife said, what are we going to do with that?
It's like the focal point now where the septic tank
covers are is the focal point in my yard because
it's got these three basalt columns bubbling, it's got all
the cool drift what I got from you, it's very
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very cool. So that's why I'm saying. I know that
a lot of people will get a feature and they
picture this big pond or big waterfall, but there are
the those areas in the yard that are lost. Oh yeah,
and that's a great place to put a water feature
because naturally, if it was a natural water feature, that
area would be.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Kind of lost.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It would be dedicated to that thing because you can't
move it, and that's what makes it feel so natural.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Well, and we're by nature creative at Aquatica. Our job
is to problem solve a certain area or be creative
with a certain area. We have to Every single one
of our water features is custom. Nothing is cookie cutter
and every property is different. So very creative minds at
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Aquatica are team are artists that build your feature, your
water feature. They're They're all super creative, super talented staff
we have at Aquatica. A lot of them have been
with us decades.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And the thing I also love is, you know, I
tell it a lot about our virtual rendering process where
you can take we take an area and we can
show you in photograph quality what.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It's going to look like when it's done.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh yeah, I've seen some of your designs where I've
worked with you on some of your designs where the
backyard is just a flat scape and you create this
beautiful area ponds and waterfalls and patios and landscape you
guys kind of One of the other things I like
is you don't just put the water feature, and you
also put in the landscaping that you'll be working with
partners on.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Oh yeah. We have lots of landscape partners in the community.
Probably seventy eighty percent of the landscape companies, the professional
companies out there. We work with them and we partner
with them on their water features and we team up
with their team and it's a it's a great fit
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because all we do is water. We're not a landscape contractor.
We don't do patios and walls and things like that.
We leave that to the experts we do you the water.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
What I'm saying is you create the whole design so
that the patios will be in there, you'll be able
to see it all, and then you work with.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Trade partners to do those different things.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
A lot of times, the design it's kind of all
We'll have a design brought to us and then we'll
plug in the water scape part of it, you know,
and then we make it come to life. So that's
that's a real common way to do it. If you
have a landscape plan, bring it to us, we can
incorporate a water feature right into that, you know, during
the process. So during the landscape process, if you're redoing
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your backyard, get us involved with your landscape contractor if
you have an existing landscape, have us come over take
a look at where a water feature would fit, where
a waterscape would would really nestle in, you know, somewhere
nice that you can see it and enjoy it. So
whether it's a mature landscape, an older landscape, or a
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brand new landscape, just get us involved.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So just so people understand, I think that a lot
of times, if it's a new listener, they hear this
and they think, oh, they're talking about one of those
fountains with the little guyping or the little umbrella or whatever.
Make no mistake, you guys spend a lot of time
in nature. As a matter of fact, I know you
take trips with your guys and go and look at
natural landscapes to duplicate what's going on there. So we're
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not talking about fountains and things like that. We're really
talking about if you looked at it. And I will
tell you it's funny because I went we went to
Culver's the other day and I went there with a
buddy of mine and your bubbling rock with oh sure, sure,
and you know what the I love the bubbling rock
and all that. But you would not know if you
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didn't know, because your sign's.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Right there that that's a feature.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
It looks like you build something on an area that
has a fault where water's coming up.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Like a like a bubbling spring exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And it's the coolest thing. And so that's why I
say give your website out because sometimes you know, people
are sitting and looking at their iPads while we're doing this.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, you definitely want to check us out at Aquaticaponds
dot com. Aquatica Ponds dot com or Aquatica with Wisconsin
is our Facebook page.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And that's cool too, because you guys have live videos
and drawing stuff and all kinds of stuff going on there.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Absolutely, we have videos of our home show displays and
all sorts of stuff. You know, we're constantly adding to it.
We're on YouTube under Aquatica Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You know, when I talk to people about when we're
doing tech projects and the thing, I'll bring up Aquatica
and they'll go on the website. One of the things
that you guys have to get over with your website
is that when you look at this, it looks extremely
and I pause, that means emphasis, okay, extremely expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I'm on the edge of my chair here.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well it does.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You look at it and people all say the same thing.
They go, oh, no, we won't be able to afford that.
But strangely enough, there's more surprises out there when you
guys get done, because it's not crazy expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
No, I mean, we've been doing this twenty five years.
We're part of the landscape commune. It's no different than
installing or you know, purchasing a hot tub or a
deck or a patio or outdoor lighting or anything. It's
another way to enhance your backyard life lifestyle, you know,
And there are affordable We wouldn't be around if they weren't.
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So we work with our customers' budgets, with their vision
and we really try to you know, hit a home run.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You talk about and now decks are much better. But
you know, I have a cedar deck and I'm constantly
replacing boards in it now. It's been it's over twenty
five years. It's and I'm too cheap to put composite
on it. It's just like I said, I'm the second cheapest,
kind of ruled.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
My father's a first, but I still have a wood deck. Yeah.
But here's the thing, Dean.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Another thing with the water features, and I'm a testament
to this. I have one that's over I think ten
years old, and another one that's probably four or five
years old. There's no maintenance. You don't have to do.
You know what I do with my two bubbling rocks.
I blow the leave off, sure, and then you plug
them in.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We teach people to do, you know, ten minutes a
week or less of maintenance. Every water feature we try
to design is about ten minutes or less a week
of maintenance. That's kind of our our start to a
swimming pool. Compare that to a deck, sure, a wood deck,
I mean, you know, I don't know. I think if
you have a nice wood deck, you're going to want
it to look good. So you're constantly touching up. You're
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constantly going with a bubbling rocket's almost or a water
feature or a pondless waterfall, a stream.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
It grows, it's part of a living and breathing yes, yeah,
and so it does change over the years because there's
different plant.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, there's different rainfall patterns, there's different sunlight patterns, all
sorts of at different times a year. So the pond
is always evolving. But maintenance wise, we want to keep
that maintenance to about ten minutes or less a week.
You add some treatments to the water, you check your filtration.
That's about it. If you want to. If you want
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to count feeding the fish as maintenance, you sometimes, you know,
two three times a week, maybe you're gonna throw in
a little food for the fish. You don't have to
you don't have to feed them at all. They find
plenty of food nature, Oh yeah, they find plenty of
food right in the pond feeding fish is more for
us than the grandkids and things like that as a hobby.
But you really don't have to do much maintenance even
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with the fish. In the winter, the fish stay in
the pond. You have a small hole in the ice
for gas exchange, little fountain aerator maybe in the pond
for aeration in the winter. That's it. The fish they
kind of hibernate it in the winter in the pond.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You guys, you know, you're talking about a lot of stuff,
and I'm sure people are trying to keep up with this,
but I think you just finished another seminar where it's
a class where you teach people.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, we have a spring startup seminar, we have a
fall shut down seminar at the store where we teach people,
and then just yesterday, just this past Saturday here we
call it the Ultimate Pond Seminar where we kind of
cover everything else aquatic plan that's lighting, fish enhancements, drift bubbles.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
We do.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
We do and it's all free.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
We we have people come in and we try to
teach them and show them the latest trends and water
features and things like that and the latest products. So
we had a really fun time yesterday, and uh, you know,
thanks for everybody for coming out and seeing us at Aquatica.
If you want to know more about, you know, the lifestyle,
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like I like to say, it's you know everybody's using
that because a lot of people, Well that's what I'm saying.
If you want to know more about that hobby or
that lifestyle or that enhancement you can do to your landscape,
certainly call Aquatica at two six two nine six eight
five five four zero. Look us up at Aquatica ponds
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dot com. Yeah, come and see us right at the store.
We're open nine to five Wednesday through Friday, and then
on Saturday we're open nine to one.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And you're you always have somebody in the store. If
I know, a lot of people try and do this themselves,
and you're okay with that, and you'll even help with it.
But you know, the pond failures that I've seen in
my lifetime have typically been people not knowing just the
little tweaks that you guys teach.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Well, it's an art and when people try to do
it themselves, it's very admirable and we certainly help them.
But if you want a professional looking piece of artwork
in your backyard. That's what you're getting.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Our guys are artists, are forming our artists, and they
have the eye. They've been doing this a very long time.
They know how to get the look and to make
these look very natural, very professional. Beautiful waterfalls and streams
and creeks and ponds in your backyard. That's what we do.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know, a lot of people will put yard sculptures out,
which I think are really cool. But with a feature,
you're getting the sculpture, you're getting the sound, you're getting
the lighting, you're getting all of it. And then you're
having interaction with nature and people.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
If you if you like to entertain people come over
and you have a party in the backyard and in
the background you hear this babbling brook, you know, this waterfall.
It's like where did that come from? You know? And
it's just such a.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Cool I got a friend when he comes over, well
maybe that'll drown him out. Then, Dean, let's give out
your information if someone's u if you even have an
inkling or or you're getting ready to do any kind
of landscaping, get these guys involved consultations free right.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yeah, and I did want to mention too, like if
we're getting a lot of customers that have some road
noise and traffic and these these ponds and waterfalls are
great to, you know, help for the buffer that noise.
So our our website is Aquaticaponds dot com and our
Facebook is a Quatica, Wisconsin and you can call the
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store two six two nine six eight five five four zero.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Dean, thanks for spending a Sunday with the Guru again.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
It's always a pleasure. Again, folks, if.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You're thinking about anything any kind of out there, more
people are staying home now, so I know we are.
We we've kind of set up our yard for entertainment.
This is a great addition to that. So if you're
thinking about that, give Dina call am. I am not
only a good friend and an advocate, but I'm also
a customer of Aquatica. So we will return again next
week on News Talk eleven thirty WISN
When you need wisdom and advice.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
When you need wisdom and advice about remodeling and design.
Lock on and listen right now to Nick the Construction Guru.
Here is award winning remodeling expert Nick Kerzner.
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If you just talk eleven thirty, Nick the Construction Guru.
I have a returning guest and a dear friend of mine,
mister Dean Papto, the pond Father from Aquatica Ponds. Most
of you have probably heard Dean and I on the radio.
I'm always excited because I love water features, man, I
really do.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And as you know, I'm working on my third one now.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's kind of addicting, right Nick.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, you know what it is, Dean. It's it's a
piece of the land. It's kind of like.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
If you were a purveyor of the trees.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Okay, you get a lot, You look at the lot
and you say, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What does it need?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
All say, well, trees and burms and things like that.
But once you have a water feature, you realize that
something's missing if you didn't have it right.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, I mean, it's like exactly, you know. And by
the way, thanks for having me today on this Sunday
morning and it's you know, we have a good time.
But well, yeah, water features, ponds, waterfalls, backyard living, all
that stuff. You know, that's what we do at Aquatica
and yeah, do it. Well, we try. It's our twenty
fifty year in business. And you're on your third water feature.
(01:32):
You know, once you have a water feature of waterscape,
you start thinking about what else can I do and
what's best, you know, and what's next and how can
I make it even better and better and better? And
that's part of the journey of owning one of these.
It's just so the sound, the movement, the fun, the
enjoyment of coming home at night and seeing that water feature,
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that pond, feeding the fish, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, Dean, I think, what's happened at least what
excuse me for a minute. What's been happening with me?
Is I set it up in you know, you find
a focal point and yeah, the Dean's giving me the
thumbs up that the microphones are actually thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're like, you're you're really you're getting good at this.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, So now that you've disrupted my chain of thought here, No,
but what I was going to say, is you know
you put a water feature. My first water feature was
put in in an area in my yard that was
kind of lost between the house and the garage. It
was just kind of a, you know, a weird area,
and that changed that area to a really cool area.
(02:37):
But then when you're sitting somewhere else, you're thinking, Okay,
I can't see my water feature from here, So what's
happening to me is exactly what you said was going
to happen when we talked about the Hof.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
One of your good customers.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You start in one area and now you're sitting on
a part of the deck and you can't see it,
so you either want to expand that water feature or
add another one, right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You know, it's just such a cool evolution over the years.
We have customers from twenty five years ago, twenty years ago,
ten years ago, and it's it's just an ongoing relationship
of you know, ponds and water gardens and water features,
and you just you really do get, you know, such
inspiration from them that they become fun and kind of
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a really neat hobby for people to get into and
just an enjoyable, enjoyable part of your outdoor living. Experience,
of course.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And you know, it brings with it a lot of
additional things. Like my wife loves dragonflies. She has a
tattoo of a dragonflyer. That's how much she loves dragon flies.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't I can't tell you where it is. Deane's an.
It's on her ankle.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But anyways, going to ask.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know, that's one of the things that's really cool
is you'll have the dragonflies flying around there. Oh yeah,
I do get I do get some birds up north.
They love to fool around in the water.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh yeah, it's definitely for bird attraction. Songbird attraction. Dragonflies
are a great, you know, addition to a landscape. They
take care of a lot of the mosquitoes and bugs
and things like that. They're they're a predator to to
the bad bugs. I guess you could say these water features.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
There are no bad bugs. Then they're just misunderstood.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That's true, that's very true. But water features don't breed mosquitoes,
or they're not something where you're gonna have mosquitos. Some
people have the misconception that you know you're gonna have
if you bring water into the backyard. Oh my gosh,
I'm gonna have all these mosquitos. These type of features
can't do that with the filtration and the way they're designed,
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the way the fish, you know, the fish eat the
mosquito larvae. The dragonflies eat the mosquitoes. The skimmer system
that we have on these ponds, you know, destroys mosquito larvae.
So they're they're not gonna be a mosquito, you know,
stag can that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's very true. That is probably the one area where
I don't have a lot of mosquitoes up north. And
you know, I don't know what. I think part of
the movement of the water disturbs them too. I don't
know if it does or not.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
And even this this year, I've noticed that the mosquitoes
are kind of not an issue yet really well, even
in mid mid junior. Usually we have mosquitos and things
like that. But I don't know something's going on us here.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I got a blood transfusion up north last weekend.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Did you really? Oh yeah, yeah, oh man, But no,
they're just they're great. And you know, we at Aquatica,
we do service, We do maintenance, we do installations, we
do renovations and remodels of ponds and waterfalls, and we
have our store.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So no, I was gonna just I was gonna tell
you this. And I know you don't know this, but
my cabinet guy is right within walking distance of your
your showroom.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So when we go there with a client to start
doing the selection on their cabinets, I always mention Aquatic
and I say, hey, folks, because it's usually like four
thirty five, Brian gets done, We get done with everything.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know, Brian over at br great guy. He is
a good guy.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And I have sent two or three and you're closed
during these times. But I send these people over there,
and it's funny because like three of them have said,
you know what, we really enjoyed it. I think we're
going to call that guy. So I got a guy
in Fort Atkinson. Yes, you got a guy in Caledonia
that we just talked to. Yes, that was referred and
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and you know, so it's funny because I've been sending
a lot of people over to your store. But here's
the thing. They call me the next day, and you know,
normally people will come over and look at it. They
don't say anything about stuff. They always say, oh that
was really cool, thanks for sending us over there and
your features are on flat parking lot. Yeah, so I
mean it's you got to stop by in Wales and
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take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's really really cool.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, we have a cool little showroom there and you
can see different bubbling features Koi ponds, waterfalls, pollus waterfalls
come into the store and you know, we have idea
books and things like that for you to look at
and once you see them, even at the home shows.
That's why we do the home shows is because when
you see these water features and water gardens, it's like,
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oh my gosh, I could have this in my own yard,
on my own landscape. I never realized that, And it's
kind of that cheery on the Sunday and a landscape.
You know, that water element is such a cool part
of a landscape and it really kind of makes it
come alive.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
One of the reasons, and I say this a lot
on the show, that we are always close to each
other at the shows is because you bring a crowd
to your displays and that's you know, me being the
marketing genius that I am, I want to be around
the crowds with my display.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
We're a good team, so we actually feed off of you. Well,
thank you, and we and we appreciate your you as
a neighbor at the shows. That's not we have too
much fun.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We do.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But but the thing is, I watch people walk around
and look and then walk around two or three times,
you know, and then they're they're taking pictures and they're
talking about and then of course you always have it
well staffed, so you know, Sean and all the guys
are always out there talking to everybody.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We have a great team.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, but I you know, the average the average person
that comes by my booth will stay probably maybe fifteen minutes. Okay,
they have some questions they want to get answered. But
I have seen people literally walk around your display two
or three times, sit on the wall, oh yeah, and
take pictures with their family.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
A lot of people are taking pictures, you know, with
their cameras now with the pond and the background and
things like that. It's really kind of a neat scene
that they're creating for their for their own memories and
things like that. And these water features and water scapes,
you know, people do them as memorials to a lot.
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They do them, you know, to to kind of attract
the grand kids to their home, so the grandkids want
to come over and catch the frogs or feed the fish.
And there's so many different reasons and and ways to
enjoy a waterscape and a waterfall pond in your backyard.
And that's that's what people are attracted to. That just
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photographs and songbirds and you just you name it. It's it's
going to be something that really enhances your life.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
One of the one of the jobs that I know
you guys are working on right now is I have
a customer in Brookfield. Matt.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm sure he's listening. He always listens, but.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
He has taken it's a it's a really cool house
in Brookfield on a really cool lot. It's a smaller house,
it's it's split field stone, it's it's set in a
mid century modern genre, if you will. He's very particular
about keeping that. And we started talking about because he
comes to the shows, and we started talking about he's
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got a terrain, a lot of hills in Brookfield. It's
not your typical Brookfield lots.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He's got a canopy.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
We do a lot in Brookfield, Yeah, I know you do.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But this is this is one of those This is
like being up north on his lot. I don't know
if you've been there yet. Austin's been there, but he's
got all these maple trees and he's got this canopy
over his yard, so the grass doesn't really grow very well. Sure,
and they're planning out a really cool double lake waterfall
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at Matt's house and he's really excited about it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And you know, I think part of.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That enthusiasm is and you know this like with me,
I look at a fountain at Steins or something.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, they're cool, but whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
But when you get a professionally done water feature where
it looks like it's been there, like you you're a
lot one of the things I was going to say too,
and I'm kind of rambling here, but the thoughts are
coming so fast. When you walk into a Quatica showroom
from the front door looking out the back patio door
that we replaced for you, the back patio.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Door, Yeah, yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
By the way, that is one of the coolest things
because if you have an area, and this is what
I think people should think about, if you have an
area that's difficult to mow, if you have an area
that is that part of the yard where like I
can't really use it for anything. It's just that's a
perfect place for a water feature, because that's if the
water feature was natural, that would be a place you
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couldn't use.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It'd be just a focal point right right.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You know, next to next to a stairway down a
hillside apps you know, hugging a patio or a deck
where you're let's say you're in the kitchen or in
the living room looking out into the backyard. It's just
something that you want to be able to view, you know,
from really anywhere in your in your backyard. So if
you're if you're sitting on the couch, maybe you can
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see the koy pond, or if you're at the kitchen
table and you have the window open, you can hear
the waterfall running. Things like that, you know, and we
really try to pay attention to that, and a lot
of people they they really they don't realize the value
of putting one of these waterscapes in Dean.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We're gonna take a short break when we come back.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I gotta I gotta tell you a story about one
of your water features that I don't think you know.
And you're gonna laugh. No, it's it's a great story.
But we will talk about that when we come back
from break.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Okay, never know what's going on with the guru here,
You never do.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You never know what medication he's on a Sunday. But
we will return after these messages on news Talk eleven
thirty WISN Talk eleven thirty w I s N. Returning
from break, Nick the construction grew.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
If you're thinking about a project, I always say you
should get few opinions. Make one of those hours. We'd
love to come out and talk to you about a
new rec room, a new outdoor, doing a lot of
outdoor kitchen areas right too, and that and that. Yeah,
that's been going great. People outside, yeah they do, and
you know more people are staying home.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, so I.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Have a gentleman out in uh Fred. If you're listening,
waving to you doing an outdoor, a beautiful house out
and eagle.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well you do beautiful work.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Nick, Thank you. You guys do great work. And we
enjoy our work.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah, you know, like you do.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But give us a call at two six two. You
can catch us on the web on talk up on
news Talk late. Here we are he's losing it again.
On at kurznerink dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You know, Dean, I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Excited to tell a story before break that you don't know.
But up at my cabin up North, I wanted water features.
It's just a natural thing. And you set me up,
which is interesting because I will say this, Dean set
me up at the store, explain to me how to
do this, and my installation went flawless.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
There's a lot of information at that store for even
do it yourselfers or people who want to renovate their ponds. Yeah,
a lot of great equipment. You had everything there. Everything
I needed.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, everything we have there is custom We order it,
you know, specifically for the customer. It's it's one of
a kind.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And you know, I know we're on a radio. I
know you're my buddy and all that. But the prices
are really good, they really are. You know, you're fairly
priced on stuff. So I put this in up North.
I had this ugly area right next to the cabin
where the septic tanks were.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
There's two septic lids. Okay, that's where my bubbling rock is.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And so when the septic I comes to empty, I
literally have to move some drift wood and some stone
and stuff. But that area was ugly and even my
wife said, what are we going to do with that?
It's like the focal point now where the septic tank
covers are is the focal point in my yard because
it's got these three basalt columns bubbling, it's got all
the cool drift what I got from you, it's very
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very cool. So that's why I'm saying. I know that
a lot of people will get a feature and they
picture this big pond or big waterfall, but there are
the those areas in the yard that are lost. Oh yeah,
and that's a great place to put a water feature
because naturally, if it was a natural water feature, that
area would be.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Kind of lost.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It would be dedicated to that thing because you can't
move it, and that's what makes it feel so natural.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Well, and we're by nature creative at Aquatica. Our job
is to problem solve a certain area or be creative
with a certain area. We have to Every single one
of our water features is custom. Nothing is cookie cutter
and every property is different. So very creative minds at
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Aquatica are team are artists that build your feature, your
water feature. They're They're all super creative, super talented staff
we have at Aquatica. A lot of them have been
with us decades.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And the thing I also love is, you know, I
tell it a lot about our virtual rendering process where
you can take we take an area and we can
show you in photograph quality what.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It's going to look like when it's done.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh yeah, I've seen some of your designs where I've
worked with you on some of your designs where the
backyard is just a flat scape and you create this
beautiful area ponds and waterfalls and patios and landscape you
guys kind of One of the other things I like
is you don't just put the water feature, and you
also put in the landscaping that you'll be working with
partners on.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Oh yeah. We have lots of landscape partners in the community.
Probably seventy eighty percent of the landscape companies, the professional
companies out there. We work with them and we partner
with them on their water features and we team up
with their team and it's a it's a great fit
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because all we do is water. We're not a landscape contractor.
We don't do patios and walls and things like that.
We leave that to the experts we do you the water.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
What I'm saying is you create the whole design so
that the patios will be in there, you'll be able
to see it all, and then you work with.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Trade partners to do those different things.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
A lot of times, the design it's kind of all
We'll have a design brought to us and then we'll
plug in the water scape part of it, you know,
and then we make it come to life. So that's
that's a real common way to do it. If you
have a landscape plan, bring it to us, we can
incorporate a water feature right into that, you know, during
the process. So during the landscape process, if you're redoing
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your backyard, get us involved with your landscape contractor if
you have an existing landscape, have us come over take
a look at where a water feature would fit, where
a waterscape would would really nestle in, you know, somewhere
nice that you can see it and enjoy it. So
whether it's a mature landscape, an older landscape, or a
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brand new landscape, just get us involved.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So just so people understand, I think that a lot
of times, if it's a new listener, they hear this
and they think, oh, they're talking about one of those
fountains with the little guyping or the little umbrella or whatever.
Make no mistake, you guys spend a lot of time
in nature. As a matter of fact, I know you
take trips with your guys and go and look at
natural landscapes to duplicate what's going on there. So we're
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not talking about fountains and things like that. We're really
talking about if you looked at it. And I will
tell you it's funny because I went we went to
Culver's the other day and I went there with a
buddy of mine and your bubbling rock with oh sure, sure,
and you know what the I love the bubbling rock
and all that. But you would not know if you
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didn't know, because your sign's.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Right there that that's a feature.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
It looks like you build something on an area that
has a fault where water's coming up.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Like a like a bubbling spring exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And it's the coolest thing. And so that's why I
say give your website out because sometimes you know, people
are sitting and looking at their iPads while we're doing this.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, you definitely want to check us out at Aquaticaponds
dot com. Aquatica Ponds dot com or Aquatica with Wisconsin
is our Facebook page.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And that's cool too, because you guys have live videos
and drawing stuff and all kinds of stuff going on there.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Absolutely, we have videos of our home show displays and
all sorts of stuff. You know, we're constantly adding to it.
We're on YouTube under Aquatica Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You know, when I talk to people about when we're
doing tech projects and the thing, I'll bring up Aquatica
and they'll go on the website. One of the things
that you guys have to get over with your website
is that when you look at this, it looks extremely
and I pause, that means emphasis, okay, extremely expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I'm on the edge of my chair here.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well it does.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You look at it and people all say the same thing.
They go, oh, no, we won't be able to afford that.
But strangely enough, there's more surprises out there when you
guys get done, because it's not crazy expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
No, I mean, we've been doing this twenty five years.
We're part of the landscape commune. It's no different than
installing or you know, purchasing a hot tub or a
deck or a patio or outdoor lighting or anything. It's
another way to enhance your backyard life lifestyle, you know,
And there are affordable We wouldn't be around if they weren't.
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So we work with our customers' budgets, with their vision
and we really try to you know, hit a home run.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You talk about and now decks are much better. But
you know, I have a cedar deck and I'm constantly
replacing boards in it now. It's been it's over twenty
five years. It's and I'm too cheap to put composite
on it. It's just like I said, I'm the second cheapest,
kind of ruled.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
My father's a first, but I still have a wood deck. Yeah.
But here's the thing, Dean.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Another thing with the water features, and I'm a testament
to this. I have one that's over I think ten
years old, and another one that's probably four or five
years old. There's no maintenance. You don't have to do.
You know what I do with my two bubbling rocks.
I blow the leave off, sure, and then you plug
them in.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We teach people to do, you know, ten minutes a
week or less of maintenance. Every water feature we try
to design is about ten minutes or less a week
of maintenance. That's kind of our our start to a
swimming pool. Compare that to a deck, sure, a wood deck,
I mean, you know, I don't know. I think if
you have a nice wood deck, you're going to want
it to look good. So you're constantly touching up. You're
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constantly going with a bubbling rocket's almost or a water
feature or a pondless waterfall, a stream.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
It grows, it's part of a living and breathing yes, yeah,
and so it does change over the years because there's
different plant.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, there's different rainfall patterns, there's different sunlight patterns, all
sorts of at different times a year. So the pond
is always evolving. But maintenance wise, we want to keep
that maintenance to about ten minutes or less a week.
You add some treatments to the water, you check your filtration.
That's about it. If you want to. If you want
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to count feeding the fish as maintenance, you sometimes, you know,
two three times a week, maybe you're gonna throw in
a little food for the fish. You don't have to
you don't have to feed them at all. They find
plenty of food nature, Oh yeah, they find plenty of
food right in the pond feeding fish is more for
us than the grandkids and things like that as a hobby.
But you really don't have to do much maintenance even
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with the fish. In the winter, the fish stay in
the pond. You have a small hole in the ice
for gas exchange, little fountain aerator maybe in the pond
for aeration in the winter. That's it. The fish they
kind of hibernate it in the winter in the pond.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You guys, you know, you're talking about a lot of stuff,
and I'm sure people are trying to keep up with this,
but I think you just finished another seminar where it's
a class where you teach people.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, we have a spring startup seminar, we have a
fall shut down seminar at the store where we teach people,
and then just yesterday, just this past Saturday here we
call it the Ultimate Pond Seminar where we kind of
cover everything else aquatic plan that's lighting, fish enhancements, drift bubbles.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
We do.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
We do and it's all free.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
We we have people come in and we try to
teach them and show them the latest trends and water
features and things like that and the latest products. So
we had a really fun time yesterday, and uh, you know,
thanks for everybody for coming out and seeing us at Aquatica.
If you want to know more about, you know, the lifestyle,
(23:30):
like I like to say, it's you know everybody's using
that because a lot of people, Well that's what I'm saying.
If you want to know more about that hobby or
that lifestyle or that enhancement you can do to your landscape,
certainly call Aquatica at two six two nine six eight
five five four zero. Look us up at Aquatica ponds
(23:51):
dot com. Yeah, come and see us right at the store.
We're open nine to five Wednesday through Friday, and then
on Saturday we're open nine to one.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And you're you always have somebody in the store. If
I know, a lot of people try and do this themselves,
and you're okay with that, and you'll even help with it.
But you know, the pond failures that I've seen in
my lifetime have typically been people not knowing just the
little tweaks that you guys teach.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Well, it's an art and when people try to do
it themselves, it's very admirable and we certainly help them.
But if you want a professional looking piece of artwork
in your backyard. That's what you're getting.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Our guys are artists, are forming our artists, and they
have the eye. They've been doing this a very long time.
They know how to get the look and to make
these look very natural, very professional. Beautiful waterfalls and streams
and creeks and ponds in your backyard. That's what we do.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know, a lot of people will put yard sculptures out,
which I think are really cool. But with a feature,
you're getting the sculpture, you're getting the sound, you're getting
the lighting, you're getting all of it. And then you're
having interaction with nature and people.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
If you if you like to entertain people come over
and you have a party in the backyard and in
the background you hear this babbling brook, you know, this waterfall.
It's like where did that come from? You know? And
it's just such a.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Cool I got a friend when he comes over, well
maybe that'll drown him out. Then, Dean, let's give out
your information if someone's u if you even have an
inkling or or you're getting ready to do any kind
of landscaping, get these guys involved consultations free right.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yeah, and I did want to mention too, like if
we're getting a lot of customers that have some road
noise and traffic and these these ponds and waterfalls are
great to, you know, help for the buffer that noise.
So our our website is Aquaticaponds dot com and our
Facebook is a Quatica, Wisconsin and you can call the
(25:59):
store two six two nine six eight five five four zero.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Dean, thanks for spending a Sunday with the Guru again.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
It's always a pleasure. Again, folks, if.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You're thinking about anything any kind of out there, more
people are staying home now, so I know we are.
We we've kind of set up our yard for entertainment.
This is a great addition to that. So if you're
thinking about that, give Dina call am. I am not
only a good friend and an advocate, but I'm also
a customer of Aquatica. So we will return again next
week on News Talk eleven thirty WISN
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