A cowboy pool is the great Austin backyard move, until July. A stock tank holds a small volume of water in a steel shell, and in full sun that water gets so warm it stops being refreshing at all. The homeowner had the pool; the sun was taking the cool. The landscape company finishing the backyard wanted shade that solved the water temperature and matched the quality of their build, without taking on tensioned fabric, a discipline with its own physics, themselves.
We designed and fabricated a custom triangle sail with the cable run through the hem for a clean, tensioned edge, and installed it on the structure ATX Prestige Landscaping had set. Out of direct sun, the water stays cool enough to do its job, which is the whole point of a cowboy pool. It's a use case we'd point any stock-tank owner to: shade the tank, keep the swim.
That's our trade model in one project: they build the rest, we do the shade.
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