I don't know if this place still makes them, I found this link elsewhere on that site. I just have a 1 1/2" pvc pipe instead of a weir, but you won't get a 'sheet' of water effect with it. Perhaps some other DIY's will chime in. Good Luck, S Here is a link that might be useful: SS Spillway

Usually there is power at the road, if not on the property itself. If there isn't any, that likely means it is in a very remote area. The availablity of power, and how much it will cost to bring to the property, should be ascertained before anything else. If there is no survey, your parents will want to have one done to their satisfaction. You can negotiate on who pays for it, but it is usually the buyer, if the seller doesn't have a current survey. If there is no current survey, you usually cannot get title insurance that will cover the boundaries. No improvements means it is raw land with no structures and no utility work done on the property itself. No gas means just that. No piped gas service on that road. If they have to have gas, they can price propane. It won't be cheap. You should also determine if there is phone service on the road. Personally, if they have to ask what all these points mean, it sounds like they may be in over their heads. Buying raw land is a tricky business. Be wary.

A post from 2011 was replying to problems with humming and flickers from leds. He recommended Lutron's LNDvelv-303p He said "even the Diva cl" don't eliminate the problems like the one above. Just wanted to run this by you before I talk to the electrician. the first dimmer is very expensive. The second less than half the price. Thanks.

debrak, I like the way they do it here with the fabricator and slab yard being separate. (I'm in Northern California.) It meant that we could select material from any of the yards in our area and we could select a fabricator with a good recommendation. We went to all of the yards. One yard wouldn't give prices, all the rest would and we decided not to deal with the one that wouldn't. Our fabricator said we could use any yard but also gave us a list of the ones they usually worked with. Laurensmom, when we would go to a yard, we would give them our fabricator's name and the yard would tell us the price for slabs we were interested in. I'm under the impression that the price to a given fabricator may depend on how much business that fabricator does with them. Our fabricator doesn't mark-up the slabs (though I don't know whether he gets any kick-back from the slab yard). He just charges enough for fabrication to cover what he wants from the job. After had the slabs held, we could either pay the slab yard directly or pay him and he would buy them. In either case, he would check the slabs to see that they didn't have any flaw that would make them unsuitable. I'm not sure who was responsible for the slabs between the slab yard and the fabricator. It would have been either the yard or fabricator depending on who did the transport - they worked that out between them. The fabricator was responsible for them from then until they were installed. If they dropped it or made a mistake in fabrication, it would be their responsibility to replace them. I remember our fabricator saying that they were going need to be extra careful with ours because the slabs were so expensive (and it would have been very difficult to find a match if the slabs from our lot were gone). We saw slabs of an unusual blue stone at one yard that we really liked but they were very small so our 4 by 8 foot island would have needed a seam. We checked all the other yards and found one other had the same stone. They had lovely slabs big enough for our island though the L would have needed two seams. We would have bought them but they checked inventory at their other stores and found a lot with bigger slabs. So they held the first slabs we chose while the bigger ones were transported to the local yard. We came and looked at the big slabs and liked them so bought those instead. Blue is a less common color and which makes most blue stones expensive, but I thought blue pearl (or was it blue eyes) was an exception - not the cheapest but not exotic pricing. Our fabricator required that all the cabinets were in place to come out and template and all sinks and accessories on site. They took the sinks with them (undermount). For the install, our plumber was there as well as us and the fabricator's folks so that we could all agree on positioning of the holes for sink accessories.