Contact:
Sheila Boyce – President
Office: 2699 Tigertail Avenue, #54, Miami, FL 33133
(305) 857-0466 DSDmiami@gmail.com
About Us:
All built-in concrete planters eventually leak, creating costly structural issues over time. This is a costly design flaw as many condo boards, architects, and residents have found out through costly remediation projects.
In 2006, Sheila and Tom Boyce created stand-alone planters and screen walls to avoid poured in place concrete planters that also didn’t need to penetrate the roof membrane above the penthouse units of the Grove Club Condos they built in Coconut Grove, Florida.
As the Developer and General Contractor of the project, and planning to retain one of the units to live in long-term, the planters were created to replace built-in concrete planters specified by the Architect with a practical design that would provide the lowest overall cost of ownership to the condo board and the environment over time.
Now, after almost two decades of rain, sun, and numerous hurricanes, we are pleased to report that the original planters will still be in fine condition for at least another 20 years or more.
DeepStream Designs Founders
Sheila Boyce, with an MBA from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto, developed the unique flexible infrastructure of our company, focused entirely on working with you as part of your team to overcome your operating challenges.
The business, costing, and project delivery model she created for DeepStream — selling custom, factory-direct solutions — puts customer satisfaction as our first priority. Homeowners, Project Managers, CEOs, Owners, Developers, and Operations Managers are all treated professionally with friendly, personal service.
Designer Tom Boyce’s commitment to durable design has been a life-long passion spanning more than 50 years. He founded Marmot Mountain Works, the premier expedition mountaineering equipment company at the time, in 1974, at age 19, and later was the CEO of a 330-store women’s retail chain, with interim breaks rebuilding, maintaining, and sailing yachts. Both on mountains and at sea, lives literally depended on Tom’s solutions being successful every time.
The aluminum extrusions and assembly systems he created deliver solutions to customers’ challenges that are reduced to their simplest robust form to deliver the lowest cost of ownership to the purchaser and the environment over time.
As professional yacht captains, Tom and Sheila have been inspired by great design in locales visited during their travels. Now, with the years of experience gained with materials that endure the tough ocean-going marine environment, Tom continues to create and test the durability and finishes of our extrusions in the products that use the principles of Sustainable Design and marine-grade materials to build on classic concepts with a contemporary edge, enviable durability, and deceptively simple design.
We don’t make empty product claims. Our product testing of extrusion strength and anodized finish includes a solar frame mounted to a sailboat logging over 11,000 nautical miles in the Atlantic Ocean. Subjected to 3 years of ocean spray and north Atlantic waves and winds up to 80 knots in the Greenland Sea they look like new.
It easy for our competitors to say their products provide good value for money; DeepStream proves it, so you can make an educated choice and join our long list of repeat blue chip customers in resting easy with your purchase decision. From simple trash and recycling receptacles to extensive screen walls, all of our products benefit from our trademark marine-anodized extrusions being constantly tested in the extreme North Atlantic oceans of Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, the North Sea, and tradewind route to, and through, the Caribbean blasted by Sahara sand storms.
Our standard Audubon extrusions are being used on solar frames upon which sailboats rely on for electrical power. With thousands of miles of salt water spray, ocean immersion, wind of up to 80 knots, there have been no failures in material or finish. As our many customers with oceanfront properties can attest, with the simplest of maintenance, DeepStream’s products stand the test of time, outperforming our competitors.
Tom and Sheila’s first project after yachting — designing and building a European-courtyard-style condominium and furnishings for a condo hotel in Coconut Grove, Florida one block from the harbor — led to the creation of DeepStream Designs, which offers to the public Tom’s trademark marine-anodized aluminum structural extrusions designed with the flexibility to craft garden planters, recycling bins, screen wall, enclosures, and custom fixtures that have a Lifetime Structural Warranty. These extrusions have been rigorously tested supporting solar panels on a 42′ sailboat, “Willow,” logging more than 11,000 thousands of miles on rough ocean crossings. Since we do not use welds that can break, all parts are replaceable. We partner with our customers through our Core Replacement Program so that damaged parts can be replaced at our direct manufacturer’s cost with no markup.
DeepStream’s Business Model
We realize that you’re calling DeepStream for solutions, not products, so don’t be surprised when the founders, our President Sheila, our Designer Tom, or one of our dedicated product engineers answer your phone call, as we don’t have sales people. Having been in your shoes as developers, general contractors, and building managers ourselves, we realized that a distributor network and salespeople add a layer of cost that does not add value for our customers, so we have fostered a corporate culture of accountability to our clients. You don’t need to speak to salespeople, you need operational solutions directly from your single point-of-contact who will see your solution through to successful implementation.
Today, just as when Sheila and Tom started DeepStream 18 years ago, we work hands-on with you, “manufacturer direct,” eliminating bottlenecks and the frustration and miscommunication of working through a distributor network or sales people. We ensure that all your questions are answered and that your project is given the utmost care and attention, starting with free, fast, no-obligation quotes for one solution or a hundred. By design and execution, we ensure that your solution delivers the lowest cost of ownership to you and the environment over time.
Our business model would not be complete without giving back to the earth’s protection in a monetary form. We support terrestrial conservancy not only by providing Recycled Plastic Lumber to eliminate the need for hardwood deforestation of Tropical Rainforests, but also by supporting restoration via Trees for the Future with every order in our customers’ name, and the issue of a certificate of donation in our customers’ name. With our customers help we have now planted over 650,000 trees.
DeepStream also supports Ocean Conservancy through the Niue Ocean Wide Trust fund. Niue is a small endangered Pacific Island Nation environmentally focused on protecting the waters around it by eliminating commercial fishing and exploitation, creating a safe haven for restocking the world’s ocean. DeepStream has funded an Ocean Conservancy Commitment of the Moana Mahu Area of 1 kilometer square reef for 20 years. If you are looking for a verifiable commitment to improving oceans, this is one you might consider.
Solutions to your operational challenges
Customized to solve your operational challenges, our products are made to our customers’ specifications by American craftsmen. We incorporate deceptively simple, aesthetically pleasing designs which minimize environmental impact through timeless design, material selection, and rugged construction using sustainable principles.
Our designs are solutions that last for many generations, providing the lowest cost of ownership over time and reducing the impact on our environment. DeepStream’s solutions handcrafted using our proprietary marine-anodized aluminum frame system and recycled plastic lumber have been outselling tropical hardwood since 2016.
If you’re looking for temporary or “cheap” throw-away products that trash the environment, wasting materials, time, labor, and money, don’t bother with our site. We only make products that last for decades, withstanding the test of time in tough marine environments.
Design
Design is a key aspect of Sustainable Design. We believe that less is more, and work very hard to reduce each design to its simplest form.
Designed for simple assembly and replacement of all components, backed by our Lifetime Structural Warranty and unique “Core Replacement Program,” our modular products can be easily repaired and refinished, instead of being tossed away as just more rubbish after wasting your precious time, energy, and money on inferior products.
With design input and feedback from thousands of customers, including Architects, Project Managers, Operations Managers, Property Managers, General Managers, Owners, General Contractors, Executive Chefs, Interior Designers, Landscape Architects, and Homeowners, you will find solutions custom-tailored to meet your needs, having been continuously tested and refined by leaders in your industry as well as at sea.
Materials
Materials are as important to Sustainable Design as the design component. DeepStream’s products use a wide range of durable materials including: tropical hardwoods, recycled plastic lumber (HDPE), aluminum, 3form Eco-resin, polycarbonate, glass, marble, 316 stainless steel, and many more.
Recycled Plastic Lumber (RPL) and Natural Hardwood
A goal of material selection at DeepStream, along with product longevity, is to reduce or eliminate the needless destruction of the world’s tropical rainforests. Tropical hardwoods, for the most part, take several generations to grow, and carpenter-built wood planters can start falling apart within a few years, while ours will last for decades. We introduced Recycled Plastic Lumber (RPL) as a viable alternative in 2010, and it has been outselling natural wood since 2016.
RPL is an excellent material for creating product solutions for the food service industry and exposed locations, like parking lots and shopping centers, as it doesn’t absorb stains and will look like new for decades without the labor-intensive maintenance required by real wood. RPL can be pressure cleaned for sanitation, as DeepStream’s proprietary aluminum extrusions are marine-anodized, so there is no paint or powder coating to fail.
Longevity is achieved by using the most durable materials and finishes available to ensure that our products last as long as possible. Material must also ultimately be easily recyclable at the end of its long life. The marine anodizing on DeepStream’s proprietary structural aluminum extrusions will never fail like paint or powder coating. Fasteners are 18-8 stainless steel coated with proprietary dielectric paste to prevent corrosion as used in marine installations aboard ships, while other components like hinges and lids are 316 stainless steel not 304.
Craftsmanship
Our craftsmen are the third, and equally important, link in delivering quality solutions that will stand the test of time. It is critical to us that each team member has pride of ownership, so there is no “assembly line” production.
Each solution is crafted by one person from the raw components until it has its final inspection by another member of the team. Orders are packaged with recycled cardboard on custom reusable / recyclable North American softwood FSC timber pallets that we build in-house to our exacting specifications to ensure safe delivery to you.
In addition to the motivation provided by pride of craftsmanship and creating meaningful products, our American craftsmen are sharing in the financial benefits of a creating a successful customer focused company. We can pay more than a living wage to our team, as well as innovation and profit-sharing bonuses, and stock ownership, in part, because our business model cuts out the distribution / sales cost layer that doesn’t add value to our customers’ product solutions engineered to provide the lowest cost of ownership over time. Our 30,000+ sq. ft. workshop is clean, well lit, and air-conditioned.
