My forever dream I’m 65 its about time I realize it ❤thanks for inspiring me I feel that it’s at man’s reach

Looks nice, I am afraid in New Orleans that a gator, snapping turtle, or several less than friendly snakes would take up residence very quickly...

@donaldducks3916

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a few cottonmouths to have around the house! 🤣

@savedfaves

Ай бұрын

Don’t do it there so.

This video gives "Oh just me and the boys making a massive pool" vives, and I love it

"we've got two separate circuits ... circumnavigating ... circumventing ... uh, going round the pond" :-)

If I ever become extremely wealthy, I'm calling you up :-)

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Don't wait for that to happen. DIY is the answer

@himawanraharja4839

5 жыл бұрын

@@organicpools-davidpaganbutler Hi David, i'm interested in learning how to make this. Is there any book/e-book that you could refer me to?

@balazstivadar8631

5 жыл бұрын

@@himawanraharja4839 Here you can check the available materials out: www.organicpools.co.uk/DIY%20DVD.htm

@eddywann5258

4 жыл бұрын

How much did this cost?

@StanTheObserver-lo8rx

4 жыл бұрын

@@eddywann5258 They never answer that do they?

I have a splash pond. Works great. My big pond is coming. I'm modifying David's plans. Plastic on the bottom. Concrete on top. A few more changes.... too detailed to type. But it will be much easier to construct and cheaper.

this is a very much inspiring project. I would like frogs, turtles and fish in there. It lives in my dream :)

Flight of the Valkyrie ... good choice. Better then all the other build videos that have some raving chipmunk

I love these organic pools. I wish I could find someone to build one for me.

Nice and beautiful water plants. Awesome products.

beautifully done, the timing was perfect. as a Canadian I just miss your dry humour. need more of those yokes. LOL

These pools are certainly becoming more popular NICE WORK don't forget the follow up so we can see the mature pool.

Wow, what a finale 😀👍👍

0:37 I see a crack already

@brianmck7363

4 жыл бұрын

Chris H Just say no to crack

@quinosonic82

4 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how it could get caulked and still work

@EarthREALTOR

3 жыл бұрын

LOL- I saw it too but a lovely pool!

@gongima

3 жыл бұрын

lol

Wow! That was incredible! The results are beautiful and peaceful!

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Lisa

@lisavincent4127

5 жыл бұрын

You inspired me to get rid of my pool and make an organic swimming pond! My family loves it!

@thepoptingz

2 жыл бұрын

@@lisavincent4127 so you actually made one after this video? That's so amazing

@savedfaves

Ай бұрын

@@thepoptingzor they made a comment about wanting to 😂

Wow ! 4 minutes ! I'd have thought it would have taken weeks ! ;-) Beautiful Work!

@zearoxaph1427

5 жыл бұрын

It took weeks

@BenDover-kc2co

4 жыл бұрын

@@zearoxaph1427 no shit

David, you are a revolutionis, a pioneer, you need 1000 times more subscriber. Excellent content, excellent cause.

That's king sized wow

Great work looks amazing

Amazing! Good proportions; well engineered and it looks great.

Mega massive pond!!!!

WOW!...Beautiful!....😎👍

Awesome video and pool

Master piece

Sick with envy!

LOVELY JOB CHAPS

Amazing! So beautyfull and natural! I wish you made such a natural pond in my area! 💗💟💞

Wonderful!

Very beautiful...

Magnificent!🇨🇦

sublime !!

Bravo!!👏👏👏👏

…. Amazing & Tremendous job Subscribed 👍🏽

Super inspiring!

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sarah

wow. you must be very proud

WOW! this is BEAUTIFUL!!!

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ima

Now that's a big pool

It indeed a good one!!!

Amazing

Essa ficou a melhor ... top

beautiful , I am planning to make one organic pool also, and the only thing missing in the video was specs on the material used.

LOVE THIS!!! GREAT VIDEO, Hopefully, get a monthly update. Would like to see how this pool progresses.

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am due to visit this pool soon so I'll post an update then.

Awesome

Incredible pond, looks so natural. Love the plants which sort of gives an impression of Bush. Did you stock them with fish mate? Great work in building this amazing pond 👍👍👍

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you fishaholic. Sadly, you may go cold turkey on this pool as there are no fish.

@concretecat

3 жыл бұрын

@@organicpools-davidpaganbutler you are a legend

@scrumpymanjack

2 жыл бұрын

Fish tend to eat all the good stuff that helps to keep the water clear so best to avoid fish altogether.

@creecree4983

2 жыл бұрын

@@scrumpymanjack would need a different filtration system like for example: aquascape inc

This is incredible work! Love it.

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Although I just designed the pool, and consulted - I didn't do that much physical work on this one.

Magnificent ❤️

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you t hobbs

Epic!

Very nice.

probably a dumb question, but what do you use to stick the seams in the liner together? my family is about to expand our small fish pond (currently about 2.5x1.5meters rounded rectangle) , and it's probably going to require stitching a few pieces of liner together to fit the shape (it's going to be a sort of L shape with a rounded outer corner). Is silicone calk ok? or do I need to get something stronger?

Just a FYI y’all. Those rolls of tarp weigh around 800-900 Lbs EACH!

@LC-ue6mp

4 жыл бұрын

My zero girlfriends 😍 used to weight that much 😂

Hi David, love your work and your floppy hat. I have one very important question! do you ever have issues with clogging over time? If your airlift pumps are pulling water down through the substrate, the geotextile and the gravel I am wondering if the geotextile clogs with fine silt eventually? What is the longest standing pool you have that is still working (unclogged)? Thanks!

@creativecascades1328

4 жыл бұрын

If you want a low maintenance version, then an ecosystem pond with intake bay or negative edge is the way to go and where the wetland filter (planted zone) has an access vault for back washing and pumping out to clean once a year

Beautiful 🙂

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you White Rose

I fell in love with these pools. I was wondering, if it was in colder climate (Scandinavia), if there's a way to heat the water. I think the heaters need a clean water to function. would it be possible to somehow connect a filter with a heater for a natural pool? or would heating destroy the plants.

@ltyt958

4 жыл бұрын

nyajinsky cost a lot thousands a month to heat

@LC-ue6mp

4 жыл бұрын

Heating will.be fine

Amazing 😱😱😱

I would imagine an organic pool to not have a pump system and to rely solely on algae filtering fish and plants to keep it clean, along with a rerouted fresh water well/ small river to flow in, accumulate and then flow out of it. I read somewhere that a few willow trees for shade also help with the algae issue, in which case you would only require a net to catch the fallen leaves at fall time. I want to build one myself next year and I already planted some trees around where the pond will go a year ago. +I will build the basin part out of concrete and the brim out of large boulders. Hope it will look as pretty as this. I want to also install a 'hill' on one of the sides with charcoal, gravel and sand filter to recirculate the water using a pump in case I messed up and it fills up with algae.

@creativecascades1328

3 жыл бұрын

The ponds I build get very little algae and are crystal clear even in full sun. Remember trees will shed leaves into the water which can provide nutrients for algae! The secret to clean clear water is turnover of the water, biological activity and aeration.

Very organic with all that plastic.

looks great as always. have you evolved the design a little from previous iterations? you mention air lift pumps to remove silt - how does that function? also there are horizontal spans of wooden beams coming out at 90 degrees periodically around the submerged wooden rectangle, and are buried under the stone fill - is this to increase stability/prevent it floating?

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

HI Brian, I have done some videos about making a pool vacuum with an airlift - this pool just has them pre-installed. Yes those horizontal timbers do just that.

I am also particulary interested in the specific build of the vacuums. I do understand the principle behind the system, but where does the debris goes in this case. If it is just pumped to planted zone water area, I would think it would permanently affect the water clearity in a negative way… And can you even reach the dirt in the center part of the pond with this setup?

Some drone footage would be interesting

Great and cool. If one were to build an organic pond completely organic and no plastic liner... How would you go about it?

@creativecascades1328

3 жыл бұрын

You can try and line with clay but it's not reliable in every location, and difficult to get right. Furthermore it almost certainly wont have clear water because nutrients will constantly get through the clay into the water thus causing algae.

what if i add a bottom drain and a concrete multi chamber filter with pump (up and down system) to this system ? would it be better? i'll have koi fish too. i'm willing to reconstruct my koi pond (i have videos on my channel) and make it a little bit larger and deeper for the kids to swim in it.

Organic pool - growing up we called them "ponds".

@creativecascades1328

4 жыл бұрын

A standard pond accumulates with detritus over time and can suffer with string algae etc. Davids organic pools are quite different, indeed they differ from my ecosystem ponds

@Nostromo_1

4 жыл бұрын

It is a pond.

@MegaLaban12345

3 жыл бұрын

X X define the word pool.

@scrumpymanjack

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn’t matter whether you call them ponds or pools. The point is that these are controlled environments with water circulation to avoid algae and to keep the water clear. Your ponds don’t have any of that.

Imagine getting a fishing hook stuck on the plastic

@75MalcolmX

4 жыл бұрын

In holland they often use clay to keep the water in the artifical lakes. One time my friend felled a tree into the lake and dragged it out with a tractor. The lake leaked.

It looks like are harming the envirounment more than a conventional pool. Is it hard to make a 100% natural one? I mean, using clay to prevent soil leaking than using polymers...

Whoa! .... a lake.....

Q- How do you fix the wooden sleepers to the brick wall so as to make them secure?.

Do you ever get a hole in the liner?, would you have to drain the whole thing? Is there a way to do this sort of thing with bentonite clay?

@penandpike

3 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed Here is how I did it kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3ig2LGFYcrchtY.html

If I ever get to a position where I can afford real estate, I'm doing this

How does this compare to digging a pond and compacting a layer of clay down? This looks overly complicated to me with potential for the system to fail in the future. I'd rather keep things simple or just not do them.

@zeljkobanovic4398

2 жыл бұрын

Well, I like questions like this one so I will answer this one:) The difference is in overall size. This pool is big, so the surface area of exposed clay in water - compared to volume of water is small. That means that this pool could have been done using only clay. However, if it was a smaller pool clay would have be practically impossible to biofilter :) using slow circulation. So, to be more precise, safety. In case you want to heat your pool, clay would have been a bad bad idea. You may even get a deadly amoeba.

I love the job that you're doing. I'm a big fan! Question - why are there pipes with the 90 degree knee (kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZiZo62TYtfVcbA.html) reaching almost bottom to the pond? For better circulation? :)

That one day when the sun was shining in the uk

Would waterfoul create an issue in the water balance or no?

Wow, beautiful. Where was that, UK?

Question - would it be possible to build the pool without liner by using something else perhaps impermeable clay like bennonite?

@zeljkobanovic4398

2 жыл бұрын

It is most definitively possible, the only problem is - clay is super rich in phosphorous and amoebas. There is no way of removing nutrients from it - or amoebas :) You will have to satisfy with less clear water and more chances of getting a sore throat after swimming. I would definitively not recommend heating the clay based pool, because that can get deadly ... There is a reason no one uses bentonite any more. You will need to be a professional :) biologist for a liner like that. If not - It would have to be really big and deep in order to compensate :) safety

I’m wondering, after seeing many of these videos, why the rejuvenation area is always shallow and wide? I understand the rejuvenation area needs to be a similar capacity to the swimming area but would a deep and narrow rejuvenation area not work as well. Is it something to do with a build up of sediment or the flow of the water from the bubble pump wouldn’t work as well or something?

I know this is an old video but I'm not quite sure I understand the design of the bubble pumps on this one. What is the purpose of the 6 pipes that go through the wall in into the swimming zone?

Where do I get organic pond liner!?!?!?

Now I am a bit puzzled. The air lift pumps are on the PLANT (renegeration) side, not the SWIMMING (deep) side. This seems to be the wrong way round compared to your other model? Now I am in doubt as to whether to flow water from the swimming area to the plants, or the other way round. Or perhaps it doesn't matter?

@zazugee

4 жыл бұрын

its a design choice, but its the same principle, the PVC pipes on the corner are something new, he said its for the silt in pool corner cleaning system but you can see that most other pipes have a flexible hooz linked to the outer bog region

David, what liner did you use fir this build, please? Thanks.

Hello! Greetings from Brasil! Please let me ask : no iron bars on the concret blocks??? I want to make a pool like tjis here😊😊 congrats and thanks for share it

So that all looks beyond my wildest dreams amazing but…. That upper lining of wood… won’t that be 1) breaking down and adding to murky-ness that needs to be filters and 2) need to be replaced in 5 or so years depending on the wood?

You can build 15 of these every hour?!? You must be really rich by now

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Alas, it was a fib. i have been caught out.

I just want one the size of a bathtub. What can you do with a Dune? I live on a Sand Dune.

@LC-ue6mp

4 жыл бұрын

It's done

I don't get the exposed timber frame work at the bottom. Surely that's not going to last.

can you do a video on the gunk lifters :D

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Luke.. I did films on pool vacuums already. These are just preinstalled versions

Why the need for the rectangular cinder block portion?

Sir can you explain how the filtration works!

What was the cost for this pool?

Hi, awesome idea and work! Id like to build one of this organic pools in the future in my permaculture farms in Poland and Tenerife(Spain), and Id contact you guys for that! Just theres one thing: how can affect the frost to this pools and the balance of its artificial ecosystem? Because in Poland we reach quite cold temperatures in winter, -15/-20 ºC, and Im a bit concerned about that being a problem cause Itd kill at least many plants and beneficial microorganism (and fishes, which we wanna have in the pool, which I guess its posible, rigth?), so if all the year the pool is creating life and balnce in the ecosystem and then after the winter it all dies, thats a pity xd... Thanx! Greetings from Poland/Tenerife!! :)

@organicpools-davidpaganbutler

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Dani, ice is not a problem. These pools have been made in Canada and the pool ice is two foot thick. The ecology is just fine.

@hendriklepel7808

3 жыл бұрын

@@organicpools-davidpaganbutler looking at different natural swimming pond solutions and trying to find the best solution for myself. Two questions: Does the UV light not demage the liner in the swimming zone ( read one or two things about it). Is the aerated concrete retaining block wall not reinforced? ( I usually see that as standard) especially considering season changes and ground movement. Thanks a mil

So organic pool is basically a pond. Where I grew up some beavers built me one of these for free in a small brook. Plants sand turtles fish the works. Didn't spend a dime swam all summer, completely natural or organic or whatever is the new buz.

hey david wat types of plants do you use???

@LC-ue6mp

4 жыл бұрын

Pond kind

Does this cost one or two arms?

@Dinckelburg

3 жыл бұрын

One arm, one leg. And maybe even an ear, too.

WOOWWWWW

Noticed you added a bubble pump in each corner of pool to "vacuum" debris from bottom........ Did i understood correct? Not shown was the connection of the "vacuum" tubes...... did see long flex hoses move to outer part of pool so may I assume these connect to filter And the aircompressor of 60W has enough capacity to feed 6 pcs airstones; 2nd airpump to use for vacuum My design pool is 90 m2 swim and 150 m2 regeneration area......so think i need 2 airpumps and 10-12 airstone tubes....... Further consider to make the "bubble-barrier" as indicator between swim zone and regeneration zone. Will drop you email with my plan in few weeks to get your opinion

Hey I’m planing on building a swimming pond and have couple of questions I’d love to ask you for help.

@LC-ue6mp

4 жыл бұрын

What are your questions? How much are you willing to pay for the answers?

How deep can these be made?

How much did it cost to build this?

do the black drain pipes have holes?

hello, I would like to have cc subtitles on this youtube pls. Because I can't hearing at all. regard Paul

Wood inside the water? I assume it is somehow treated to not rot. It also kinda looks like a swampy lake with all those green colours and plants. I don't think I would be able to swim into something like this while my feet touching plants and slime.