Creating a Massive Organic Pool in 4 minutes
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- Designed by David Pagan Butler (me), this pool has become a valuable place for wildlife as well as a luscious freshwater swimming pool. The entire pool is circulated with my Organic Pools bubble flow system and uses less then 100 Watts. It also incorporates a "self cleaning" function that periodically removes accumulated silt from the corners.
Pool length 115 feet (35m) width 55 feet (17m). Swim zone 25m by 7m. Location, Norfolk, UK.
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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...
Nothing like a few cottonmouths to have around the house! 🤣
Don’t do it there so.
"we've got two separate circuits ... circumnavigating ... circumventing ... uh, going round the pond" :-)
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.
Wow! That was incredible! The results are beautiful and peaceful!
Thank you Lisa
You inspired me to get rid of my pool and make an organic swimming pond! My family loves it!
@@lisavincent4127 so you actually made one after this video? That's so amazing
@@thepoptingzor they made a comment about wanting to 😂
These pools are certainly becoming more popular NICE WORK don't forget the follow up so we can see the mature pool.
0:37 I see a crack already
Chris H Just say no to crack
I can't imagine how it could get caulked and still work
LOL- I saw it too but a lovely pool!
lol
Nice and beautiful water plants. Awesome products.
Wow ! 4 minutes ! I'd have thought it would have taken weeks ! ;-) Beautiful Work!
It took weeks
@@zearoxaph1427 no shit
If I ever become extremely wealthy, I'm calling you up :-)
Don't wait for that to happen. DIY is the answer
@@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?
@@himawanraharja4839 Here you can check the available materials out: www.organicpools.co.uk/DIY%20DVD.htm
How much did this cost?
@@eddywann5258 They never answer that do they?
beautifully done, the timing was perfect. as a Canadian I just miss your dry humour. need more of those yokes. LOL
Flight of the Valkyrie ... good choice. Better then all the other build videos that have some raving chipmunk
This video gives "Oh just me and the boys making a massive pool" vives, and I love it
this is a very much inspiring project. I would like frogs, turtles and fish in there. It lives in my dream :)
Amazing! Good proportions; well engineered and it looks great.
Amazing! So beautyfull and natural! I wish you made such a natural pond in my area! 💗💟💞
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 👍👍👍
Thank you fishaholic. Sadly, you may go cold turkey on this pool as there are no fish.
@@organicpools-davidpaganbutler you are a legend
Fish tend to eat all the good stuff that helps to keep the water clear so best to avoid fish altogether.
@@scrumpymanjack would need a different filtration system like for example: aquascape inc
LOVE THIS!!!
GREAT VIDEO, Hopefully, get a monthly update. Would like to see how this pool progresses.
Thank you! I am due to visit this pool soon so I'll post an update then.
David, you are a revolutionis, a pioneer, you need 1000 times more subscriber. Excellent content, excellent cause.
Essa ficou a melhor ... top
Master piece
I love these organic pools. I wish I could find someone to build one for me.
Wow, what a finale 😀👍👍
Mega massive pond!!!!
Just a FYI y’all. Those rolls of tarp weigh around 800-900 Lbs EACH!
My zero girlfriends 😍 used to weight that much 😂
WOW! this is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Thank you Ima
Awesome video and pool
That's king sized wow
wow. you must be very proud
LOVELY JOB CHAPS
Magnificent!🇨🇦
Very beautiful...
Imagine getting a fishing hook stuck on the plastic
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.
Now that's a big pool
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?
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...
…. Amazing & Tremendous job
Subscribed 👍🏽
Awesome
Sick with envy!
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?
Great work looks 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.
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.
WOW!...Beautiful!....😎👍
You can build 15 of these every hour?!? You must be really rich by now
Alas, it was a fib. i have been caught out.
maybe an organic pool shouldnt require an ancient forest worth of plastic
Organic refers to the system (using plants, no chemicals) rather than the materials. Maybe hemp plastic and concrete will be an option?
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.
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.
Very organic with all that plastic.
Bravo!!👏👏👏👏
This is incredible work! Love it.
Thank you. Although I just designed the pool, and consulted - I didn't do that much physical work on this one.
It indeed a good one!!!
Organic pool - growing up we called them "ponds".
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
It is a pond.
X X define the word pool.
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.
Amazing
Wonderful!
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.
nyajinsky cost a lot thousands a month to heat
Heating will.be fine
sublime !!
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?
Super inspiring!
Thank you Sarah
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.
Very nice.
beautiful , I am planning to make one organic pool also, and the only thing missing in the video was specs on the material used.
I don't get the exposed timber frame work at the bottom. Surely that's not going to last.
OMG that looks so expensive!
Nah.... expensive is a state of mind
Great and cool. If one were to build an organic pond completely organic and no plastic liner... How would you go about it?
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.
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?
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!
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
Whoa! .... a lake.....
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
If I ever get to a position where I can afford real estate, I'm doing this
What is the "break rate" on those seams?
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?
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
Why use wood underwater?
Does this cost one or two arms?
One arm, one leg. And maybe even an ear, too.
David, what liner did you use fir this build, please? Thanks.
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
That one day when the sun was shining in the uk
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?
I want one
Beautiful 🙂
Thank you White Rose
If you are going to use Wagners Valkyries you got to play through to the cannons.
Magnificent ❤️
Thank you t hobbs
Epic!
Some drone footage would be interesting
That cant be cheap
Yep.. Would be interesting to know final cost.
can't be 4 minutes either
For building materials, liner, ballast etc £35K. Labour on top.
And yes, more than 4 minutes
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.
Q- How do you fix the wooden sleepers to the brick wall so as to make them secure?.
I'll take on in Saltwater.
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?
Yes indeed Here is how I did it czcams.com/video/iDlvOL1gvVs/video.html
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.
Amazing 😱😱😱
Just use brick not concrete?
Do you have a water meter?
what kind of canvas is this?
Why not use clay?
Heavenly.
Thank you Nicole
hey david wat types of plants do you use???
Pond kind
I feel like theirs no choice but to use a liner ??
I just want one the size of a bathtub. What can you do with a Dune? I live on a Sand Dune.
It's done
Why the need for the rectangular cinder block portion?
Sir can you explain how the filtration works!