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Living Pool

Living Pools, Designed and Built by Ellicar

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Crystal-clear, chemical-free water

Living Pool
Contemporary
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Modern
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Low-Maintenance
Indoor or Outdoor, whether it sits in your garden or inside your home.
Hidden filtration with units under decking or paving, out of sight.
Swim all year round with an air source heat pump taking the temperature to 26°C.
Chemical-free, living water.
Easy, low-level maintenance with a pool robot.
Pool cover keeps leaves out and warmth in, so your water naturally clear and ready to swim.
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Overview

What is a Living Pool?

Living Pool

Living pools look just like conventional pools. Yet you'll swim in pure, living water without chemicals.

Hidden, ultra-quiet Biotop filtration units purify and filter the water biologically, keeping it clean and clear without chlorine and other chemicals. During the swimming season a pool robot cleans the pool daily.

Living pools can be installed outside or indoors and fit most spaces - sizes start from a tiny plunge pool to a full-size competition pool.

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Filtration

How living pool filtration works: crystal clear and chemical free

Swim Zones Living Pool
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Filtration Zone

Biotop filtration units purify and filter the water biologically, keeping it clean and clear without chlorine and other chemical
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Swimming Zone

The entire pool is a swim zone with no water plants, built with reinforced concrete walls and lined with a 1.2mm TPO liner.
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Retractable Pool Cover

A retractable cover keeps the water clean and warm when you're not swimming, then rolls away to hide neatly at the short end of the pool.
Customisation

Make it your own with heating, covers, paving, decking and more...

Living Pool Cover

Heating & Covers

Living pools can be heated to 28C, usually with an air source heat pump, extending the swimming season, especially for outdoor pools. We advise covering an outside living pool using solar or thermal covers when not in use.
Living Pool Decking

Paving & Decking

Options such as paving and decking ensure your living pool fits seamlessly with your house and garden, helping you make the most of your pool and outside space.
Living Pool Steps

Pool Steps

Wide, shallow steps let you walk in gradually and let the water take the edge off a warm day, and they make a natural spot to sit with your feet in the water.
Comparison

Choose the right pool type for you

Natural Swimming Pool overhead

Natural Pools

Formal, contemporary or naturalistic design to fit your lifestyle. Make it family friendly with beaches, stepping stones and more. The ultimate in outdoor living.

Reinforced concrete construction
Biological filtration
Hard or soft pool edge
Aquatic planting
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Natural Swimming Pond

Swimming Ponds

Shaped from the earth and with a smaller ecological footprint. The ideal watery retreat for wildlife lovers, wild swimmers, and anyone preferring a concrete-free pool.

Concrete free construction
Biological filtration
Soft pool edge
Aquatic planting
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Living Pool

Living Pools

A conventional-looking pool but with chemical-free biological filtration and without aquatic plants. Better for you, and better for the environment.

Tailored 1.2mm TPO liner
Biological filtration
Paved or deck edge
No aquatic planting
Visit

Visit our award-winning natural swimming pool in Nottinghamshire

If you’re considering a natural swimming pool for your home, we’d love to invite you to Ellicar Gardens.

Meet our team, explore the gardens, see how a natural pool works in practice, and ask us anything about the process, design, maintenance and what’s involved. And, if you’d like to experience the water first-hand, you can even take a dip.

It’s a chance to see, feel and understand what living with a natural swimming pool could really be like, and to start imagining what’s possible for your own garden.

To make a visitation appointment, please get in touch.

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Projects

Selection of our Living Pool & Natural Pool Projects

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If you have any questions about natural swimming pools, or you would like to discuss a project, please get in touch.

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