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Sarah Murch

It’s just like wild swimming in your own back garden, in crystal clear chemical-free water, immersed in nature.

And because natural pools start from a 40m2 plunge pool up to swimming lake size, they're perfect for most outdoor spaces.

Designed to fit your lifestyle and blend into your garden, a natural pool can be formal, contemporary or naturalistic. The water's edge may be finished with a fringe of marginal plants or stone coping for a formal look. 

Crystal-clear, chemical-free water, always 

A natural pool has a swimming area and regeneration zones separated by low submerged walls. Beautiful water plants growing in the regeneration zones play a vital role in your pool’s biological filtration system, keeping the water balanced. Our natural pools are also fitted with world-renowned Biotop’s water balancing technology to keep the water crystal clear and hygienically filtered.  

Benefits

What are the benefits of a natural pool?

Easy, low-level maintenance with a pool robot thanks to the concrete construction and tailored liner.

The swimming zone and regeneration areas are separated by low submerged walls leaving you plenty of space to enjoy clear, hygienic, living water without the need for chemicals.

The water appears effortlessly natural by a carefully planned hydraulic system hard at work below the surface circulating the water through biological and mineral filters, ensuring it’s hygienic and fit for swimming all year round.

The result is a balanced pool, with water that feels like a mountain lake close to its source: soft, sparkling and with an energy that’s both rejuvenating and relaxing. And just like your garden, natural pools change with the seasons, giving you a still, reflective surface in winter which is where they get their name, sky mirrors.

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Low running costs.

Long swimming season with natural thermal gain and temperatures reaching 26C in summer.

Multiple design options including naturalistic, contemporary, and formal.

Family-friendly design possibilities such as beaches and in-pool features like jetties, stepping stones and boulders.

Option to create moving water through millstones, rills and jets using hydraulics.

Magnet for wildlife using regeneration zones with native deep aquatics and marginal flowering plants.

Beautiful all year and changes with the seasons like a garden.

Blends seamlessly with your garden.

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Cost

How much does a natural pool cost?

Costs are a guide, excluding VAT and based on a 2m-deep engineered concrete swim chamber, a small shallow end, a regeneration zone and Biotop filtration, and subject to final design, site access and ground conditions.

80m2 concrete construction - £100,000
100m2 concrete construction - £135,000
200m2 concrete construction - £200,000
300m2 concrete construction - £260,000
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Maintenance

cleaning a natural pool

What maintenance is involved with a natural pool?

Customer maintenance

Low-level maintenance is needed during the swimming season, and it's made easy with a pool robot. The skimmer needs checking and emptying daily, taking just a few minutes. In autumn, leaves need removing using a net.

Professional servicing

Cost: around £800 per pool service plus travel

Each winter our pool maintenance team services your natural pool, cuts back the water plants, cleans and vacuums the pool and services the pumps and filters. We check flow rates, flanges and hydraulics and we test and analyse your pool's water to ensure it's balanced.

Once every 4-5 years your pool requires a full service. The regeneration areas are thoroughly cleaned, ensuring your pool remains in good health with crystal-clear water.

During the swimming season we offer a consultation visit to assess pool plant growth and establishment.

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You're welcome to visit our natural swimming pool at Ellicar Gardens to see our work up close. You can explore our gardens too, and discuss your project and ideas with us.

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