DIY Transformation to Organic Pool in 5 minutes

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A step by step transformation of a conventional outdoor pool into an Organic Pool. This was a completed by the owners and friends with the intermittent help of David Pagan Butler. The pool has a relatively small planted zone so an Olive Bioflter (invented by David Pagan Butler), provides additional water cleansing.
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@quentin818 4 жыл бұрын

It’s hard to believe they did all that, in 5 minutes

@tarcoles 4 жыл бұрын

I can pee in a pool too

@jeanlaikan8400 4 жыл бұрын

I think 5 minutes is the duration of the video. They showed all the process in a 5 minutes video

@hannahs8018 4 жыл бұрын

Jean Lai Kan r/wooooooooooosh

@twtwtravellingwiththewind5201 4 жыл бұрын

Load of fast people in you tube...

@GemmaRotgerMoll 4 жыл бұрын

@@jeanlaikan8400 it is called sarcasm

@Andrew85or 4 жыл бұрын

My pool that I left half full is looking pretty organic at the moment as well 😂

@PedramBastan 4 жыл бұрын

Then your halfway there.

@victor-lf5wd 3 жыл бұрын

You are lucky atleast you have a pool😅😅😅

@Babylon2060 3 жыл бұрын

😆

@ChaotiX1 4 жыл бұрын

"Dude whens the last time you cleaned your pool??" "Uhhm.... Its organic?"

@Rabidavid 4 жыл бұрын

Let's hope they don't have a well meaning neighbour, when they're away who tries to clean it with artificial detergents. A cold water pleci' might do the trick, although they'd be better off waiting for the nutrients to be taken up by the plants, and possibly using some water lilies to reduce the light levels to the internal surfaces of the pool - which I'd prefer over filling the pool with inflatables

@nicoleearley7464 4 жыл бұрын

ChaotiX Its a pond. :0

@WhiskeyToro 4 жыл бұрын

@@Rabidavid Not sure where you live where neighbors just feel the urge to climb over into your backyard, but where I come from it's called trespassing and would warrant an ass kicking from myself, or an ass chewing from my German shepherd. So, that neighbor better be a relative. Even then, they'd be responsible for paying for the damages,lol.

@courtneyjames8223 4 жыл бұрын

It looks gross

@WhiskeyToro 4 жыл бұрын

@@courtneyjames8223 that's because you're acclimated to what you think is "normal", which is chlorinated "blue" swimming water... super unhealthy. This is natural and, balanced and clean.

@CapeFearKoi 4 жыл бұрын

Would be nice to see more pools go this route. A couple of beautiful koi would be stunning. I swim with mine in the warmer months.

@alexotte6982 4 жыл бұрын

Cape Fear Koi that's exactly what I was thinking! Adding fish would make it even more beutiful!

@WhiskeyToro 4 жыл бұрын

In theory, yes..but then you're swimming in fish urine and shit. Regardless of the filter, you're taking mouthfuls of it. It's good as is.

@TetleyTV 4 жыл бұрын

Mike V wait until you hear about the ocean and rivers and lakes

@WhiskeyToro 4 жыл бұрын

@@TetleyTV wait, there's fish in the ocean, rivers, and lakes?! Tell me more!

@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 3 жыл бұрын

#fancycarp

@graphite2786 4 жыл бұрын

David, Ohio fish Rescue converted their indoor pool into a massive fish pond using the same techniques as an organic pool. Of course they needed a higher flow rate and filter bed ( livestock produce waste ) but they've succeeded beautifully with very low nitrate and no algae. They used pumps and the entire floor of the pool (gravelled 60 cm deep) as the bacteria bed + plants beds like these to take up phosphate, nitrate etc, also a waterfall for aeration. An added problem was that some of these giant fish are herbivores so no plants in the pool. ( Unfortunately the pet industry keeps selling fish that , when adult, grow to 2, 4, even 10 feet in length. So these guys rescue, home and rehome aquarium fish species that have outgrown their owners tanks.)

@alexotte6982 4 жыл бұрын

graphite love Ohio rescue. It would be a dream to go visit and swim witch monster fish!

@nandortanczos4956 4 жыл бұрын

You, sir, are an absolute legend. Maximum respect.

@Rabidavid 4 жыл бұрын

Dpb, thanks for adding another video. It's great to see how a standard swimming pool can be converted to a more naturalised swimming pond. I know a few people who have had swimming pools installed, only for them to complain about the cost of heating and running them, and that they take up so much of their gardens. Worst of all, when they're not in use, they don't benefit anyone or anything.

@miguelsoliz772 4 жыл бұрын

This is such amazing idea! I have done tons of research on making organic swimming pools from scratch. It never even crossed my mind to do what you guys have done. I really wish there was a timeline on the process, just out of curiosity. ✌️

@WegrennerX 3 жыл бұрын

Miguel Soliz 5 mins obviously[

@sarahconnor2259 3 жыл бұрын

Such a unique, relaxing, and organic video. I did not search for an organic pool but I really want one now.

@weareorigin 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone watching: YEAH pool employees: that was a long 5 minutes.

@y.m.i.n.6538 Жыл бұрын

This has to be the cleanest one ive seen well done on the right path where others get it wrong 👍

@andreasm2882 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful workmanship. Beautiful pool.

@Itsajourneything 4 жыл бұрын

my goodness this is amazing

@dugalreid8933 4 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year, Looking forward to more stories...

@victoriac6635 4 жыл бұрын

Remind me of my old childhood home, man i loved that place

@D1dayzz 4 жыл бұрын

Wish I had something like this in my backyard, well maybe that this big but yea definitely an organic pool is awesome.

@ac158 3 жыл бұрын

My friend's father made a giant pond with a sand and gravel Creek that float around it to a waterfall which aerated it for the crappies and the fish they decided to grow in there the bottom was lined with sand and gravel it was beautiful and it was always crystal clear with an aerator going in the winter time no special filters just ground water being pumped through the sand and gravel the water was recirculated through the man-made circular sand and gravel Creek it is beautiful

@2ne14eva9 4 жыл бұрын

Green water reminds me of alligators which I’m not living for it

@sanchaxi3987 4 жыл бұрын

Haha does that mean you would rather swim with sharks? ✌😁

@evanfurstenburg 4 жыл бұрын

blackjacks rise

@Mrsstick07 4 жыл бұрын

That's stunning. 💞 x

@pilkyish 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely transformation👍🏻

@benpaynter 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome conversion!!!

@lillibethswan8533 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work!!

@agplay2290 4 жыл бұрын

Spectacular!!!

@Bansheekilr 4 жыл бұрын

Looks so beautiful, I’m sure I’d get over the green algae appearance. I’m just used to seeing pools that fake blue color.

@foyezali969 4 жыл бұрын

Such a wonderful project...

@timredfern1282 4 жыл бұрын

Looks amazing 👍

@MoeSpice 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly looks really good with the plants

@michellebyrom6551 3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't work without the plants and gravel. Its a whole ecosystem.

@aquagardening5803 4 жыл бұрын

I am following your channel from long time...... Awesome video

@buteobuteo 3 жыл бұрын

Liked for the soundtrack, one of my favorites

@toriam15 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is the pool of my dreams.

@perraineric3952 3 жыл бұрын

Magnifique et très judicieux pour avoir changé la piscine . Bravo

@WhiskeyToro 4 жыл бұрын

Looks awesome and love that it's natural and clean. A tip, there's non-toxic, organic blue dye you can use to achieve the clean blue look.

@psteven1458 3 жыл бұрын

Utterly gorgeous 😍

@rwksummit 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome job guys

@zeitistweg. 4 жыл бұрын

Sehr, sehr schön 😍♥️

@beautyfrye562 4 жыл бұрын

This is very different but beautiful ❤️😍

@ParadigmUnkn0wn 3 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of an organic pool, and they're beautiful. I couldn't handle the thought of a brain eating amoeba with a 99% fatality rate, though. AFAIK any temperate freshwater environment is fair game for them. If there's some reason that such amoebas can't exist in a pool like this, please let me know because I'd really love to build one of these and forgo the toxic pool chemicals.

@mitchr85 3 жыл бұрын

It depends on where you live, it looks like. The CDC has a page about this subject and it looks like they don’t do well in cold temperatures. www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/pathogen.html

@johnmason1239 Жыл бұрын

Glad I read this, likely it would have to be a badly filtered pool to run that risk, looks like the pool on this video needs its water replaced. Another natural pool with the same benefits& less- risk of brain eaters is a salt water pool

@marciamariabressanelli7853 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, congratulations..

@rafaelhernandez5963 4 жыл бұрын

Wow so beautiful

@antitheist9976 Жыл бұрын

Stunning 🙂

@zoolskim 4 жыл бұрын

awesome, can you share more information about cost and system?

@stephvincent296 3 жыл бұрын

I know you posted this comment a year ago lol but this video straight away reminded me of "cycling" a fish tank. The levels of rock and plants provide detoxification of ammonia that would build then get "cycled" by the biological filter in the substrate. You might get some alge but that biological filter will stop any sort of nasties that are bad for you (or fish) building up. I can only assume that green plastic thing in the filter outtake (maybe even the inlet too??) and that's where all the nasty brown stuff is ending up, like in the filter of a fish tank. After it is pumped down the rock. Idk I just thought this method was so interesting I wanted to comment 😃😃

@bobjob3632 3 жыл бұрын

Organic pools are exempted from taxes in France. They are considered as decorative pools.

@goba9064 3 жыл бұрын

우와 줄스님

@Diamondusa7 3 жыл бұрын

It has water in it.

@TedjoMoelyono 4 жыл бұрын

Wow amazing 👍

@traceyralph1537 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic how beautiful

@user-pf6eb8fs3c 4 жыл бұрын

Вы молодцы, ребята. 👍

@Christopher19990 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@waynejones750 3 жыл бұрын

Love this.

@Satters 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@Joedirt5 3 жыл бұрын

I can't stop watching this video

@sunflower62100 4 жыл бұрын

Why do I feel like this is heaven for mosquito and larvae

@kylelewis9377 4 жыл бұрын

I’m curious if there’s enough circulation to prevent their egg laying?

@DanielMGarcia69 4 жыл бұрын

yea I was thinking about doing my own organic pool then I remembered I live in a tropical area and cannot forget about mosquito larvae issues. Hopefully, there will be someone that can confirm this.

@mr.t2993 4 жыл бұрын

Overtime there will be insects in the pool who will eat those mosquito larvae. And having more surface agitation at the beginning will help as well.

@urwholefamilydied 3 жыл бұрын

agreed... a small running pond where it's always circulating is one thing. This just seems like a pool without chlorine that has a very slow circulation. Add plants and call it "organic".

@seanfyodorovich5230 3 жыл бұрын

@@urwholefamilydied He addresses the mosquito issue in other videos. The circulation is actually more than it looks.

@raphlvlogs271 3 жыл бұрын

you did a great job.

@carlosnestorarmanthceballo9068 3 жыл бұрын

extraordinario!! todo un ejemplo para todos nosotros,,,

@carlamarlene2927 3 жыл бұрын

I love it!

@NonSequitur404 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I wonder how they deal with algal blooms during extended periods of sunny days.

@grahamegavin421 2 жыл бұрын

If the gravel filters are big enough they could handle it.

@hetcer 2 жыл бұрын

i think how it works is if the plants they installed use up all the nutrients, then there is no left over nutrients to allow the algae to grow.

@michelleeggleston3259 3 жыл бұрын

amazing!!!

@geeftw69 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet video

@shinigamilee5915 3 жыл бұрын

These pools can be dangerous if done improperly. This pool was done perfectly!👍

@willthelucky9582 3 жыл бұрын

This is the perfect swimming pool.

@TrellWest 4 жыл бұрын

I love this

@redfirebelle 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@ripme6616 4 жыл бұрын

Sensational best pool ever

@davidmaynard84 4 жыл бұрын

Nice 🌱

@lunark2440 Жыл бұрын

Hi- love this it's so beautiful. Would appreciate if you could take some time to share any difficulties you had with the water? Any outbreaks of algae when starting? Did it flocculate at all? Watching videos like these, I don't see many people sharing the trials they went through while building, which i find to be extremely helpful to those building/having just built our own. Thanks :)

@ericbourdieu8668 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastique !

@mlnfish 4 жыл бұрын

would love more detail on filtration and sealant..

@jocaire 4 жыл бұрын

me too!

@Rabidavid 4 жыл бұрын

You'd best check out dpb's previous videos. The floating filtration unit you saw at the beginning is his Olive powered by compressed air. The filtration used on this system is pretty standard to all his ponds using gravel filter beds interplanted with plants to take out the nutrients from the pool / swimming pond, using air stones to uplift water from the planted beds, so recycling water through them and aerating the water. It's just a shame they haven't integrated a few fish to feed off the algae in the pool, altho I suspect that this could cause a greater amount of waste that would need to be siphoned off the bottom of the pool, as fish waste often sinks.

@pedrootaviomaiagarcia9701 3 жыл бұрын

@@Rabidavid The fish eat the daphnia, which eats the algae away, plus they generate more nutrients for the algae, thus causing the collapsing of the system if you don't use more expensive filtration systems. His system don't use fish to be kept relatively cheap.

@alesandrabiasello 3 жыл бұрын

I think they used stucco to seal the pool in the beginning. Maybe

@alesandrabiasello 3 жыл бұрын

Or a lime plaster

@barbi9804 4 жыл бұрын

Hermosaaa me fascina 🥰🥰🥰

@manojkumar-be2wl 3 жыл бұрын

Super 👌

@asbjrn1151 4 жыл бұрын

Nice, the same music as Foo The FlowerHorn uses in his vids. I like it. I have seen ur old vids on how to make sure no dirt or fallen debris remains get into ur pond. I think it was a nice solution, but you can also just buy some stainless steel beerfilters on amazon which u can put onto the rainpipes so that the water is filtered before going into ur ponds. I love ur work. :)

@TristanMorrow 4 жыл бұрын

No ferts!

@asbjrn1151 4 жыл бұрын

@@TristanMorrow Sure, no dirt/ferts/nutrition LoL

@sourabhdubey4465 Жыл бұрын

At 3:33 I like this video because of his diving 👏

@aleechaadams2691 3 жыл бұрын

Ok....so explain to more about this pool it WONDERFUL why green water.🥰

@Tracys_Little_Patch_of_Dirt 4 жыл бұрын

Looks much more inviting than the ugly square thing that was there before.

@anilaballa7975 4 жыл бұрын

Great Job!!!😄😆😄😄😆😄😆😄😆😀

@charron115 4 жыл бұрын

At least when longhaired people swim in that their hair isnt crunchy by the time they're done swimming.

@kyfarm 3 жыл бұрын

We had a huge pool when I was a kid and we were in it all the time. Did you know chlorine turns dark hair blue and blond hair green? LOL True story.

@2020Dreamlife 4 жыл бұрын

Talk about living. Wow

@themontephone875 4 жыл бұрын

Love how the new pool is speechless

@videosofpratik 4 жыл бұрын

You won the subscribe 👍🏻

@isaiahsspontaneouscontent9111 3 жыл бұрын

The green water reminded me of the Reno 9-11 gator episode 😅 but that is a beautiful pool 👍👍

@veervenkat9273 11 ай бұрын

You could probably add some fish. Nice modification 👍👍👍👍👍

@nolomoussy9407 3 жыл бұрын

these comments are insane,... the water is visibly clear and circulating through different draining systems, a green tint to water doesnt make it gross

@raydreamer7566 3 жыл бұрын

Green does mean life. But we are dealing with a generation that thinks Dandelions or bad and unrightfully. As a kid I swam in all kinds of natural pool ponds. It was only the man made dug holes that were too full of algae to swim in.

@kristine8338 4 жыл бұрын

I am back on your Channel ❣️it feels Good 🌀

@mr.t2993 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! .. may I know what kind of drainage pipe you use in that regeneration / gravelled area for filtering? If you can give a link where I can purchase it.

@bigchiefmsu 4 жыл бұрын

Another excellent pool, David. Congratulations! I remember seeing pictures of this one before. As James commented below, why did these clients choose a beige sealant (?) as opposed to a darker color to reflect the light to warm the pool?

@Bansheekilr 4 жыл бұрын

Good point

@kevinjmellis 4 жыл бұрын

So beautiful. What do you seal the concrete with?

@TheOriginalJenafire 2 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering if painting the walls yellow causes to to appear more green. I saw a video of a natural pool with white walls and the water had a naturally blue color (reflecting the sky maybe?) Blue and yellow do make green so it would stand to reason.

@lorinlewis133 4 жыл бұрын

Hippie paradise!

@Sendit123 5 ай бұрын

Mega, who wouldnt want one beside their home

@8platypus 4 жыл бұрын

A water wheel is a better way to aerate the water compared to a pump, and easy to clean too.

@bunnylish0us 4 жыл бұрын

Very beautiful! Do you guys have issues with mosquitos?

@mikehamman7307 3 жыл бұрын

Soooo... you made a pond. Nice.

@ivyclark70 4 жыл бұрын

Looks great, and thanks for sharing the process in a summarised format. But how long did the transformation actually take you? We’re thinking of doing something similar, so I’m curious of how you planned it too. Thanks 🙏

@Wayniesgirl 11 ай бұрын

Good luck getting an answer 😒

@user-oz2rf3qh9p 3 жыл бұрын

Живут же люди , молодцы

@MISSIONRIDERMOTOVLOG 11 ай бұрын

that must have been a product of careful planning. thanks

@allyyyyyyp 4 жыл бұрын

How do they deal with eutrophication/runoff? Even with the waterfall and plants I wonder if that’s enough. Beautiful concept though.

@georgeharvey3062 4 жыл бұрын

So I’m a little confused. Does the pool stay clean because of the plants? I see you can swim in it like a pond. Can fish be added? Will they affect the pond water quality. I’d love to do it to my pool. I really hate that thing.