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A Step-By-Step Guide to Building a Natural Swimming Pool » iSeeiDoiMake

Natural swimming ponds, also called natural pools, are a wonderful way to recreate nature in your backyard. They offer a much lower maintenance alternative to conventional pools and allow you to swim in clean, chemical free water. Consider this comment from member, Emma O'Connor: 'I would love one of these. As a swimming teacher by trade I spend much time in chlorinated water…. not fun for skin, hair or eyes.' Wetlands have been purifying water for hundreds of millions of years so it should…

Transform your backyard with a small pond.

You can use your backyard pond for spending quality family time and have evening tea. The good thing about the backyard pond is that gurgling waterfalls are very much attractive and appealing. So if you haven`t decided on having a pond you must do it now.

Some people can make building things look so easy. This is good, since it let’s the rest of us have the guts to try something like building a swimming. But if you take a look at some of the DIY swimming pools people have made below, it does show you that anyone can build one …

The first step in building a backyard pond is to chose location and size of the pond. Next you'll want to use a hose to the desired shape and mark out

All gardeners want to be green -- except when it comes to water. Whether you have a birdbath, pond or a small reflecting pool, chances are good that at some point you'll have to deal with nuisance algae.

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My son has been wanting to make a fish/turtle pond. We bought the liner and pump. The rest of materials we already had. Rocks came from the river that he got himself with many trips with a backpack. First he lined out the shape and went down about 3 inches to start with. Then he dug out each level. Each level is for rocks to rest on for turtles to lay on. Dug deep in the middle for the fish in the winter. He laid the liner over it all and started with the middle and little by lit…

Besides, creating a beautiful Koi pond is itself a hobby for you. But it is not a create-and-forget sort of hobbies. Rather, you need to be extremely careful for the living beings inside your fondly created pond.