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How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool

The Complete Guide to Healthy Swimming at Home

Author: Wolfram Kircher, Andreas Thon and Thomas Zlobinsky  

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Natural swimming pools are cleaned by plants instead of chlorine so they are gentle on the eyes and healthy for swimmers. This book describes how to build a pool to suit your site and maintain the nutrient level in perfect balance to keep the algae down and the water sparkling.

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Natural swimming pools are cleaned by plants instead of chlorine so they are gentle on the eyes and healthy for swimmers. This book describes how to build a pool to suit your site and maintain the nutrient level in perfect balance to keep the algae down and the water sparkling.

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Natural swimming pools are the biggest news for gardeners since green roofs. The water is cleaned by aquatic plants instead of chlorine so it is gentle on the eyes and healthy for swimmers. These self-cleaning ecosystems are beautiful to look at and provide a valuable water source for dragonflies, honeybees and other beneficial insects. Wolfram Kircher has researched extensively into the low-nutrient-dependent plants that are needed for the surrounds of natural swimming pools and the high-nutrient-dependent plants that are required for the regeneration zone. In the book he demonstrates how to maintain the nutrient level in perfect balance to keep down the algae down and water sparkling. The authors have installed pools for decades and trialled different systems and plants to come up with the best possible designs. This book provides tried-and-trusted advice on a feature that is increasingly in demand among aspirational, eco-minded gardeners and designers.

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Critic Reviews

"It is a well laid out, detailed and useful book for anyone wanting to learn more about natural pools and I only wish I'd read it before building my own." -- Ben Law Permaculture Magazine If you have every tackled a DIY project for the first time, you will know that having a good set of instructions is critical if you want it to work properly and look spectacular. We get lots of enquiries from people across the world who are keen to build their own DIY Clearwater Revival

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About the Author

Wolfram Kircher is an international expert on natural swimming pools and he teaches planting design at "Anhalt University", Bernburg, Germany. His research into low-maintenance naturalistic plantings on extreme substrates, which made an important contribution to "new German style" planting, puts habitat planting in reach of amateur gardeners. He lectures widely. Andreas Thon works as a consultant in the field of irrigation and water purification and is a trained landscape architect who has constructed several natural swimming pools.

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Product Details

Publisher
Filbert Press
Published
31st March 2016
Pages
328
ISBN
9780993389214

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