Natural swimming pools
Sketch your pool, pick the features, and see what it costs to build it yourself, with help, or done for you. Then take the full parts list and build it.
The designer
This is your swim zone. The green planted area goes beside or around it on the plan, and you can drag it into place.
Shale is full of tiny pores, so it holds far more water-cleaning bacteria than gravel does.
Move and size waterfalls on the plan. Pick how each one sounds here.
Each deck or seating spot on your plan gets its own surface and shade.
Rules vary by city. An automatic cover can replace a fence in some places, so check yours.
Your estimate
Every option uses the same pool and the same parts. What changes is who does the work.
Snap one or two photos of your yard from where you'd stand to admire the pool. We'll place this exact design into your photo and email it to you.
Utah only
Feel the water, hear the waterfall, see the plants at work. Test swims are by invitation for families planning a build: book your design call, then request a swim and Jason will review it.
Parts list
Your next step
Most people start with the parts list or a call. Pay for what you need, nothing else.
Written from this exact plan. Paste into Grok Imagine.
Why we do this
I filmed the build start to finish. Twelve summers later it's where our family spends its evenings: kids jumping off the dock, lilies blooming, the waterfall running. Everything in the designer comes from what that pool has taught me.
Straight talk
Water can cloud up in spring and clear as plants and tiny grazers wake up. That swing is normal, and it settles.
Algae gets a head start while plants fill in. You net it out by hand, keep fertilizer and runoff away, and the plants win as they mature.
Western tap water runs alkaline, and high pH feeds algae. We test it, skip rock that raises pH, and size the system for it.
Empty the skimmer weekly. Each fall cut back plants. Each year clean the biofilter and re-seed bacteria. You never drain it.