SWIMMING PONDS part 2 | Natural Pools & Recreation Ponds
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- SWIMMING PONDS part 2 | Natural Pools & Recreation Ponds
A question I ALWAYS get, "How much does this cost?" Today, we are looking at part 2 of our tour of Recreation Ponds, Swim Ponds, Natural Pools and talking about how much they cost. Also, we'll go through what it's like to live with and take care of one of these recreation ponds with our good friend, Alan Decker from Decker's Pondscapes in Pattersonville, NY
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Atlantis Water Gardens is located at 3017 Route 10 in Denville (Morris County), NJ (New Jersey) with a full pond supply store and specializes in the design, maintenance and construction of backyard fish ponds, boulder waterfalls, fountainscapes, decorative water features, natural looking ponds, koi fish ponds and outdoor goldfish ponds for backyard landscapes.
I’m glad you guys are doing these series of videos. I have been convinced for sometime now that this is the future of swimming pools. As people grow more environmentally conscious they will see The benefits in interacting with a natural ecosystem habitat, not only for personal enjoyment but a satisfaction of giving back to nature.
💗Well said.
Incredible as always
Thanks, Kathleen!
HEAVEN ON EARTH
Beautiful! Anything that brings you more joy to your house and life is well worth it.
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Rec pond for the win 🤙. They look so good in the backyard absolutely love em...
Yess!
Good frog call... the night of the spade foots. Please, in the winter, show a short vid. I’m patient... it gives me something to look forward too.
Allan is my Hero! His rec pond is awesome I wish I could afford a rec pond like that.👍👊💪
Alan is awesome! Go subscribe to his channel 🤙
I absolutely love all three of the recreational ponds! They are beautiful water features that are also fun, functional, and environmentally friendly too!
Just think Alan, you have helped your client tap into her inner Frog Whisperer➡️ for which I'm sure she had no idea she was! 🤣Lol🤣
We love them too!
If your going to spend money on a pool I think going natural is the way to go, it's like vacation at home reminds me of going to lakes with family as a kid, just so beautiful to have such harmony with nature, awesome stuff!!!
I have 2 school aged kids, and a Portuguese Water Dog ,and we would all LOVE this so much more than a pool. So gorgeous and relaxing.
Rec-Ponds is something I've just learned on this channel. Will be investigating more and eventually getting one.
Well done
Unique ❤
Love from India...
Thanks, Shivam 💪
Thank you for this super informative video! This really takes the mystery out of the process for folks. Beautiful ponds!!
I love this one, the thought of swimming without chlorine would be great. Never afford it, but lovely!
I love every one of them! I had a huge pool for 5 years, I'm allergic to chlorine and not a big swimmer, so I went in maybe 5 times in 5 years during a heat wave and felt awful after!! It was a pain to constantly clean and maintain and very expensive when things went wrong. And for most of the year it had an ugly black cover and was a total eye-sore so we never used our outdoor space once the cover went on in the fall. And yes, it broke my heart every time I found a dead frog in the skimmer!!! But I LOVE being around water and I love wild life!! THIS would have been HEAVEN!!! I would never waste my money putting in another sterile, chemical filled pool but I would beg, borrow or steal to put something like this in and enjoy it all year round. Especially for those of us up north where we have around 3 months pool time, this makes so much more sense and is so much healthier for humans and the environment!! If I still had a pool I would convert it to a pond!! A++++
Yes! All those things! 👍👍💪
That's my new backyard in my dreams perfect
MAN!!!!!!!! This is the coolest thing i have ever seen. I will tell you I have watch sooooo many pond vids and nobody can KEEP UP with you guys. One day I hope to have enough money to do what you guys do so well. OH Yeah! by the way your prices are more than fair. I'm in Pittsburg, Pa and have seen ponds cost way more and don't deliver 20% of what you guys do.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Your Rec Ponds are way over the top in design and usability...and year round use to boot. This pond is so clean and clear!! Wish you could convince Kenan to use his circulation jets on his pond, it would be so much more clear! I've shown several friends your Rec Pond builds since they want pools...barf, when a rec pond would better suit their needs...! 👍👍👍😄
Love this.
These remind me of my natural aquarium
Love it all
You made what I always dreamed of. I had a frog who adopted me. She came from nowhere to live in the flowers on my balcony. No pond at all, not even water around, but she stays here for years. I had a lot of flowers but still nothing for her to get in the water. She let me touch her when she was taking sun on my guardrail. I would have been happy to offer her such a good place. I say her, because Frog is a feminine word in French but maybe it was a boy 😀. She was a cute little green frog singing few minutes every evening.
I probably won't have that ever but who knows
did you know, i downloaded this video and watching all day long.
absolutely i would like build at my backyard. i mean actually at the center inside of the home.
i am living in Bali, Indonesia.
I loved all three of them, very tranquil to sit around
Thank you! They are tranquil to sit around.
@@AtlantisWaterGardens you're welcome... keep up the great work, I enjoy your channel. I'm getting inspired to make me a small water feature by my porch.
I loved watching two great artists showcase some beautiful works of art.
I love all of them. You work is amazing. I look forward to having a pond for myself and our home.
Can't wait to see your pond!! These are just incredible 🤩😍
nice work.
These recreation ponds are so desirable. I would love to have one in my backyard but like you mentioned in this video you're bringing nature to your backyard and there are so many things going on unlike a standard pool. Unfortunately for me, living in Newark NJ, I don't want to attract the wrong animals lol. I am hoping in time with enough knowledge and experience I can determine if a recreation pond is something I can pursue. But this video is so enticing and would make anyone consider a rec pond. Love the video !!
Wins All Around! Fantastic looking ponds. LOVE the negative edge treatments... Girl who talks to frogs;) Not only are these ponds a big investment into your properties & without saying, huge in peoples lives. But in no small way it's also an investment in giving back to the nature by providing a living Oasis to wildlife in what might otherwise be a sterile environment. I am SOOOO JELLY! Excellent work guy's!
Exactly Anthony! Make sure you sub to Alan, he builds awesome water features!
Very nice, I really like the first one better, i know the second one lost a lot of plants to the drought, but that first one in this video 👌 Can't wait to see it soften with age
The client interviews are really good! Interesting to note that they all are happy they just followed the advice of the pros! Great Swim ponds Decker! Nice vid from the Vlog pro Jaak!
Thanks Scott!
I love Mike’s pond
Very cool, would love one of these.
Beautiful work! Puts the "blue square" to shame. Liked and subscribed to you both!
Nice work I like the guy from Vaughn being from Oshawa Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 but the guy from Australia no shoes amazing
I’ve dreamed of a rec pond b4 I seen them done.. bc I love wild life and always seen the most wild life by lakes and rivers in Az... so I’ve always dreamed of having one.. but don’t have the land... it would be filled with all types of fish and. Plants.. with nectar plants and feeders around it... one day one day!!!
Love the design! Amazing pond!!!!
Thanks Baruch!
Allan great work and when jaak didn't do that much video either but Greg the pond guy got jaak rolling on videos
That pool is lovely. Planting trees nearby for shade may reduce the evaporation rate.
Very helpful videos. Thanks, 👍
Thinking about building a swim pond in our yard, here in Maine.
Last one was definitely my favorite. I loved the deeper section with the large jumping-off rock at the edge and the circular seating section around the deepest area. When you talk about having to pay for bacteria for maintenance though... Isn't this just a big fish tank? The nitrogen cycle does the majority of the work keeping the water clean along with a media filter (gravel/sand). All you really need to jump start the nitrogen cycle is ammonia and and enough course surface area to hold the bacteria, then the bacteria will breed and multiply from there. If you add fish to the system, either in the main pool or an attached (much smaller) secondary pond, the fish will add ammonia for you. All you have to do is feed them and they will be a beautiful (or tasty) addition to the pool and save money on additives.
I want to build one myself that would be great
awesome learning so much. I am building a new house in about a 1.5 yrs and want incorporate a massive 65' waterfall with a total drop of 40" into a huge pond. Not sure if just Koi or rec pond, can't get my wife to consider the rec pond she wants to build a regular pool next to pond as she loves sound of waterfall of current pond i have that i built 22 yrs ago.
Dan
Wow, nice wrap up! Auditory Cut Off, it's a thing!
You guys are both awesome. Best of the best 👊
Alan is better for sure! Make sure you subscribe to his channel!
Where planning on installing a rec pond / natural pool on the family homestead we love the one in the video
I need a rec pond in my life!!
We all do!
These ponds are AMAZING! I love how natural they look. Now all I need is to win the lottery so I can afford one, off to buy my ticket.
Love this series!
It was a lot of fun!
Good stufffffff!!!!!!
I love the infinity edge
❤️this great job!
So are you able to show a video of how and when you put in the plumbing w/ sizes , do you wrap that in after or as your setting the rocks and what does your intake hose look like and placement …???
What a great episode Jaak, I am just starting out and are about to be certified over here in Australia and natural pools are something I would love to be able to work towards installing. They really are awesome. 👍🏽👌🏽
This is my wife’s account 👍🏽
Cheers Todd.
Awesome! Good luck Todd 🤙
welcome to the crew Todd!
Sorry jaak. I love you man but I'm goin with alan. Lol. The both of you guys are true artists. And just down to earth. Awesome.
Yeah, Alan is Awesome! Go sub to his channel for sure 👍
Some people mentioned in the comments on the first video that they were surprised they weren't required to have a fence around the pool, in the second one here being in the middle of a low density neighborhood I'm even more shocked they don't have one.
It’s not considered a swimming pool. Ponds have different requirements
The recreational ponds are absolutely beautiful. I'm just wondering how do you keep or maintain it in winter especially in the tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT) or in the Northeast/ New England area where the winter is harsher?
We shut them down for the winter usually
@@AtlantisWaterGardens do you have to drain it in the winter or just shut down filters and let it freeze?
You are a genius! Love the structural design, not only practical but beautiful. Yup, I’m redesigning my backyard plans to include a Rec Pond in the center…. Does Alan travel to RI? 🧐
Yes, we both do! We’re actually doing a Rec Pond project together in Massachusetts this summer 💪💪
@@AtlantisWaterGardens Do you guys travel internationally to other countries?
@@fullydetta5859 Check out our Spain videos!
I love the swim ponds! Where are you going to put a swim pond? Your brothers yard?
Wouldn't that be nice?
These look amazing, except I live in Florida so the only concern I would have is alligators and copper heads. Frogs fish no prob. just don't want to have 911 on speed dial just to hang out by my pool/pond.
83k? I did this to my own backyard yard and made my own nice ass pond similar size for way less with my tractor digging for free. (You can rent a tractor for 1k-2k a week). Got nice liner for maybe 3k plus filtration for like another 5k. Boulders and gravel another like 3k. THAT BUILD WAS WAY TO EXPENSIVE. But stunning none the less
It's about quality of work, deman, and supply of needed materials I suppose
Bruhhhhh this is exactly what I want when I get a house. How do these hold up to harsh winters? I live in the Midwest and I decided 10 years ago if I could have a house I'd want one of these.
They hold up great
Hi yall- love these natural swimming pools! Mind expanding concerning some of the filtration you use? Did you all use a pool or pond filter? Perhaps I missed it if it was mentioned in the VID? Also- is there a UV light system?
In part one they mentioned that there is a "wetland" or "bog" area where the water flows through and is naturally filtered.
I now have a new found love - I want a natural swimming pool. I am in Australia and we might have different safety considerations. What happens with fencing and small children?
Patrick Handley at Waterscapes Australia would be a great resource for you!
Very nice ! What products do you use for maintenance? What products and for what, what kind of bacteria? Thanks in advance.
We use Aquascape Bacteria
Can these be heated for year round use in cold climates (Utah).
It would effect the ecosystem. It's not something we've done.
Would you all at Atlantis think of doing a natrial pond and waterfall in M.N?
Sounds cool
Price was 165k east coast prices I guess I I northern ca you would add on another third if not half of original price ontop of that 165k. What is upkeep cost yearly compared to a pool?
It’s probably very similar upkeep costs to a pool but less work. If we go to CA to build, yes it costs more
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Awesome episode... stunning designs, great music selection, timing and filming... you're the man!! I've learned more in the last 2 years to adapt my designs than the previous 15 years. Thank you!
Fantastic work on all three. Just wondering, is there a reason why there aren't any planting shelves incorporated in any of these designs?
The planting is done on the margins behind the boulders
@@AtlantisWaterGardens thanks Jaak. It's interesting how Europeans and Australians seem to include a lot more submerged and emergent plants in their natural pools compared to the marginal and external bog approach in the US.
It might be a culture thing. Americans don’t like to touch plants 😜
@@AtlantisWaterGardens you know our lillies and reeds don't chase us here is Australia right? (Just the black snakes which eat the frogs which live in the reeds 👍)
id much rather swim where you can see life thrive rather than a pool free of life or when something that once was alive tries to make use of it it winds up dead from drinking from the pool or just going into it.
I didn't see the in line pumps on those. Where they just waterfall pumps?
They were inline pumps as well
Ok this seems feasible. Stamp of approval from a poor person. 😅🥲
How does it stay clean without filter and chlorine? The green doesnt overtake?
It’s a natural biological filter
Is there a reason why you use predominantly flat rocks in the creation of your pond and waterfalls? I just started following the channel and I'm seeing the trend throughout your videos. Just curious.
Flat tops you mean?
Atlantis Water Gardens yes, flat tops.
I'd run some crawdads in that.
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How much if you have a pond already and can you come to Indiana?
That's a very broad question but travel projects generally start at 100K and go up from there
So I have been calling around and no one in Texas builds these. What is wrong with everyone?
Let’s talk!
What do I think of these rec ponds?
Me thinks Hubby needs to get a second, & probably a 3rd, job! 🤦🏼♀️😂🤷🏼♀️
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With a pond like this are mosquitos an issue?
No. Has a skimming system, so no stagnant water
@@AtlantisWaterGardens Thanks
So what state does Allen work in???
NY
Are there financing options available by CAC’s?
Yes 👍
No mosquitos?
No sir, not from the pond
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can i get info on alan
Decker’s Pondscapes from Pattersonville, NY
Price for the small one
$85K
do snakes come arond
Possibly
@@AtlantisWaterGardens thank you
Pond costs as much as my house....
I’ve dreamed of a rec pond b4 I seen them done.. bc I love wild life and always seen the most wild life by lakes and rivers in Az... so I’ve always dreamed of having one.. but don’t have the land... it would be filled with all types of fish and. Plants.. with nectar plants and feeders around it... one day one day!!!