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How to Create a Stock Tank Pool

STAY COOL ALL SUMMER WITH YOUR VERY OWN POOL

Article by Kate Baxendale

Photography by Stock Images + Provided

When summer starts heating up, cooling off in the water is your best bet. Wouldn't it be great if you had a pool in your own backyard? You can! A stock tank pool is an affordable and low-maintenance alternative to in-ground pools that you can create yourself. In the article How to Create a DIY Stock Tank Pool: The Ultimate Guide, Rooted Revival walks you through each step.

One hot summer day, I turned to the love of my life and said those three little words that forever changed our lives:

Stock. Tank. Pool.

“I love you” is great too. But when it’s 100+ degrees, you’re doing physical labor all day to renovate a dilapidated property and you have no air conditioning, “stock tank pool” takes the cake!

Two years ago, we moved into our fixer-upper home. During our first summer here, we were working crazy long days renovating the house, reviving the garden area and building a hay barn. It was hot. We were sweaty. And our home is the only one I know of in the area that has absolutely no air conditioning.

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