Solar panels produce so much heat that the excess hot water has to be cooled again before running off back to the stream. There are two ways to do this:pass it between special stones that take the heat, or pass it through a body of water.
The body of water (otherwise known as a heated swimming pool) was chosen by acclaim. In the last few days I have learned about water and colour and light. If you want a pool in palest turquoise green, and who does not?, then the inside of the pool should be the colour of white sand. Light, reflection and water do the rest. The effect is added to by paving round the edge with pale gold stone, which is the local stone colour anyway, rather than the grey pietra serena, because the blue water and the yellow stone trick you into seeing green, don't they, which is very restful for the view from further away as well because there is no violent, blue shape screaming out of the ground,
The paved area is only 60 cms wide around the pool (I mean cooling body of water) and then the garden which is being planted up in the micro climate the warm water will create starts. Isn't that lovely? Gin and tonics and sprawling about on slatted furniture are up at the house; this is a serious body of water for swimming up and down very fast and doing those somersault turns at each end.
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