Tile options for waterline tile.... bullnose or some other solution?

Mar 26, 2016
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Deltona, FL
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Plaster
Chlorine
Liquid Chlorine
We need to re-finish our pool -- get leaks solved (done), get pool deck leveled (scheduled), and get the pool shell resurfaced and the tile replaced.

Below is a pic of our current tile (awful). Some of it is popping off on one end due to the pool deck becoming unlevel, and we do have a leak at the waterline tiles because of about a dozen being missing, but we know that will be solved when the resurfacing and retiling job is completed.

However... we are trying to figure out about the tiles. Here is what we currently have:
Pool tile close.jpg

Here is part of the missing section:
Missing pool tiles.jpg

And here is the bullnose profile on our tiles:
Bullnose.jpg

Some bullnose tiles I see have the curved top but don't have a perfectly flat back; the back curves around, so I don't think it would work with what we have.

We're looking for ideas and options, suggestions and advise.

Obviously we don't have coping. Someone at a pool tile store in Orlando acted as though I was a third-class potential customer, said we had some inferior type of pool design, and that the pool would have to be replaced. What the $&@# ! That's obviously not happening. The variety of tile types is limited by the need for bullnose. Is there a solution to that? (other than replacing the pool).
 
Here are tiles from the NPT tile catalog. I just entered "bullnose" in the search there and it brought up all their options. Some of quite pretty!

I would expect the pool refinisher to have access to these, perhaps and more? I'd also go to another tile store- the one you went to had a ditz for a salesclerk.

Maddie ☮️
 
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