Caulk or grout between water tile and coping?

[Timmyb]

I live in Southern California. It stays warm and only about 11” of rain annually (if that matters). Should I grout my waterline tile completely or caulk the joint between tile and coping? I have clay brick coping. Appreciate it!

 

[ajw22]

Use the same grout you are using around the tiles.

 

[KJB1]

I’m in so cal and the grout above the tiles has a crack all the way around the pool. I have poured in place concrete coping. The builder is coming out to fix it a second time. I have seen brick hold up with grout in that spot though. Good luck.

 

[ajw22]

I’m in so cal and the grout above the tiles has a crack all the way around the pool. I have poured in place concrete coping. The builder is coming out to fix it a second time. I have seen brick hold up with grout in that spot though. Good luck.

You likely have cantilevered coping and should not have grout there. Where you grout depends on where your expansion joint is.

Expansion Joints and Coping - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[dswansonsb]

Apologies for hijacking the thread but... is an expansion joint needed between a poured in place copinng and a travertine paver deck with pavers set on a gravel & sand base? I'm in the middle of a build and the PB has not mentioned using an expansion joint.

 

[ajw22]

Apologies for hijacking the thread but... is an expansion joint needed between a poured in place copinng and a travertine paver deck with pavers set on a gravel & sand base? I'm in the middle of a build and the PB has not mentioned using an expansion joint.

Yes, there is no reason not to do an expansion joint at the interface of the coping and the pavers.

 

[Zmann]

I say it all depends on what locks it the travertine deck , if it is free floating on the sand base and is not locked in then the two can move independently of each other
what you want to avoid it the deck pushing on the coping, so if the travertine is sitting in a mortared in frame or up against an immovable object you want to isolate it from the coping

more than likely that is exactly what the link provided above states, lol

 

[KJB1]

You likely have cantilevered coping and should not have grout there. Where you grout depends on where your expansion joint is.

Expansion Joints and Coping - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

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You likely have cantilevered coping and should not have grout there. Where you grout depends on where your expansion joint is.

Expansion Joints and Coping - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

it is cantilevered concrete but was poured separately and has an expansion joint between the coping and deck. Still waiting for the PB to solve this.