I recently started removing my old aggregate pool deck and I made the mistake of assuming the pool coping was concrete with aggregate on top but the aggregate is the coping. The exposed tile is anywhere from 2-2.75in from the top of the pool deck. Shouldn’t the tile be installed uniformly the same height from the top of the pool deck. So in summary and I apologize if this is a dumb question but how do I install new coping with the overhang flush to to top of tile if the tile is not all the same height? Just an FYI, I eventually want to replace the tile when I refinish my pool but I don’t have the finances to do everything at once.
Pool coping options
- Thread starter Richirad
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I’m not sure, I’m thinking a bull nose paver. I really don’t want to redo the tile until my pool gets resurfaced in a few months. Would it be a problem if I do the coping now and the tile and resurfacing later?
Typically the process is coping, tile then plaster so I don’t see a problem other than debris getting into the pool during the process while it has water in it.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,641
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Do you understand where your expansion joint is between your pool structure and your deck?
Did you have cantilevered coping that you removed?
If you change to precast coping you need to create a proper expansion joint between the pool and the deck.
Without an expansion joing the movement of the deck will eventually crack your bond beam.
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Did you have cantilevered coping that you removed?
If you change to precast coping you need to create a proper expansion joint between the pool and the deck.
Without an expansion joing the movement of the deck will eventually crack your bond beam.
Expansion Joints and Coping - Further Reading
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Under the aggregate is was just a solid concrete slab, there was never an expansion joint and as a result there’s a crack at one end of the pool along the bond beam.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,641
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I’ve called several local pool companies and everyone says there going to come look at it and then they don’t show up. The two companies that I was referred to by friends were at least 6-8 weeks out. So that’s why I’m on this forum to get advice.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,641
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
With precast coping you will need to saw cut a expansion joint deep enough to get down to the soil and decouple the deck from the bond beam.
