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    Brick coping repair

    I have a 20 year old in-ground concrete pool with bullnose brick coping in southeast PA. A couple of years ago some hairline cracks opened in the joints between some of the bricks and water began damaging both the coping and the tile around the edge of the pool and the adjoining spa wall (see...
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    Limestone Pavers

    Hello, I know this is technically not a pool questions but I stumbled across another thread on the website and the advice seemed really helpful. We recently bought our first house and are doing a small limestone patio in Houston, about 500 sq/ft. We're using a 1" thick buff lueders limestone...
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    Help! I need clarification on materials to use under pool.

    I’m about to install my 18x33 above ground pool. The manual states after ground prep, “take material such as rock dust or fine mortar that can conform a solid, permanent base and deposit around perimeter of pool to a width of 24” and thickness of 2”. Compact and make sure there are no high or...
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    Guidance on regrout of stone coping

    New to TFP. Doing some research on a coping repair and ran across y'all. Have an inground gunite pool that we renovated about 16 years ago...located in Atlanta GA. While in the process of replacing my expansion joint, I discovered a loose coping stone along with a few areas where the...