Hey ya'll. We recently bought a house with a large indoor pool (pics). The deck is blue indoor-outdoor carpet and although it's in pretty good shape and was well applied, it takes a couple of days to fully dry out after a big party and smells a little like a wet dog.
The trouble part though is the bullnose. It is an aluminum piece that in integrated into the poured concrete deck and it is part of the mechanism that holds the liner. From all that, it seems as if this pool was meant to have indoor-outdoor carpet from day one.
We could resurface the concrete or do trowel down rubber but how would we handle this aluminum bullnose? And, does the trowel down rubber drain well?
We had a local pool guy look at it and he suggested using a grinder to square off the aluminum bullnose piece (would not affect the liner attachment) and then tile (and wrap the tile over the cut off bullnose. He seemed very comfortable with that idea and said he has done it before. If we used thin concrete pavers (1") or calibrated stone (3/4"-1") he suggested using a router to round over the edge.
Here are pics and details. Thanks in advance for the help.
Details: 1998 purpose built 1800 sf building with 45,000 galloon pool and 850 sf deck. Hayward Aquarite SWG. Slide has been removed.
The trouble part though is the bullnose. It is an aluminum piece that in integrated into the poured concrete deck and it is part of the mechanism that holds the liner. From all that, it seems as if this pool was meant to have indoor-outdoor carpet from day one.
We could resurface the concrete or do trowel down rubber but how would we handle this aluminum bullnose? And, does the trowel down rubber drain well?
We had a local pool guy look at it and he suggested using a grinder to square off the aluminum bullnose piece (would not affect the liner attachment) and then tile (and wrap the tile over the cut off bullnose. He seemed very comfortable with that idea and said he has done it before. If we used thin concrete pavers (1") or calibrated stone (3/4"-1") he suggested using a router to round over the edge.
Here are pics and details. Thanks in advance for the help.
Details: 1998 purpose built 1800 sf building with 45,000 galloon pool and 850 sf deck. Hayward Aquarite SWG. Slide has been removed.
I bet it was fun to go down!
