Coping suggestions?

[JenWass]

Hi all,

Deciding on coping and I really dont like the fullnose rounded look.. Want something more square but with a SWCG I wanted to avoid natural stones.. My pool has a bench for hanging out.. What would be my best option for coping? I dont want it to scratch up people's backs and arms, but I want a nice modern look.. It is a grecian shape pool with nice sharp corners, which i love the angle of and want to be able to keep...

Thanks! Donating now as this forum has been so helpful to me!

Jen

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[YippeeSkippy]

Are you going with a cement deck or pavers? I know cement can be stained/stamped to mimic stone and the coping can be designed to stand out differently. There are various edges you can get in the cement coping but I don't know the names of the shapes. Ask your builder or cement guys for their advice as they do them all the time. They may have lots of ideas.

Maddie

 

[needsajet]

I like limestone and travertine, square edge - they call it 'tumbled' here so it's a slightly softened edge, but the face is vertical. Nice light color so it's easy on the bare feet It's not as nice on the toes as a bullnose for diving in, but it's stylish these days.

I don't share any of the concerns about saltwater and natural stone. I think that concern is entirely bogus. I would definitely never run my pool water at low pH with calcite based stone, or any other finish for that matter! Where you have freeze/thaw, you probably don't want anything flaky. You can get precast straight edge coping in various colors. Try googling 'precast straight edge pool coping' for lots of images of precast concrete coping.

 

[riley00dog]

Needsajet are you in Australia? We are currently choosing coping and paving and leaning towards tumbler travertine with the tumbled edge on the coping. I agree about the concerns with salt water. I don't think it will be an issue either.

 

[needsajet]

Welcome to TFP! Yep, I'm in Australia. I hope you start your own new build thread, riley - pool build threads with pics are much loved around here

 

[riley00dog]

Thank you! We're hoping to sign a contact within the next week. It's taken a couple of months to get to this point. Looking at a mid Jan dig. Hoping to start a thread once we get going [emoji4]