Bluestone Coping and Heat - need advice

[trivetman]

We settled today on bluestone coping for our renovation job...but now my wife is convinced it is going to burn all the skin off our bare hands and feet. Is she right? We are in SE Pennsylvania. The pool gets a lot of sun.

the other option is to stay with the cast concrete which we currently have. That hasnt burnt the feet despite the direct sun.

any bluestone coping people out there to give some advice?

 

[bmoreswim]

It’s hot, but with water it’s quickly standable. Don’t change your mind because of the heat. It’s usually wet if you are in and out of the pool. Otherwise you will likely have flip flops on.

 

[trivetman]

Thansk Bmore. I saw you had bluestone in some other posts and was wondering if you’d respond.

Anyone out there regret a bluestone coping choice because of the heat...or know anyone with that regret?

 

[PoolGate]

I also have bluestone and same climate as you. It does get fairly hot in the sun but as trivet said, it cools quickly with a little water. It used to bother me more but not anymore. It looks great everyone that sees it likes it. We can deal with a little heat. Once people are in and swimming the splashout keeps it cool enough. No actual burns!

 

[Hoots711]

Ill post our link below. We used black onyx coping.

As others have said, it gets hot, but ur around a pool and a splash of water takes care of it.

In direct sun we need flops on our darker patio but i figure most people do.

The thing is, our coping is kind of like a hot stone feature. We enjoy being in the pool with our arms/head on the coping. They stay warm to the mid evening.
New Rectangular In Ground Build (in progress) Eastern PA

 

[Bloomy125]

We had bluestone. It was hot also. It was great until the mortar started to get loose due to the winter freezes on Long Island. Nobody wanted such a small money job to re-mortar the joints. Just my 2cents.

 

[bmoreswim]

The thing is, our coping is kind of like a hot stone feature. We enjoy being in the pool with our arms/head on the coping. They stay warm to the mid evening.

+1...

 

[trivetman]

We had bluestone. It was hot also. It was great until the mortar started to get loose due to the winter freezes on Long Island. Nobody wanted such a small money job to re-mortar the joints. Just my 2cents.

Is bluestone/natural stone more likely to come loose than cement and brick?