How to join deck and coping/bondbeam?

[repairman]

Sorry I can't upload pics at this time for some unknown reason (I've done it before) but I have a 15 x 35' rectangular pool between my house and garage; so there is 35' of 3' wide walkway between the pool and garage and 4' wide walkway between pool and house. I broke out the concrete deck but saved the pieces. I'm going to stain and reinstall the pieces with mortar between them. (like flagstone or pavers)

How do I do the borders? Mortar up to the coping/bondbeam and gargage and house foundations, or use mastic or some other way?

(I posted this on my longer thread "what size pipe to plumb..." in this forum but got no reply)

 

[PoolguyinCT]

Photos?? Concrete or liner pool?

 

[mknauss]

Most pools have a filler cord then mastic placed in the joint between coping and deck.

Search 'mastic'. You should come up with some threads to review.

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Also. Pavers do not use mortar. We have pavers and have polymeric sand in between them. Not sure how that would work with irregular slabs of concrete.

 

[repairman]

Ok. the problem uploading the pics was my old wifi modem I guess.

Pictured is the walk between my pool and house that is about 4' wide. A similar walk is on the other side of the pool, but 3' wide, between the pool and garage. Then, on the shallow end and deep end I have more area.

Also pictured is a pile of broken out concrete which I will reinstall. I will dye them light sand and darker sand and maybe some muted green. I don't know about whether to dye the "grout" between them, or the method yet? Any experience or pics on dying them separate and having a uniform grout color or installing it all and then dying? Does the polymeric sand harden so I won't get sand on me walking or lying on the deck? and does it take dye like concrete? I will probably have to experiment.

I will look up mastic and filler cord. Thanks!

 

[mknauss]

The polymeric sand does harden together, but remains porous. So cannot be colored.

The sand is only good for up to about 1/4" wide. So not sure how it would work with irregular chunks of concrete.

Are you sure it would not only be easier but cheaper to just pour new concrete?

Take care.

 

[AftonJeeper]

There are a couple manufacturers that make polymeric sand for wide joints now. I don't remember the brand name of the sand we used but a quick google search turned up a few: SRW Products—SRW X-TREME Wide Joint Polymeric Sand

Mine is a little over a year old and I have had no cracks, ants, or weeds yet. Some of the gaps are well over an inch across.