Local contractor put in new waterline tile and poured-in-place concrete coping. For reference the old coping was a full deck cantilevered concrete, but the soil prep was bad so that it sank and cracked severely and needed to be replaced. I wanted some feedback on the coping work, and the waterline tile.
Concrete Coping:
We wanted the coping to be "clean and modern." We selected a Stegmeier regular cantilevered form (link here) that we felt would look fairly modern, but not dangerously squared off. The original concrete cantilevered coping had seams every 6-8ft.
Here's what the newly poured coping looks like: (NOTE: This is after I did some clean up with a diamond wheel.)
We were not expecting this, especially the number of seams and the overall "roundness" of everything. My wife said it looks like something "from the Flintstones." The contractor said they put joints every 2ft because he says otherwise it cracks. They also ran rebar along the top of the entire pool shell, parallel to the wall. Again, because of cracking according to the contractor. Ironically one of the segments has a crack right down the middle of it running perpendicular to the pool wall.
Waterline Tile:
The waterline tile is not perfect, but it generally looks acceptable. I've already had some back-and-forth with the contractor on this and had to replace a few tiles because they were poorly placed. The tile is 6" x 6" glass. I recently bought a Dewalt crossline level and figured I'd check how level/even it is. I leveled the laser, and marked up where the laser hit on pieces of tape. I believe I've read the general rule for vertical tolerance of waterline tile across the entire pool is ±1/8", which seems reasonable to me.
Here's the results. The black line is where the laser level line hit. I went back and verified the results using a liquid level I put together using 20ft of vinyl tubing:
See 2nd post for pictures because I don't know how to post more pics.
Concrete Coping:
We wanted the coping to be "clean and modern." We selected a Stegmeier regular cantilevered form (link here) that we felt would look fairly modern, but not dangerously squared off. The original concrete cantilevered coping had seams every 6-8ft.
Here's what the newly poured coping looks like: (NOTE: This is after I did some clean up with a diamond wheel.)
We were not expecting this, especially the number of seams and the overall "roundness" of everything. My wife said it looks like something "from the Flintstones." The contractor said they put joints every 2ft because he says otherwise it cracks. They also ran rebar along the top of the entire pool shell, parallel to the wall. Again, because of cracking according to the contractor. Ironically one of the segments has a crack right down the middle of it running perpendicular to the pool wall.
Waterline Tile:
The waterline tile is not perfect, but it generally looks acceptable. I've already had some back-and-forth with the contractor on this and had to replace a few tiles because they were poorly placed. The tile is 6" x 6" glass. I recently bought a Dewalt crossline level and figured I'd check how level/even it is. I leveled the laser, and marked up where the laser hit on pieces of tape. I believe I've read the general rule for vertical tolerance of waterline tile across the entire pool is ±1/8", which seems reasonable to me.
Here's the results. The black line is where the laser level line hit. I went back and verified the results using a liquid level I put together using 20ft of vinyl tubing:
See 2nd post for pictures because I don't know how to post more pics.
