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here's a pic from the stair landing window of the first 13 in. They start at the skimmer.

I've noticed that some people use the mortar for the joints and others use a latex modified or polymer modified grout...any opinions on what's best or works well and how to apply it without staining the coping?


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Tuck pointing mortar is seriously back breaking and time consuming work. A couple of points -

1. Traditional mortar cracks pretty easily in a few years. Some cracks are cosmetic, some are downright ugly.

2. Wet the stone/coping down thoroughly before filling the mortar joints. The coping will want to suck water out of the mortar and weaken it, saturating the coping will minimize that.

3. Use LOTS of masking tape and clean up mortar spills ASAP. Mortar stuck to a stone/brick/coping looks ugly and is impossible to remove once dried. If I were you, I'd get lots of plastic sheeting to protect those beautiful pieces of coping.

I have traditional mortar joints with my flagstone coping. It was done very well. Even so, there are cracks and chips. In another few years it will all need repointing. I have no idea how the polymer blends hold up, but the traditional mortar looks very nice.

Will be interesting to see which route you take....


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Thanks for the advice!

Yeah...it looks tedious. Makes me glad we didn't use flagstone. I'm going to tape under the joint where it overhangs. I'm also thinking it may be a smart idea to tape on either side of the joint on the top of the stones to protect them.

I wonder if the polymers or epoxies are more flexible and will last longer [emoji848]


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joanniern said:
I wonder if the polymers or epoxies are more flexible and will last longer [emoji848]


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Me too....geez, where's Brian when you need him! Slackers probably outside playing with his flamethrower. I heard his latest project is to coat his ghetto truck with AquaBright so he doesn't need the tarps anymore -

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joanniern said:
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It gets hot in the 909.


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Brian likes to think he's from the 909 but we all know he's straight out of Compton...you can take the playa' out of the 'hood but you can't take the 'hood out of the playa'...


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joanniern said:
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It gets hot in the 909.


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Give me some slack... I'm a 951er.

I was in your neck of the woods last year at the Del Valle training center and I recall it feeling like I was standing on the face of the sun

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Me too....geez, where's Brian when you need him! Slackers probably outside playing with his flamethrower. I heard his latest project is to coat his ghetto truck with AquaBright so he doesn't need the tarps anymore -

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It was a complete failure. The truck burnt to the ground but now its awesome yard art for all my neighbors to enjoy.
 
Tony411LA said:
Wow, Joannie! This really looks great. Mike is doing an amazing job...oh yeah, and you too. :goodjob:

Since I plan on using a similar coping, I will be following closely to see what you decide about grout or mortar.
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Haaaha maybe it would look like I did more work if Mike would post his pictures [emoji12]

I like that Brian stopped in to defend himself but completely forgot to give us some pointers on the coping


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joanniern said:
Lol. What were you doing in Del Valle? Was that where they did the flame thrower training?


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Ha! That would make sense....USAR training, I'm a fire guy as well.

joanniern said:
Haaaha maybe it would look like I did more work if Mike would post his pictures [emoji12]

I like that Brian stopped in to defend himself but completely forgot to give us some pointers on the coping


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How wide are the joints? Maybe I missed that?
 
1/4" is going to be difficult to get enough mortar in there without getting it all over the coping.

Mix the mortar as dry as possible and roll it into the joints then really compress it with a tuck pointer when finishing it. I wouldn't worry about masking anything but keep plenty of clean water and a nearly dry sponge nearby to clean up any slop.

I'm sure our paths have crossed at some point. His picture looked familiar but who knows?
 
bdavis466 said:
1/4" is going to be difficult to get enough mortar in there without getting it all over the coping.

Mix the mortar as dry as possible and roll it into the joints then really compress it with a tuck pointer when finishing it. I wouldn't worry about masking anything but keep plenty of clean water and a nearly dry sponge nearby to clean up any slop.

I'm sure our paths have crossed at some point. His picture looked familiar but who knows?
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Have you used other types of grout besides mortar? Any thoughts?


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