Pool coping and deck installation

[BMerrill]

The pool builder is complete with his portion of the project.
I will be installing the coping and the pool deck.
Both will be Techno-Bloc pavers.
The fiberglass pool has a 3' concrete bond beam around the perimeter.

Coping?
Prefered adhesive (thinset, mortar, Flexlock or ______ brand adhesive) to use to bond the coping to the fiberglass and concrete?
What to use to fill the joints between the coping?
What to use between the coping and the deck pavers?

Pavers?
Planning to set the pavers on a 1" sand bedding course with a 6" CABC compacted base.
Sand/polymeric sand will be used to fill the joints.
Question here is the transition of the pavers from being set on the concrete bond beam to the sand base.
What would be the best practice here?
Concerned the pavers on the sand base will settle enough to create a lip/dip/unevenness.

 

[ajw22]

Maybe @jimmythegreek has ideas

 

[jimmythegreek]

Ideally the concrete ring would have been smaller, just enough to set the coping on and then a normal DGA base for pavers. Your issue now is there is no way to elevate the pavers. Once you adhere coping you are forced to also adhere the pavers to the slab then transition to a setting bed. Your gonna either cut the concrete back or figure out a pattern and trim the concrete to end on full paver then transition to base install. If the PB knew you were doing pavers he should have planned better for the decking

 

[YippeeSkippy]

Can you show us a picture? I'm curious as I've never seen a concrete band that big.

 

[BMerrill]

Thank you for the replies.

Some background on the bond beam.
The pool manufacturers engineer drawings had 3 details for the bond beam: Poured coping with integrated bond beam, expansive soils, and paver overlay.

The paver overlay detail called for a 1’-2” wide coping (bond beam) min thickness 8” with 3- #4 rebars. The notes added cross tie bars @ 24-36” intervals to extend 3’ from the waters edge to the bonding copper wire. So they poured it 3’ wide from the waters edge so all of the rebar would be in concrete.

The coping paver is 14”x28”. The field pavers are 20”x20” and will be set in a staggered pattern.
The linear lines run parallel to the long side of the pool.

Suggestions received outside of TFP:
1) Set the sand higher to allow for settling.
2) Replace the sand bedding course with thin layer of fine gravel screenings which would not settle like the sand.

 

[BMerrill]

3’ bond beam.

 

[jimmythegreek]

Very much overkill for a paver application. It just needs a locking collar to hold pool in shape. A bond wire around the pool would have been fine and passed any inspection. Fiber mesh alleviates any issue with rebar and bonding. If these pavers are set with a mallet just set them a little higher and use concrete sand above your base. Take the time to properly compact the sub base and your paver base mechanically. I would just wet set the pavers behind the coping at this point then transition to base type install

 

[Bill1974]

Depending on how expansive the soil is outside of the bond beam, you make need to reset a few pavers that are on the edge of the bond beam every few years. May even want to keep a few extras incase any crack.