Pool Coping - size/lenght number of pieces

[Vardster]

Hi All,

Our landscape company is installing the coping. we have a 16ft x 24 ft pool with a pool cover that is sunken flush and will be covered by coping too.

Our stone coping comes as 4ft long pieces. How would this normally be laid?

I would assume you run 4 pieces along the width and then 6 along the length, however the landscapers have cut three pieces shorter on the lenght at about 3 ft 9 towards where the pool cover would be which looks strange. If the automatic cover changes how you install at one end would you still not use 4ft pieces till the end and then cut one piece to size to make the last one fit rather than chaning the length two thirds into the pool?

How is this usually installed?

Also if you have a rockface coping, how much should overhang the pool?

Thanks,

 

[kimkats]

Lets look at it like this _____________|_____________|_____ or _______|_______|______ To me the second one looks better. It is more symmetrical. I would go with all three being the same length even if that mean cutting all three of them.

 

[DSMinAtlanta]

I would say there are other factors that will influence where the coping is cut. When our travertine coping was first installed, they did pretty much what you stated where they just put whole pieces all in a row and cut the corners. However, that resulted in having a seam on top of each of the openings for our skimmers and we could see that was a big problem for lots of reasons. When we finally got the PB to meet us and look at it, he agreed it was wrong so they ripped up all of the coping on that side and reinstalled it so that whole pieces were placed over the skimmer openings and then the remaining pieces were cut to fit. If you have a side with nothing in the way like skimmer openings then I'd probably have them start in the center and work towards the corners so it's symmetrical and you end up with mostly whole pieces. We had the same problem with our tile install. Lots of pieces seemingly cut for no reason at all and it looked stupid. We had all of it completely ripped out and they had to start over.