Hey everyone! First time here, but I have a few questions. I'll put some bullet points in.
- The pool is in great shape, but we just got the house and want to make it our own with some new landscaping and surrounds around the pool
- existing concrete "sidewalk" is old and cracked and needs to go
Ideas:
- talked to our longtime paver guy and he wants to put pavers right up to the curtain surrounding the pool - and remove the concrete.
- had a pool guy come out and say that that's probably a bad idea because:
- the safety cover holder things could easily pull a paver up
- it might look really great for a few years, but things will settle and it won't be flat anymore
- putting pavers that close to the pool will just have weeds and grass and all the things come up - even if they were "guaranteed to not do that"
The pool guy had the following ideas:
- put some coping around the pool
- put in a new concrete sidewalk around it, but smaller - 24" to hold the cover and to give a buffer for ground settling.
- pavers can be installed right up to the edge of that new concrete
- the coping / new concrete / pavers can all look however we want and can match and still look great
What do people think? I tend to follow the pool guy's line of thought and trust him.
OH - and the diving board i think will be going away at the end of the season and the conduit for the lights will move over out to the fence.
- The pool is in great shape, but we just got the house and want to make it our own with some new landscaping and surrounds around the pool
- existing concrete "sidewalk" is old and cracked and needs to go
Ideas:
- talked to our longtime paver guy and he wants to put pavers right up to the curtain surrounding the pool - and remove the concrete.
- had a pool guy come out and say that that's probably a bad idea because:
- the safety cover holder things could easily pull a paver up
- it might look really great for a few years, but things will settle and it won't be flat anymore
- putting pavers that close to the pool will just have weeds and grass and all the things come up - even if they were "guaranteed to not do that"
The pool guy had the following ideas:
- put some coping around the pool
- put in a new concrete sidewalk around it, but smaller - 24" to hold the cover and to give a buffer for ground settling.
- pavers can be installed right up to the edge of that new concrete
- the coping / new concrete / pavers can all look however we want and can match and still look great
What do people think? I tend to follow the pool guy's line of thought and trust him.
OH - and the diving board i think will be going away at the end of the season and the conduit for the lights will move over out to the fence.
