Precast Coping or Poured In Place

[SandyLA]

In the process of remodeling the pool and deck. I'm planning on poured concrete for the deck, white plaster pool lining and blue water line tiles. Does anyone have suggestions for the coping? The curves are a bit of a challenge, i.e. a rectangular pool would be a lot easier in terms of finding precast coping. I'm attaching photos of the Existing and Ideas I like.

Looking for suggestions on what to do with the COPING. I'm hesitant about poured in place because of the cracking issue. IDEAS anyone?

Perplexed. Thanks in advance.

 

[ajw22]

Here are examples of precast coping around curves done by @jimmythegreek

Precast gives you cleaner edges. You need a mason who will take the time to get the cuts around the curves nice and even.

 

[AQUA~HOLICS]

Poured in place is most popular in So Cal, haven’t done a pre cast in years due to it dates the pool if the wrong material is used.

 

[Cena_sea]

I don't know how they will do straight precast around curves but I did remember a meeting with a designer (not the one we went with) who warned against poured concrete coping due to recent quality issues they'd had so it can really depend on the quality of the concrete installer. That made it so for all the other builders we met with we were interested in stone coping. If we had done cement coping my builder used stepstone, inc coping and they do have a square modular option.

Edit: I pmed you a link to pics here of that coping.