Frame for the deck

While the tile guys were in the pool completing their tasks, another team was creating the forms for concrete work that would outline the brick paver deck and the concrete coping that marks the edges of the pool itself.

Our pool back in Vancouver had a slab concrete deck - and the coping was a simple strip of curved PVC pipe. The only alternative at the time was a to set concrete tiles on the edge of the pool themselves - sealed in concrete themselves but overlapping the edge of the pool.

Newer technology now allows for creating a seamless poured concrete edge that cantilevers over the edge of the pool - with the concrete itself being textured and then painted to provide a decorative border.

It took a crew only a few hours to create the forms for this poured concrete edge. These forms required steel rebar and then another inspection from the county before the actual pouring could begin.