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Old 01-12-2007, 11:49 AM
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Fiberglass pools suck for bullnose or any other type of paver coping.

I did a job about 5 years ago....never will attempt one again.

It was a fiberglass pool, random shaped, with stairs, seats, and what not, all sorts of funny angles to cut. We used techo blok neptune cap (cap that has the granitex finishe and smoothed face)

The pool was horrible. From one side to the other, you could see variances between the water level and the top of the fibershell of up to 3".

The pool had a concrete pad poured around it, flush with the top of the fiberglass pool coping. We used a combination of paver glue and then epoxy. The glue did not stick very well to the fiberglass, and because of the width of the coping and overhang of the cap, there wasn't much to glue on the back end to the the poured concrete pad that we were overlaying with pavers. I was not very happy with the whole situation, but that was what we were given to deal with.

My best advice. Get a concrete guy and do a cantilever concrete pour for the coping. That would be the only way I would approach one of those hunks of junks again. I guess you could just do a 3-4 ft concrete apron around the outside also, flush with the backside of the coping, or maybe pavers flush with the backside fo the coping, but cutting will be a pita with all the curves and funny juts that fiberglass pools seem to have.

steve

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