Advanced Pools, Inc, serving Memphis, TN explain swimming pool coping
If you’re a new swimming pool owner you may not know what swimming pool coping is and what it does. If you don’t know what it is, you can ask the swimming pool contractors from Advanced Pools, Inc. to explain it and also explain its importance in your overall swimming pool construction. At its most basic, coping is the edging that surrounds the swimming pool and pulls the look together — aesthetically. If you have a swimming pool and don’t have coping installed, the pool will have an unfinished look to it. Coping adds polish and style, but in addition to that it is an additional layer of safety that provides a smooth edge and adds a non-slip feature. Coping is a cap between the pool walls and the deck.
Pool coping can contrast with your pool or deck design or it can provide a seamless melding of the two. As with pool liners, coping comes in myriad colors, materials and styles. Choose a natural look – formed to resemble stones or pebbles. Choose a colored, poured and stamped (with designs) concrete coping. The style is a personal preference. You will want to talk to your swimming pool remodeler about whether you its best to use cantilever coping or bullnose coping. Cantilever coping is typically used with brick, concrete and stone and extends the lip of the swimming pool; the bullnose style is used with concrete decking and abuts the pool lip.
When you’re shopping for coping – whether for a new construction project or a remodel or renovation – browse your pool builder’s selection of natural stone coping. Natural stone is available in granite, marble, sandstone, marble, limestone or blue stone. If you want a smooth finish you want a honed-stone coping style. Standard pool coping material offers rough texture.
If you opt for concrete coping it will either be formed and poured onsite, or your pool builder will bring precast coping for the project. The concrete coping is one you will need to choose a color or pattern for unless you want to keep it natural and let it weather naturally as well.
Porcelain tiles are also another option that provides myriad patterns and color choices. Keep in mind that brick is the most durable coping material and can also be colored from light gray to beige to dark red and black-browns – remember though, the darker the color the hotter it will be to the feel under the summer sun. Stone coping is becoming a more popular choice because of its durability and the fact that it remains cool to the touch. With the variety of textures and colors, stone is a great match for many pools and spas.
Coping can be part of an overall swimming pool remodel and renovation project and is an accessory that adds to the pool aesthetics as well as being a functional part of the overall structure.
