What part of the country are you located?
What is the size of the pool deck dimensions?
What type of soil is below the deck to be and is the area flat or hilly?
Regardless of what type of aesthetic look you are trying to achieve, you want to make sure the sub-surface is properly prepared.
In our part of the country, there's two types of concrete pool decks: those that are cracked and those that are going to crack.
My pool deck is about 1300 sq ft of 1.25" thick tumbled travertine in the Versaille pattern. It took 3 days to dig out 10 inches of clay.gumbo soil and remove, then 2 days compacting 8" of aggregate, then 1.5 days laying the stones along w the Portland cement and fine sand...5 days prep, 1.5 days laying stone...
What is the size of the pool deck dimensions?
What type of soil is below the deck to be and is the area flat or hilly?
Regardless of what type of aesthetic look you are trying to achieve, you want to make sure the sub-surface is properly prepared.
In our part of the country, there's two types of concrete pool decks: those that are cracked and those that are going to crack.
My pool deck is about 1300 sq ft of 1.25" thick tumbled travertine in the Versaille pattern. It took 3 days to dig out 10 inches of clay.gumbo soil and remove, then 2 days compacting 8" of aggregate, then 1.5 days laying the stones along w the Portland cement and fine sand...5 days prep, 1.5 days laying stone...
