How To Repair River Rock Pool Deck

Have you thought well-nigh interlocking deck tiles? Sounds like a much more than manageable DIY task to me. There are lots of woods patterns, but they come in granite and other materials, too.

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Pat on Sep 12, 2022
@Douglas Chase Hi Doug,are interlocking tiles glue down or free floating?I am merely looking for something that will cover the river stone,non having to remove the rock and will non suspension the bank,Cheers for responding-do nearly home centers sell these type tiles? Pat
@Pat The dazzler of them is that they are free-floating. (You could fifty-fifty take them with yous if you moved.) Your river rock would but act as a flat base for them. I've seen them for as low as $5 a square foot. I doubt yous'd find pavers for that price.

Krsy on Sep 13, 2022

Oh Pat, I experience your hurting! We have river rock just the same from the early lxxx's and information technology has tufts of weeds growing upwards through it. Since we demand to besides resurface our pool we had quite a few contractors come in and about would not even entertain the idea of taking the river rock up, wanting to place pavers on top. We want information technology gone as information technology is not well adhered to the concrete slab underneath in most places. Finally found a contractor willing to do it, but we were ready to slowly practice the chore ourselves if nosotros had to. Anyway, we are going for a nice stamped concrete instead of pavers, cheaper, easier to maintain and I really like the look of the light color and "flagstone" type finish we have called. Am expecting information technology to terminal a long long fourth dimension. Information technology depends how adept at DIY you are, I know my married man could "do it" simply since nosotros are having the pool resurfaced, it just was easier (and quicker) to have the whole thing taken care of by a contractor. I will eventually be posting pictures (before and after) when the chore is done. Best of luck! :-)

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James on Sep 21, 2022
Did yous ever get this washed and how did the pavers or tiles exercise over the onetime river rock?
What contractor did you lot use? I can't find a contractor who volition come up to Lehigh Acres. We have river rock also and the hurricane acquired fries in the lesser of the puddle and the decorative tiles surrounding so work has to be done on the pool also.

Jill on Sep thirteen, 2022

Start off, no matter what you make up one's mind to use to remodel your patio with you should use something to get rid of the mold. Otherwise, information technology merely continue getting worse every bit time goes by, even with pavers and such. Why not just have it resurfaced after dealing with the mold. All you demand is some blazon of aggrate or pebbles and an epoxy. Y'all don't even need to remove the onetime 1. If there are any places where the stone is coming up, just loosen it away advisedly, and so simply lay the new stuff on top. It will also hide the crack you are currently seeing and allow the h2o to drain thru if you lot put it on right.

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Who did yous find to do the job. I can't find a contractor who will come up to Lehigh Acres.
Jill on Nov 11, 2022

I alive in CA, then giving a contractors referral is meaningless for you lot. But I did mine myself.
Mark on Jan 18, 2022

Hi Jill,

We are in San Diego and desire to comprehend up our river rock pool deck. Would you heed sharing what yous did and how it went? Thanks

My back lanai was the aforementioned, screened in and occasionally rain and some mold. Had not slip tile put over information technology and it looks and cleans beautifully. Some other solution, my pool deck was the same river rock, which you had to seal every year and repair, had a contractor come in and he put a skim coat of concete all over with slight pattern and then painted information technology with pool deck paint, at present I only take to paint every 2 years only because it does non have a screen over.

James on Sep 21, 2022

Then you'd recommend the concrete sprayed over the river rock on the covered lanai past my pool? I am so tired of the upkeep and weeds and dirty look of the river rock

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