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Swimming Pool Coping
Inground Pool Coping Choices

Swimming pool coping is the material that edges your pool. It's really important that you choose one that goes best with the rest of your swimming pool decking.

The coping can either match your swimming pool decking or it can be another material. Often the edge on the water side is rounded for easy gripping while in the pool, but that is not a necessity. Here are some paving materials and some copings you might select.

Inground Pool Coping

Here are some excellent paving materials for you to consider.

Paver Copings

There are both narrow pavers and wider ones that can be used for pool coping. The narrow ones are often 12" long and the same width as the pavers but there are also other widths too, depending on the particular paver and the company. The wider ones make more of a contrast with the pavers around the pool.

Here are some paver coping pictures.

Paver copings can contrast the decking.

Pavers can blend with pool copings.

Travertine - A Natural Stone Coping

Depending on where you purchase the travertine from, there are different coping sizes available. They are ordered as bullnose travertine; they are rounded along the water's edge.

Travertine coping is lovely.

Travertine copings can have a bullnose edge.

Concrete Copings

Concrete pool coping can be part of the entire pour and come up to the water's edge or it can be a separate coping. Masons have differing opinions on this. I feel it can be done either way, depending on the look you want.

concrete coping can be separate.

This shows concrete swimming pool coping on a vinyl liner pool. It was a separate poor. The coping is a different color than the rest of the swimming pool decking. You may like this or may prefer the look of one continuous mass of paving without the break.

Natural Stone Pool Coping

If you are doing a natural stone pool decking, you will want to do the same for the coping. Here is a photo of one that is seamless. It's beautiful, but note how the edge is not rounded. This is something that may or may not be important to you.
Note: Stone copings can be hot (except travertine) so be aware of this if you are considering stone.

Natural stone pool coping is beautiful.

Natural stone copings can have a rough edge.

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